Dieter Braun (physicist)

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Dieter Braun (born August 19, 1970 in Villingen-Schwenningen ) is a German physicist .

life and work

Braun studied physics at the University of Ulm and the Technical University of Munich with a diploma in 1997. He received his doctorate summa cum laude at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in 2000 ( Capacitive Stimulation of Mammalian Cells on Silicon Chips imaged at Optical Resolution with Voltage-Sensitive Dyes ) , was a post-doctoral student at Rockefeller University from 2000 to 2003 and completed his habilitation in physics in Munich in 2007. He is professor for biophysics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He has also been a member of the Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) since 2007 .

In 2010 he received the Starting Grant from the European Research Council, worth 1.5 million euros . In 2011 Braun received the Klung Wilhelmy Weberbank Prizefor his knowledge of the origin of life on earth more than three billion years ago. "

Private

Braun is married and has two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dieter Braun: Capacitive Stimulation of Mammalian Cells on Silicon Chips imaged at Optical Resolution with Voltage-Sensitive Dyes (PDF; 20.6 MB)
  2. Klung Wilhelmy Weberbank Prize 2011 goes to biophysics professor Dieter Braun at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de); Retrieved October 23, 2011