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Philipp Albert

Research Interests

• Statistical mechanics
• Stochastic dynamics
• Cellular Potts Model
• Cell mechanics
• Cells on micropatterned substrates
• Molecular motors
• Cellular contractility
• Actin cytoskeleton

Short Vita

since December 2010

PhD student at Universität Heidelberg (Germany), Institute for Theoretical Physics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz

November 2010

Diploma in Physics at Universität Heidelberg (Germany), Institute for Theoretical Physics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz and Dr. Thorsten Erdmann

October 2008- November 2010

Study of Physics at Universität Heidelberg (Germany)

October 2007- September 2008

Study of Physics at Uppsala University (Sweden)

October 2006- September 2007

Study of Physics at Universität Würzburg (Germany)

October 2004 - September 2006

Study of Physics at Universitat Ulm (Germany), Vordiplom

Diploma Thesis

• Tug of War of Small Ensembles of Non-processive Molecular Motors, Universität Heidelberg (Germany), 2010

Publications

• Philipp J. Albert, Thorsten Erdmann, and Ulrich S. Schwarz.
  Stochastic dynamics and mechanosensitivity of myosin II minifilaments.
  New Journal of Physics, 16 (2014) 093019.
  journal website, arXiv:1404.1587


• Philipp J. Albert and Ulrich S. Schwarz
  Dynamics of Cell Shape and Forces on Micropatterned Substrates Predicted by a Cellular Potts Model
  Biophysical Journal 106: 2340 - 2352, 2014.
  journal website, PDF


• Thorsten Erdmann, Philipp J. Albert, and Ulrich S. Schwarz.
  Stochastic dynamics of small ensembles of non-processive molecular motors: the parallel cluster model.
  J. Chem. Phys., 139:175104, 2013.
  journal website, PDF, arXiv:1307.6510

Conferences

• 30. - 04. 04. 2014, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, TU Dresden, Germany
• 10. - 15. 03. 2013, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, University of Regensburg, Germany
• 02. - 08. 09. 2013, Physics of Cells - from soft to living matter - , Hyères, Côte d'Azur, France
• 25. - 30. 03. 2012, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, TU Berlin, Germany
• 13. - 18. 03. 2011, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, TU Dresden, Germany
• 21. - 26. 03. 2010, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, University of Regensburg, Germany

Talks and posters

• Poster: Cell Shape and Forces on Micropatterned Substrates Predicted by a Cellular Potts Model , 31.03.2014, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, Dresden, Germany
• Talk: Cell Shape and Dynamics on micropatterned Substrates , 14.03.2013, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, Regensburg, Germany
• Poster: Tug-of-war of small ensembles of myosin II motors, 17.03.2011, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, Dresden, Germany

Teaching activities

• Winter term 2012/2013, Tutor for Statistical Physics (MSc in Physics, 1st semester), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
• Winter term 2011/2012, Tutor for Statistical Physics (MSc in Physics, 1st semester), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
• Summer term 2011, Tutor for Theoretical Mechanics II (BSc in Physics, 2nd semester), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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