Current position: Professor for Cell Biology, Head of the Institute of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Leibniz University Hannover

Research interests: My lab is interested in the interactions of stem cells with materials in their environment, with a focus on hematopoietic stem cells. We develop biomaterials to study the influence of material properties on stem cells. This knowledge is used to ‘program’ cell behavior via tailor-made biomaterials and to engineer artificial stem cell niches that are applied in fundamental research and for different applications including the development of test systems for pharmacy or regenerative medicine.

Photo credit and copyright: Markus Breig, KIT