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[1] and dynamic DNA-based systems.[2]

Simmel received a PhD in experimental physics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1999. From 2000 to 2002 he was a PostDoctoral researcher at Bell Labs. He joined the faculty of the Technical University Munich as a full professor in 2007.[3]

Awards and memberships

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  • 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

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  1. ^ Yurke, Bernard (2000), "A DNA-fuelled molecular machine made of DNA", Nature, 406 (6796): 605–8, Bibcode:2000Natur.406..605Y, doi:10.1038/35020524, PMID 10949296, S2CID 2064216.
  2. ^ Franco, Elisa (2011), "Timing molecular motion and production with a synthetic transcriptional clock", PNAS, 108 (40): E784-93, doi:10.1073/pnas.1100060108, PMC 3189071, PMID 21921236.
  3. ^ Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Friedrich Simmel, Technische Universität München, archived from the original on 2014-11-13, retrieved 2014-11-13.

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