Benjamin Friedrich
12/2017 |
Habilitation in Theoretical Physics |
since 4/2016 |
Research Group Leader |
10/11 - 03/16 | Independent Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden Mechanical and chemical regulation in biological systems |
09/09 - 08/11 |
Post-doc with Samuel Safran |
08/05 - 08/09 | Phd student and post-doc with Frank Jülicher at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden Title of phd thesis: Chemotaxis of sperm cells Thesis submission: 20.10.08, Phd defense: 17.02.09 (summa cum laude) |
09/07 | Guest stay in the lab of U. Benjamin Kaupp at the Institut fur Zelluläre Signalverarbeitung, Forschungszentrum Jülich Data analysis for sperm chemotaxis experiments |
01/05 - 07/05 |
Guest scientist with Angela Stevens at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig Work in mathematical biology (elasticity of prokaryotic flagella) |
09/04 - 10/04 | Visiting Associate with the Boston Consulting Group GmbH |
04/04 - 08/04 | Teaching assistant in Mathematics at Universität Leipzig, Germany |
10/99 – 03/04 | Diploma studies at Universität Leipzig Diploma in Mathematics (Final grade 1.0) |
10/01 – 07/02 | Master studies at University of Cambridge, UK Master's degree: Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics (distinction) |
08/91 – 07/98 | Abitur (A-levels) in Rostock with final grade 1.0 (very good) |
Awards & grants
1999 | Bronze medal International Mathematics Olympiad, Taiwan |
2010 | Otto-Hahn medal of the Max Planck Society |
2014 | Member DFG priority program "Microswimmers" SPP 1726 (FR 3429/1-1) |
2016 | Affiliate Member: Center for Systems Biology Dresden |
2016 | Senior Member: Center for Dynamics, Dresden |
2019 | 'Dresden Excellence Award' for best habilitation thesis |
2019 | Principal Investigator of Cluster of Excellence 'Physics of Life' |
2020 | Heisenberg grant by DFG |
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