Verleihung des Theodor-Hänsch-Promotionspreises: Self-organization and self-assembly in biologically inspired non-equilibrium systems

The goal of my thesis was to study principles of biological self-organization and self-assembly by means of theoretical modeling. To this end, we considered several conceptual models inspired by different biological settings. In this talk, I will present our approach to better understand complex biological systems based on two projects. The first one addresses the question of how in networks of motor-crosslinked filaments macroscopic, collective dynamics arise from interactions between individual network constituents. The second project is concerned with the self-assembly of heterogeneous structures and focuses on the effect of fluctuations on assembly efficiency and robustness.

The Colloquium will take place online: Zoom (Password: Kolloquium)