Teaching

Projects

I offer research projects for students at BSc and MSc level with backgrounds ranging from biology and chemistry to physics. The projects usually have a theory/modelling/computational approach and address practical questions in chemistry or biology, often within the Physics of Life group at the University of York. The projects may be part of the curriculum or can be summer internships. The latter type of projects are typically funded by the Biological Physical Sciences Institute network (BPSInet York, UK), Physics of Life (national, UK), and (previously) the Erasmus Exchange Programme (EU).

Lectures

• Biophysics: Collective Diffusion and Phase Separation of (Bio-)Macromolecules
  Covers: Flory-Huggins, Langevin and Brownian dynamics, Continuum Equation
• Physics of Life:
  • Pt. I. Biological Soft-Matter at Thermal Equilibrium
    Covers: Phase diagrams, biomolecular condensates, bio-polymer networksm and intrinsically disordered sticker-and spacer proteins. Focus on structure and linear dynamics (incl. rubber elastisticy andBiological Soft-Matter at Thermal EquilibriumBiological Soft-Matter at Thermal Equilibrium Sticky Rouse reptation).
  • Pt. II. Biological Soft-Matter out of Thermal Equilibrium