Funding

Current Projects

• DFG SPP 2332 (09/2025 - 08/2028)
  Physik des Parasitismus
  "Function of microtubule inner proteins (MIPs) in Plasmodium morphology and mechanics throughout its life cycle"

• EU Marie Curie ITN (03/2020 - 02/2024)
  Motorized Nanomachines: Fundamentals, Innovations, Applications (MonaLisa)
  Workpackage Leader and Doctoral Candidates 1 & 2
• DFG (06/2024 - 05/2027)
  Three-dimensional motion and torque generation of mitotic motors
• DFG (10/2023 - 03/2027)
  Rekonstruktion der mineralischen Morphogenese in membranumschlossenen Kompartimenten
• DFG - RTG 2767 (04/2022 - 03/2028)
  Supracolloidal Structures
  Project Leader A5
• DFG - Cluster of Excellence (01/2019 - 12/2032)
  Physics of Life (PoL)
  Co-PI

(Selected) Completed Grants

• DFG - SFB 1027 (01/2017 – 12/2024)
  Physical modeling of non-equilibrium processes in biological systems
  Project Leader A8 - Bidirectional transport of intracellular cargo
  Grant Number: SFB 1027
• DFG Graduate School (11/2012 - 12/2018)
  DD International Graduate School of Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB)
  Co-Speaker
• EU Marie Curie ITN (03/2020 - 02/2024)
  Artificial Molecular Machines (ArtMoMa)
  Workpackage Leader and Early Stage Researchers 9 & 14
  Grant Number: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, 860434
• DAAD - A new passage to India - Deutsch Indische Hochschulkooperation  (03/2019 - 12/2023)
  A new passage to India
  Principle Investigator
  Grant Number: 57478060
• BMBF - MetaZIK (07/2019-12/2022)
  Optische Zell-Diagnose und Manipulation (OpitZED)
  Subproject Leader
  Grant Number: 03Z22E51
• Volkswagen Foundation - Integration of Molecular Components in Functional Macroscopic Systems (08/2018 - 10/2022)
  Electrical Detection of Biomolecular Transport Systems
  Co-Speaker and Project Leader
  Grant Number: 93439/93440 
• EU Horizon 2020 - FET (01/2017 - 06/2022)
  Parallel network-based biocomputation: technological baseline, scale-up and innovation ecosystem (Bio4Comp)
  Work Package and Project Leader
  Grant Number: 732482
• DFG - Excellence Cluster "Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden" (2012 - 2018)
  Research Path Leader and Seed Grants (Biomolecular Assembled Computing and Chemical Information Processing)
• EU FP7 (2014 - 2016)
  Parallel computing based on designed networks explored by self-propelled, biological agents (ABACUS)
• Minna-James-Heinemann Foundation (2010 - 2016)
  Research Award
• DFG FOR 877 (2012-2015)
  From Local Constraints to Macroscopic Transport
• DFG W3 Heisenberg Programme (2010 - 2015)
  W3 Heisenberg Professorship
• ERC Starting Grant (2009 - 2014)
  Biomolecular Motor Systems - From Cellular Function to Nanotechnological Applications
• Volkswagen Foundation (2009 - 2012)
  Towards molecular engines: cooperative coupling of molecular motors in engineered environments

• EU FP7 (2009 - 2012)
  Molecular Motors-Based Nano Devices (MONAD)

• DFG (2009 - 2012)
  In vitro reconstitution of motor-driven nuclear oscillations

• DFG SPP 1128 (2007 - 2009)
  Imaging the dynamics of actin-associated proteins in motile cells using ultra-fast TIRF microscopy

• BMBF - Nachwuchswettbewerb Nanotechnologie (2004 - 2009)
  Generierung und Manipulierung von Nanostrukturen mittels biomolekularer Motorsysteme (Junior Research Group)