Monday, 06 September, 2021

Welcome!

Dr. Sabine Schneider and Prof. Benedikt Sabaß are new CeNS members

Dr. Sabine Schneider studied Biology at the LMU Munich. Following her PhD on the structure-function relationship of bacterial haem proteins at the University of Nottingham, UK, she became a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry, LMU Munich, working on the molecular mechanism of DNA damage repair (2007-10). In 2010 she started her independent research group at the Department of Chemistry, Technical University Munich, provided by a Liebig Fellowship from the Fonds der Chemischen industrie (FCI), focusing on the structural and chemical biology of nucleic acids and nucleic acid binding proteins. She was awarded a Heisenberg fellowship by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and, in 2019, moved her research group to the Dept. of Chemistry at the LMU Munich, where she investigates the molecular details and structure-function relationship of nucleic acids and protein-nucleic acid/ligand complexes. She is a PI of the SFB1032 "Nanoagents".

Website: schneider.cup.uni-muenchen.de

Prof. Benedikt Sabaß studied Physics at Heidelberg University. He receided his PhD in Theoretical Physics from Stuttgart University. After a short period of R&D in industry, he was a Postdoctoral researcher at Heidelberg University with Prof. Ulrich Schwarz and at Princeton University with Howard A. Stone. In 2016, he became group leader at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Biological Information Processing. Since 2020, Benedikt Sabaß is W2 Professor at LMU Munich, at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Being a theoretical physicist by training, he is inspired by the beauty and effectiveness of biological mechanisms. His work evolves around topics from cell biology and fundamental questions in theoretical biophysics. 

Website: www.biostatphys.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de/index.html