Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg



Nikolas Schnellbächer

Research Interests

    • Cellular information processing
    • Spatial signaling
    • Stochastic processes
    • Particle based simulations
    • Biochemical networks
    • Pattern formation
    • Self-assembly
    • Statistical learning theory
    • Machine learning
    • Image processing

Publications

Press articles

Short Vita

    since October 2017
    Post doctoral researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz, Heidelberg, Germany
    October 2013 - October 2017
    PhD studies at Heidelberg University, Institute for Theoretical Physics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz, Heidelberg, Germany
    September 2013
    Master of Science in Physics at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, carried out at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
    2010 - 2013
    Master Studies in Physics at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
    2010 - 2011
    Erasmus Scholarship, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
    August 2010
    Bachelor of Science in Physics at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Talks & Posters

    • Poster: "3D-environments shape T-cell motility and cell-cell contacts during HIV-1 infection" - DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM) - 11.03.-16.03.2018 , TU Berlin, Germany
    • Poster: "Robust ligand discrimination by asymmetric receptor dimerization" - Quantitative Principles in Biology - 02.11.-04.11.2017 , EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
    • Talk: "Self-assembly of Rings and Capsids in Hydrodynamic Flow" - DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM) - 19.03. - 24.03.2017, Dresden, Germany
    • Talk: "Stochastic switching between multistable oscillation patterns of the Min-system" - DPG Bad Honnef Physics School: "Self-assembly in soft matter and biosystems" - 25.09. - 30.09.2016 , Bad Honnef, Germany
    • Poster: "Particle-based Simulations of the Min-System" - DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM) - 07.03. - 11.03.2016 , Regensburg University, Germany
    • Poster: "Stochastic Dynamics of Interferon Type I Signaling" - Physics of Cells and Tissues - BIOMS EMBL Conference - 30.09. - 02.10.2015 , EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
    • Talk: "Stochastic Dynamics of Interferon Type I Signaling" - DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM) - March 15-20, 2015, TU Berlin, Germany
    • Talk: "Stochastic Dynamics of Interferon Type I Signaling" - International BIOMS Workshop on Modelling Cellular Systems - October 01-02, 2014, BioQuant Heidelberg, Germany

Conferences

    • 19.03 - 24.03. 2017, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM), Dresden, Germany
    • 07.11 - 08.11. 2016, From Membranes to Cells 2016 (FMTC), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
    • 25.09 - 30.09. 2016, DPG Bad Honnef Physics School on: "Self-assembly in soft matter and biosystems", Bad Honnef, Germany
    • 07.03 - 11.03. 2016, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM), Regensburg University, Germany
    • 30.09 - 02.10. 2015, Physics of Cells and Tissues - BIOMS EMBL Conference, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
    • 14.07 - 15.07. 2015, IWH Symposium Collective Cell Migration, IWH Heidelberg, Germany
    • 18.05 - 22.05. 2015, Random Walks and Nonlinear Dynamics in the Life of Cells - MPIPKS , MPIPKS Dresden, Germany
    • 15.03 - 20.03. 2015, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM), TU Berlin, Germany
    • 01.10 - 02.10. 2014, International BIOMS Workshop - Modelling Cellular Systems), Heidelberg, Germany
    • 30.03 - 04.04. 2014, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM), TU Dresden, Germany
    • 07. - 09. 10. 2013, BDBDB3: Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm 3, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg, Germany
    • 12. - 13. 04. 2013, 6th Workshop on Monte-Carlo-Methods, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg, Germany

Teaching activities

    • Summer term 2018, Seminar on Biophysics of Sensing, Signaling and Cell fate decision
    • Summer term 2018, Tutor Theoretical Biophysics
    • Winter term 2016/2017, Tutor for Non-linear Dynamics, Heidelberg University
    • Winter term 2016/2017, Tutor for Stochastic Dynamics, Heidelberg University
    • Winter term 2014/2015, Tutor for Theoretical Physics III - Electrodynamics (Physics Department), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
    • Summer term 2014, Tutor for Theoretical Biophysics (Physics Department), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
    • Winter term 2013/2014, Tutor for Theoretical Physics I - Mechanics (Physics Department), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
    • Winter term 2012/2013, Tutor for Linear Algebra I (Mathematics Department), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
    • Summer term 2012, Tutor for Linear Algebra II (Mathematics Department), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
    • Winter term 2011/2012, Tutor for Linear Algebra I (Mathematics Department), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Address

Nikolas Schnellbächer
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg

BioQuant - Center for Quantitative Biology
Im Neuenheimer Feld 267
Room 163
69120 Heidelberg, Germany

email: nikolas.schnellbaecher at bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de
phone: +49-(0)6221-54-51253
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