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New Heisenberg professorship: Arash Nikoubashman researches biologically inspired polymers at TU Dresden and IPF
Arash Nikoubashman has accepted the joint appointment to a Heisenberg Professorship for "Theory of Biologically Inspired Polymers" at the Technische Universität Dresden and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF) as of 1 August 2023. This professorship is funded by the German Research Foundation and is dedicated to the theoretical modelling and simulation of biologically inspired materials, in particular polymers.
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Prior to his current position, Professor Nikoubashman was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University (USA) in the group of Professor A. Z. Panagiotopoulos in the field of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He then headed an Emmy Noether junior research group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on the topic of „Controlled Transport and Assembly of Soft Matter“.
The group's research focuses on various aspects of soft matter theory, including the investigation of metastable states in driven systems and structure formation in drying droplets. An important part of the work is the development of parallelised and cross-scale algorithms to enable the efficient simulation of complex systems. As part of the newly established Heisenberg project, his team is investigating how concepts from classical polymer physics can be applied to biological systems (and vice versa). The aim is to research and develop materials that are made up of only a few basic components and yet exhibit remarkable properties and functions that are often found in living organisms.
Biological and bio-inspired polymers and colloids are characterised by multiple interactions and hierarchical time and length scales. Theory and computer simulations are therefore ideal tools to explore the essential physical properties of these complex systems. They allow precise control over the microscopic building blocks and the processing conditions and at the same time permit detailed analysis of the resulting structure and dynamics.
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