
Roland Beckmann
Gene Center, LMU
Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Quality Control and mRNA Surveillance, Protein Targeting and Translocation, Ribosome Biogenesis

Dieter Braun
Physics, LMU
Origin of Life, RNA world, protocells, molecular evolution

Erwin Frey
Physics, LMU
Pattern formation, self-assembly and self-organisation, active matter, stochastic processes, evolution, collective phenomena, non-equilibrium physics

Karl-Peter Hopfner
Gene Center, LMU
Cryo-EM and crystallography, Structural Genome Biology, Innate Immune RNA and DNA Sensing, Therapeutic Protein Engineering

Ralf Jungmann
Physics, LMU
MPI of Biochemistry
Single-molecule biophysics, Super-resolution microscopy, Spatial omics, DNA nanotechnology

Don Lamb
Chemistry and Pharmacy, LMU
Fluorescence Spectroscopy &
Microscopy, Single Molecule Biophysics,
Correlation Spectroscopy, Single Particle Tracking
Single Virus Tracing

Tim Liedl
Physic, LMU
DNA Nanotechnology, Plasmonics

Olivia Merkel
Chemistry and Pharmacy, LMU
Nucleic acid formulation and delivery, cell and tumor targeting, in vivo and ex vivo models of the lung

Joachim Rädler
Physics, LMU
Lipid nanoparticles, physics of gene expression and cell migration, live cell imaging on arrays and biofabrication

Steffen Rulands
Physics, LMU
Non-equilibrium statistical physics; Collective processes in development, ageing, and cancer; Genomics; Machine learning

Petra Schwille
MPI of Biochemistry
Bottom-up synthetic biology, protein self-organization, membrane biophysics, microsystems technology, soft robotics

Friedhelm Serwane
Physics, LMU
Retina organoids, mechanobiology, tissue mechanics

Philip Tinnefeld
Chemistry and Pharmacy, LMU
Single-molecule spectroscopy, superresolution microscopy, DNA nanotechnology, biosensing

Oliver Trapp
Chemistry and Pharmacy, LMU
Prebiotic Chemistry, Chemical Complexity, Reaction Networks, Chirality

Stefan Zahler
Chemistry and Pharmacy, LMU
2D and 3D cell culture models, Angiogenesis, Mechanosignaling, Extracellular Matrix, Cell migration