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Educational Records | | 1995 | M.S. (Physical Chemistry) Department of Molecular Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan | 1998 | Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry) Department of Molecular Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan | 2005 | Habilitation (Experimental Physics) Department of Physics, Technical University Munich, Germany | | | Professional Career | | 1997 | Visiting PhD student, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (Host: Prof. P.K.J. Kinnunen) | 1998 – 2001 | Postdoc, Department of Physics (Biophysics Lab), Technical University Munich, Germany (Advisor: Prof. E. Sackmann) | 1998, 1999 | Visiting scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany (Host: Prof. G. Wegner) | 2000 – 2002 | Guest scholar, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA (Hosts: Profs. A.P. Gast, G.G. Fuller, S.G. Boxer) | 2001 – 2005 | Independent group leader (Biofunctional Interface Group), Department of Physics, Technical University Munich, Germany | 2004 | Invited lecturer, Department of Physics and Center of Excellence, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (Hosts: Profs. H. Seto, K. Yoshikawa) | 2005 – | Professor, Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany | 2007 – | Member, Center for Quantitative Analysis of Molecular and Cellular Network (BIOQUANT), Heidelberg, Germany | 2007 – | Member, International Graduate School “Molecular and Cellular Biology”, Heidelberg, Germany | 2007 – | Associated faculty member, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany | | | Fellowships | | 1993 – 1996 | Graduate student fellowship, Japan | 1997 – 1998 | PhD/post-doc fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, Japan) | 1997 | Visiting PhD student fellowship, Center for International Mobility, Finnish Academy (Finland) | 1999 – 2001 | Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) fellowship (Germany) | 2001 – 2005 | Emmy
Noether fellowship for young principal investigators (first foreign
award winner), the German Science Foundation (DFG, Germany) | | | International Exchange | | 2000 – 2006 | Member, French-German Collaborative Network, “Complex Fluids in Two and a Half Dimension” | 2001 | External exchange partner, NSF-MRSEC Center “Center of Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies” | 2006 – | Member, Canadian Advanced Foods and Materials Network and Centers of Excellence |
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