(Apart from the fact that there many other interesting things in science... these are the some of the bits I had the chance to deal with)
Here is a list of my scientific publications
At the moment, I am Leader of the "Interface Spectroscopy" group at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research. We are not doing too much iron research, though. On the one hand we want to extend the capabilities of current internal reflection (ATR) spectroscopy. That includes e.g. work on increasing the transparency of metals in such experiments in the infrared. Or a way to get a depth profile of coatings on metals, metal oxides, etc. On the other hand, we would like to address the question how bacteria stick to metal or metal oxide surfaces, what keeps them there, and how they can involve the metal into their metabolism. Students or postdocs interested in joining our work - either for a short visit or for a thesis or a long-term project - feel free to send me an email.
During a second postdoc, I was working at the Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica in the Nanobioscience Lab with Chia-fu Chou on many things. Apart from the activities you run into when setting up labs with a new group, these many things included setting up an interference lithography experiment, some work on lipid bilayers on glass, some fluorescence microscopy and some AFM.
A Postdoc project in the Molecular and Nanoscale Physics Group at the University of Leeds dealt with coupeling electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and FT-IR spectroscopy to characerize tethered lipid bilayer membranes and redox-active proteins embedded in such membranes in the group of Lars Jeuken.
PhD thesis about "Ellipsometric light scattering as a novel method for the characterization of the interface of colloids" (2004). Details here ...
The work for this thesis was done at Max Planck Institut of Colloids and Interfaces in Golm in the group Modern Methods of Light Scattering and was submitted to University Potsdam.
Diploma thesis with the topic "Secondary structure of a model peptide
at interfaces" (2001).
(This is to big to put it here, but one can ask about it ...)
Here is a summary of the thesis.
This work was done at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in the group of Prof Blume.
Scientific Interests: self-assembly of complex molecular systems,
polymers and amphiphiles at interfaces, liquid crystals,
interface of colloids, ion distribution, optical characterization methods,
spectroscopy, light scattering, optical properties of colloids, biomembranes,
membrane proteins and amphiphilic peptides, modeling of electromagnatic scattering and
reflection phenomena, electrochemistry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
Created by Andreas Erbe, updated 09.12.2007
Contact: aerbe(at)arcor.de