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Friedrich C. Simmel (born 1970) is a German biophysicist and professor at the Technical University Munich. He is a researcher in the field of DNA nanotechnology and is best known for his work on DNA nanomachines and dynamic DNA-based systems. Simmel received a PhD in experimental
physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...
from the
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...
in 1999. From 2000 to 2002 he was a PostDoctoral researcher at
Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...
. He joined the faculty of the Technical University Munich as a full professor in 2007..


Awards and memberships

* 2006 Human frontier science program (HFSP) young investigator award * 2009 Vice President (2009) of the International Society of Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering (ISNSCE) * 2010 President (2009) of the International Society of Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering (ISNSCE) * 2013 Elected Member of the National Academy of Science and Technology (acatech)


References


Works


''DNA-based self-assembly of chiral plasmonic nanostructures with tailored optical response''
Anton Kuzyk, Robert Schreiber, Zhiyuan Fan, Günther Pardatscher, Eva-Maria Roller, Alexander Högele, Friedrich C. Simmel, Alexander O. Govorov, Tim Liedl, Nature, 483, 311-314, 2012


External links


"Friedrich C. Simmel"
''Scientific Commons''
"Friedrich C. Simmel"
, ''TU Munich home page''

, ''Article on a website run by the German Department of Education and Research (German language)'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Simmel, Friedrich 1970 births Living people DNA nanotechnology people German biophysicists 21st-century German physicists Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich