Speakers

Professor Frank Jülicher is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and is a professor of biophysics at the Technical University of Dresden, in Germany since 2002. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Cologne in 1994 under the supervision of Professor Reinhard Lipowsky. Following postdoctoral research at Simon Fraser University in Canada, and at Institut Curie and ESPCI in France, he was appointed a CNRS research position at Physico-Chimie Curie, Institut Curie in 1998. In 2000, he received his habilitation degree from the University of Paris VII. He has served as an editorial board member of the New Journal of Physics, Physical Biology, eLife and as Editor in chief of the European Physical Journal E.

The major research interests of his group are theoretical approaches to dynamic processes in cells and tissues. This includes in particular the study of active cellular processes such as cellular oscillations, cytoskeletal dynamics, cell division and cell motility as well as the biophysics of hearing. Furthermore his group studies morphogenetic processes that involve the collective behavior of cells and tissue dynamics.