Short Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz - CellNetworks
Short Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz - CellNetworks
Short Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz - CellNetworks
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<strong>Short</strong> <strong>Curriculum</strong> <strong>Vitae</strong><br />
<strong>Prof</strong>. <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Ulrich</strong> <strong>Schwarz</strong><br />
Address: University of Heidelberg<br />
Institute for Theoretical Physics<br />
Philosophenweg 19<br />
D-69120 Heidelberg<br />
Phone: +49-6221-54-9399<br />
Fax: +49-6221-54-9331<br />
Email: u.schwarz@tphys.uni-heidelberg.de<br />
Internet: http://www.bioms.de/schwarz<br />
CURRENT POSITION<br />
Chair for Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Heidelberg; Member of the Institute<br />
for Theoretical Physics; Member of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy; Member of the<br />
Faculty of Life Sciences; Member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR);<br />
Member of the Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the<br />
Sciences (HGS MathComp); Member of the research network BioQuant and the cluster of<br />
excellence <strong>CellNetworks</strong><br />
FIELDS OF INTEREST<br />
Theoretical physics, statistical mechanics, physics of soft condensed matter, biological<br />
physics, computational cell biology, quantitative and systems biology, cell mechanics and<br />
adhesion<br />
SCIENTIFIC VITA<br />
1987 - 1990 Physics student, Freiburg University<br />
1990 - 1991 Fulbright scholar, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA<br />
1991 - 1994 Physics student, Munich University<br />
1994 - 1998 PhD, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam<br />
1998 - 2000 Postdoc, Minerva fellow, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel<br />
2000 - 2005 Group leader, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam<br />
2001 - 2007 Emmy Noether junior research group leader<br />
2003 Visiting professor, Leipzig University<br />
2004 Habilitation, Potsdam University<br />
2005 - 2008 Group leader, Center for Modelling and Simulation in the Biosciences (BIOMS)<br />
2008 - 2009 Chair for Theoretical Biophysics, Institute of Zoology, University of Karlsruhe<br />
2009 - Chair for Physics of Complex Systems, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg<br />
COORDINATING FUNCTIONS<br />
2005-07 Member Rektoratskommission BioQuant<br />
2006-08 Member steering committees <strong>CellNetworks</strong> and Viroquant
2009- Co-speaker of the section Biological Physics of the German Physical Society<br />
2009- Member of the Scientific Board of the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef<br />
2010- Coordinator Modeling Platform <strong>CellNetworks</strong><br />
Organizer of several scientific conferences, including 2005 WEH-seminar Dynamics of cell and<br />
tissue structure and 2007 Volkswagen Stiftung Workshop Computer simulations of soft matter<br />
and biosystems<br />
60 peer-reviewed publications, Hirsch-index 15<br />
reviewer for 20+ journals, including Science, Nature, PNAS, Current Biology, Physical Review<br />
Letters and Biophysical Journal<br />
40 invited conference talks since 2000<br />
Regular teaching since 2001 (20+ courses)<br />
10 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS<br />
1. N. Q. Balaban, U. S. <strong>Schwarz</strong>, D. Riveline, P. Goichberg, G. Tzur, I. Sabanay, D.<br />
Mahalu, S. Safran, A. Bershadsky, L. Addadi, and B. Geiger. Force and focal adhesion<br />
assembly: a close relationship studied using elastic micro-patterned substrates. Nat. Cell<br />
Biol. 3: 466-72, 2001.<br />
2. U. S. <strong>Schwarz</strong>, N. Q. Balaban, D. Riveline, A. Bershadsky, B. Geiger, and S. A. Safran.<br />
Calculation of forces at focal adhesions from elastic substrate data: the effect of localized<br />
force and the need for regularization. Biophys. J. 83: 1380-1394, 2002.<br />
3. I. B. Bischofs and U. S. <strong>Schwarz</strong>. Cell organization in soft media due to active<br />
mechanosensing. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100: 9274-79, 2003.<br />
4. U. S. <strong>Schwarz</strong> and R. Alon. L-selectin mediated leukocyte tethering in shear flow is<br />
controled by multiple contacts and cytoskeletal anchorage facilitating fast rebinding<br />
events. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 6940-6945, 2004.<br />
5. B. Sabass, M. L. Gardel, C. M. Waterman and U. S. <strong>Schwarz</strong>. High resolution traction<br />
force microscopy based on experimental and computational advances. Biophys. J.,<br />
94:207-220, 2008.<br />
6. I. B. Bischofs, F. Klein, D. Lehnert, M. Bastmeyer and U. S. <strong>Schwarz</strong>. Filamentous<br />
network mechanics and active contractility determine cell and tissue shape. Biophys. J.,<br />
95: 3488-96, 2008.<br />
7. M. L. Gardel, B. Sabass, L. Ji, G. Danuser, U. S. <strong>Schwarz</strong>, and C. M. Waterman.<br />
Traction stress in focal adhesions correlates biphasically with actin retrograde flow<br />
speed. J. Cell Biol., 183:999-1005, 2008.<br />
8. J. Colombelli, A. Besser, H. Kress, E.G. Reynaud, P. Girard, E. Caussinus, U.<br />
Haselmann, J.V. Small, U. S. <strong>Schwarz</strong>, and E.H.K. Stelzer. Mechanosensing in actin<br />
stress fibers revealed by a close correlation between force and protein localization. J.<br />
Cell Sci., 122:1665-79, 2009.<br />
9. S. Münter, B. Sabass, C. Selhuber-Unkel, M. Kudryashev, S. Hegge, U. Engel, J. P.<br />
Spatz, K. Matuschewski, U. S. <strong>Schwarz</strong>, and F. Frischknecht. Plasmodium sporozoite<br />
motility is modulated by the turnover of discrete adhesion sites. Cell Host Microbe, 6:551-<br />
562, 2009.<br />
10. J. Weichsel and U. S. <strong>Schwarz</strong>. Two competing orientation patterns explain<br />
experimentally observed anomalies in growing actin networks Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.<br />
USA, 107:6304-9, 2010.