Stefan Schiller

Biography

Stefan M. Schiller studied chemistry at the Justus Liebig University of Mainz, Amherst and the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. He received his diploma in organic chemistry in 1998 from the Johannes Gutenberg University. After working on a research project in the main laboratory of the BASF AG, he joined the MPI for Polymer Science. on biomimetic supramolecular membrane architectures. During this time, the research team at the IBM Research Center Almaden, San Jose, Stanford University, the Biotechnology Engineering Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel and the Manuel Lujan, Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center, Los Alamos. From 2004-2008 he has been a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Peter G. Schultz at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, in the field of chemical biology and synthetic biology. In 2008, he joined the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany, as a junior research fellow in the School for Soft Matter Research until 2013. In 2014 he got awarded the BMBF research prize "2014 "Focusing on the modular expansion of cell functions.

Research Interest

His current research focuses on Bio-based nano-mechano-responsive films: A new step towards soft-mechano-chemistry