As a physicist by training, my professional life began with biophysical studies of an archaic form of photosynthesis as practiced by halophilic bacteria using the proton-pumping membrane protein bacteriorhodopsin. The doctoral thesis and subsequent positions were devoted to the technical harvesting of electrical energy from solar radiation and photovoltaic thin film materials. Since the beginning of the millennium, I have been dealing with the interface between biological and semiconducting materials. In the Joint Laboratory Bioelectronics of IHP and TU Berlin, I am investigating the possibilities of microelectronics for biomedicine and biotechnology.
2012 …
Joint Lab Bioelectronics, IHP Frankfurt/Oder & TU Berlin
Microelectronics for applications in biotechnology
2004 …
IHP – Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik, Frankfurt/Oder
Biomaterial-semiconductor hybrids like biosensors for glucose
2000 – 2003
Fraunhofer Institut für Schicht- und Oberflächentechnik, Braunschweig
Development of metal-metaloxide nanocomposite coatings
1995 – 2000
Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin, Photovoltaik
Optimisation of thin film semiconductors for photovoltaics
1991 – 1995
Ingenieurbüro für Solartechnik, Berlin
Planning and construction of photovoltaic and solar-thermal systems
1987 – 1991
Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Solare Energetik
Doctoral thesis on the sulphur deficiency in iron pyrite FeS2
1985 – 1986
Physics Department, FU Berlin, AG Prof. Maarten Heyn
Diploma thesis on the 2D crystallisation of membrane protein Bacteriorhodopsin
2006
Habilitation in Experimental Physics at BTU Cottbus, “Atomic Puzzle – Growth-Structure-Property Relations in Thin Solid Films for Advanced Technology Applications”
1990
Dr. rer. nat. from Fachbereich Physik of FU Berlin, Thesis title: “Zur Struktur des Schwefeldefizits in Eisenpyrit”
1986
Physics diploma at FU Berlin: “Untersuchungen zur Bildung des zweidimensionalen Gitters in der Purpurmembran von Halobacterium halobium”
Prof. Daniel Chateigner, Texture in Materials & Combined Analysis, Caen
Prof. Christoph Genzel, Residual Stress Analysis, Helmholtz Berlin
Prof. Fred Lisdat, Biosystem Technology, UAS Wildau
Prof. Peter Neubauer, Bioprocess Technology, TU Berlin
Prof. Michael Schöning, Labor für Chemo- und Biosensorik, UAS Aachen
Dr. Stewart Smith, School of Engineering, University Edinburgh
Prof. Dr. Roland Thewes, Sensor and Actuator Systems, Technical University Berlin
Prof. Dr. Mario Birkholz
Joint Lab Bioelectronics
c/o IHP, Im Technologiepark 25
15236 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and
c/o Institut für Biotechnologie, TU Berlin, ACK24, Ackerstr. 76, 13355 Berlin, Germany