Highlights:
1. Our research group is a part of the Biointerfaces Programme at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Heidelberg University in Germany
2. We have several open Ph.D. positions. We are looking for highly motivated students majored in chemistry or polymer chemistry.
3. In our research group, we have several projects focused on the development of biologically active functional polymer surfaces and materials, "smart" switchable polymer surfaces, and gradient surfaces that we use for fundamental investigations of biological interfaces, for studying cell- and bacteria-surface interactions and for studying biofouling.
4. The motivation behind our research is: to learn how cells and bacteria interact with surfaces; to develop biocompatible, biomimetic and "smart" materials that can improve performance of existing biomedical or cell culture devices; and to use this knowledge and materials to achieve control over behavior of cells and bacteria on surfaces.
5. Our research is very interdisciplinary and we closely collaborate with biologists and physicists from the Biointerfaces Programme launched at the KIT in 2010.
6. Applications should be sent per email to Dr. Pavel Levkin (levkin@kit.edu)
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