Personal Data
- 2005 - 2009: PhD at the Biotechnology Center of TU Dresden in the research group of Prof. Daniel Müller
- 2010: research scientist at the Biotechnology Center of TU Dresden
- since 2011: research scientist at Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden
Fields of Work
• Understand the functional principles of biofouling and biofouling resistance (in nature)
• Develop novel (amphiphilic) biofouling resistant surfaces
• Application of atomic force microscopy-based methods to various fields of research; including (quantitative) imaging, (single cell) force spectroscopy, nanoindentation
Publications
- Multiphasic microgel-in-gel materials to recapitulate cellular mesoevironments in vitro more Biomaterials Science 2020 (2020) 101-108
- Temperature-Induced mechanomodulation of interpenetrating networks of star poly(ethylene glycol)-heparin and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) more ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11 (2019) 41862-41874
- Recapitulating bone development events in a customised bioreactor through interplay of oxygen tension, medium pH, and systematic differentiation approaches more Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (2019) Early View
- Polyacrylamide bead sensors for in vivo quantification of cell-scale stress in zebrafish development more bioRxiv the Preprint Server for Biology (2019) article preprint
- Intrafibrillar, bone-mimetic collagen mineralization regulates breast cancer cell adhesion and migration more Biomaterials 198 (2019) 95-106
- Impact of oral astringent stimuli on surface charge and morphology of the protein-rich pellicle at the tooth-saliva interphase more Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 174 (2019) 451-458
- 3D culture method for alzheimers disease modeling reveals interleukin-4 rescues A beta 42-induced Loss of human neural stem cell plasticity more Developmental Cell 46 (2018) 85-101
- Soft and flexible poly(ethylene glycol) nanotubes for local drug delivery more Nanoscale 10 (2018) 8413-8421
- Layer-by-layer assembly of heparin and peptide-polyethylene glycol conjugates to form hybrid nanothin films of biomatrices more ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10 (2018) 14264-14270
- Zebrafish in-vivo screening for compounds amplifying hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells: - Preclinical validation in human CD34+stem and progenitor cells more Scientific Reports 7 (2017) ID12084
- A novel protocol to prepare cell probes for the quantification of microbial adhesion and biofilm initiation on structured bioinspired surfaces using AFM for single-cell force spectroscopy more Engineering in Life Science 17 (2017) 833-840
- Macromolecular crowding for tailoring tissue-derived fibrillated matrices more Acta Biomaterialia 55 (2017) 109-119
- Cell-instructive starPEG-heparin-collagen composite matrices more Acta Biomaterialia 53 (2017) 70-80
- Hybrid hairy Janus particles as novel building blocks for antifouling surfaces more ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8 (2016) 32591-32603
- Macroporous biohybrid cryogels for co-housing pancreatic islets with mesenchymal stromal cells more Acta Biomaterialia 44 (2016) 178-187
- Aligned fibrillar collagen matrices more Wiley 1 (2016) Chapter 27, 340-354
- The impact of structure dimensions on initial bacterial adhesion more Biomaterials Science 2016 (2016) 1074-1078
- Breast cancer cells compete with hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells for intercellular adhesion molecule 1-mediated binding to the bone marrow microenvironment more Carcinogenesis 37 (2016) 759-767
- EphrinB2/EphA4-mediated activation of endothelial cells increases monocyte adhesion more Molecular Immunology 68 (2015) 648-656
- Extracellular matrix deposition of bone marrow stroma enhanced by macromolecular crowding more Biomaterials 73 (2015) 60-69
- Phenotypic, morphological and adhesive differences of human hematopoietic progenitor cells cultured on murine versus human mesenchymal stromal cells more Scientific Reports 5 (2015) Article number: 15680
- Polymeric coatings to fight biofouling more Springer (2015) 1944-1950
- Comprehensive characterization of well-defined silk fibroin surfaces: Toward multitechnique studies of surface modification effects more Biointerphases 10 (2015) 029501
- Multilayer hydrogel coatings to combine hemocompatibility and antimicrobial activity more Biomaterials 56 (2015) 198-205
- Multi-parametric hydrogels support 3D in vitro bioengineered microenvironment models of tumour angiogenesis more Biomaterials 53 (2015) 609-620