Hendrik Dietz

Hendrik Dietz (born December 18, 1977 in Dresden ) is a German biophysicist .

Life

Dietz studied physics in Paderborn , Saragossa and at the LMU Munich . In 2004 he completed his studies with a diploma. He then became a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich . In 2007 he was with a work on the mechanical anisotropy of proteins in single-molecule experiments Dr. rer. nat. PhD. He then spent two years as a postdoc at Harvard University . Since summer 2009 he has been Professor of Biophysics at the Technical University of Munich.

Dietz's research focus is DNA nanotechnology . He researches how the structure of DNA can be used for technological purposes.

Awards

• Arnold Sommerfeld Prize (2010)
• Engelhorn Research Award (2012)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2015)
• Corresponding member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2019)

Fonts (selection)

• Mechanical anisotropy of proteins in single molecule experiments Munich 2007 (dissertation)
• Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes (together with Shawn Douglas , Tim Liedl , Björn Högberg , F. Graf, William Shih ) in Nature . No. 459, 2009, pp. 414-418.
• Folding DNA into twisted and curved nanoscale shapes (together with Shawn Douglas, William Shih) in Science . No. 325, 2009, pp. 725-730.
• Synthetic lipid membrane channels formed by designed DNA nanostructures (together with Martin Langecker , Vera Arnaut , Thomas G. Martin , Jonathan List , Stephan Renner , Michael Mayer , Friedrich Simmel ) in Science . No. 338, 2012, pp. 932-936.
• The cryo-EM structure of a 3D DNA-origami object (together with Xiao-Chen Bai , Thomas G. Martin , Sjors HW Scheres ) in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA . No. 109, 2012, pp. 20012-20017.
• Rapid folding of DNA into nanoscale shapes at constant temperature (together with Jean-Philippe Sobczak , Thomas G. Martin , Thomas Gerling ) in Science . No. 338, 2012, pp. 1458-1461.

Web links

• CV on the website of the TU Munich
• Profile on the website of the TU Munich
• Hendrik Dietz on the website of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize