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Max Hoffmann

Research Interests

• Polymer physics
• Cell adhesion
• Network analysis
• Spatial stochastic simulations

Short Vita

since April 2010

PhD student at Heidelberg University, Institute for Theoretical Physics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz, Heidelberg, Germany

December 2009

Diploma in Physics (Thesis: "Theory and Simulation of cross-linked Polymers at Surfaces" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Sommer at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden)

October 2004 - December 2009

Study of Physics at Technische Universität Dresden in Dresden, Germany

Publications

• Oscillations of Min-proteins in micropatterned environments: a three-dimensional particle-based stochastic simulation approach. Max Hoffmann and Ulrich S. Schwarz. Soft Matter, Advance Article (2014). DOI: 10.1039/C3SM52251B
• Fluctuation driven height reduction of crosslinked polymer brushes: A Monte Carlo study. Michael Lang, Max Hoffmann, Marco Werner, Ron Dockhorn, and Jens-Uwe Sommer. Journal of Chemical Physics 139, 164903 (2013). DOI: 10.1063/1.4825207
• Membrane and actin reorganization in electropulse-induced cell fusion. Günther Gerisch, Mary Ecke, Ralph Neujahr, Jana Prassler, Andreas Stengl, Max Hoffmann, Ulrich S. Schwarz and Eberhard Neumann. Journal of Cell Science, 126(9), 2069-2078 (2013). DOI: 10.1242/jcs.124073
• A kinetic model for RNA-interference of focal adhesions. Max Hoffmann and Ulrich S. Schwarz. BMC Systems Biology, 7:2 (2013). DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-7-2
• Gelation threshold of cross-linked polymer brushes. Max Hoffmann, Michael Lang, and Jens-Uwe Sommer. Physical Review E 83, 021803 (2011). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.021803

Conferences

• 10. - 15. 03. 2013, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, University of Regensburg, Germany
• 09. - 11. 07. 2012, Workshop on Stochastic Modelling of Reaction-Diffusion Processes in Biology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• 25. - 30. 03. 2012, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, TU Berlin, Germany
• 11. - 15. 12. 2011, 484. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Physics of Biological Function - Multicellular systems, Bad Honnef, Germany
• 28.08. - 01. 09. 2011, 12th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB), Heidelberg/Mannheim, Germany
• 15. - 19. 05. 2011, SPATIAL 2011, Engelberg, Switzerland
• 13. - 18. 03. 2011, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, TU Dresden, Germany
• 11. - 13. 10. 2010, BDBDB2: Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm 2, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
• 21. - 26. 03. 2010, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, University of Regensburg, Germany
• 29. - 04. 07. 2008, 58th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Lindau, Germany
• 04. - 05. 10. 2007, The Keenan Symposium: Meeting the Entropy Challenge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

Talks and posters

• Poster: A systems-level model for focal adhesions, 13.03.2013, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, Regensburg, Germany
• Poster: Static and dynamic properties of cross-linked and non cross-linked polymer brushes, 11.03.2013, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, Regensburg, Germany
• Poster: Spatial stochastic simulations of focal adhesions, 10.07.2012, Workshop on Stochastic Modeling of Reaction-Diffusion Processes in Biology, Oxford, United Kingdom
• Talk: A Kinetic Model for RNA-Interference of Focal Adhesions, 29.03.2012, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, Berlin, Germany
• Poster: A Kinetic Model for RNA-Interference of Focal Adhesions, 12.12.2011, 484. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Physics of Biological Function - Multicellular systems, Bad Honnef, Germany
• Poster: A Kinetic Model for RNA-Interference of Focal Adhesions, 30.08.2011, 12th International Conference on Systems Biology, Heidelberg/Mannheim, Germany
• Poster: Cross-linked Polymer Brushes, 01.09.2010, Polymer Network Group Conference, Goslar, Germany
• Talk: Cross-linked Polymer Brushes, 24.03.2010, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, Regensburg, Germany

Teaching activities

• Winter term 2010/2011, Tutor for Theoretical Mechanics I (Bachelor of Physics, 1st semester), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
• Summer term 2011, Tutor for Theoretical Mechanics II (Bachelor of Physics, 2nd semester), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
• Winter term 2011/2012, Tutor for Theoretical Mechanics I (Bachelor of Physics, 1st semester), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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