Prof. Dr. Christine Selhuber-Unkel
Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials (IMSEAM)
Heidelberg University
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Phone: +49 6221-54 4942
E-Mail
website: https://www.imse.uni-heidelberg.de/
FIELDS OF INTEREST
3D biomaterials, hydrogels, force microscopy, physics of biohybrid systems
AWARDS & HONORS
2020 | ERC Consolidator Grant “PHOTOMECH” |
2020 | Fellow of the Max Planck School “Matter to Life” |
2014 | Feodor Lynen Stipend from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a 6 month research stay at Cornell University |
2013 | ERC Starting Grant “CELLINSPIRED” |
2010 | Emmy Noether Grant from the DFG |
2008 | Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Society |
2007 | Dieter Rampacher Prize, Max Planck Society |
2006 | Wilma Moser Prize, Heidelberg University |
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2020 – present | Full professor, Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering (IMSE), Heidelberg University |
2011 – 2020 | Associate Professor, Institute for Materials Science, Kiel University |
2010 – 2011 | Assistant Professor and Emmy Noether Group Leader, Institute for Materials Science, Kiel University |
2009 – 2010 | PostDoc, Zoological Institute, Kiel University |
2007 – 2009 | PostDoc, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Denmark |
2020 – present | Deputy spokesperson of the executive board of the Flagship Initiative “Engineering Molecular Systems”, Heidelberg University |
2020 – present | Spokesperson of the section “Cellular Biophysics” of the German Society of Biophysics (DGfB) |
2016 – 2020 | Spokesperson of the Research Training Group 2154 “Materials for Brain”, Kiel University |
a) peer-reviewed publications (*designates multiple corresponding authors)
Arndt C, Hauck M, Wacker I, Zeller-Plumhoff B, Rasch F, Taale M, Nia AS, Feng X, Ade-lung R, Schröder RR, Schütt F*, Selhuber-Unkel C* (2021). Microengineered Hollow Gra-phene Tube Systems Generate Conductive Hydrogels with Extremely Low Filler Concentra-tion. Nano Lett. 21:3690-3697
Krapf D, Lukat N, Marinari E, Metzler R, Oshanin G, Selhuber-Unkel C, Squarcini A, Stad-ler L, Weiss M, Xu X (2019). Spectral content of a single non-Brownian trajectory. Physical Review X 9:011019
Taale M, Schütt F, Carey T, Marx J, Mishra YK, Fiedler B, Torrisi F, Adelung R, Selhuber-Unkel C (2019). Biomimetic Carbon-Fiber Systems Engineering: A Modular Design Strategy to Generate Biofunctional Composites from Graphene and Carbon Nanofibers. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 11:5325-5335
Appiah C, Arndt C, Siemsen K, Heitmann A, Staubitz A*, Selhuber-Unkel C* (2019). Living materials herald a new era in soft robotics. Advanced Materials 31:1807747
Taale M, F. Schütt, K. Zheng, Y. K. Mishra, A. R. Boccaccini, R. Adelung, C. Selhuber-Unkel (2018). Bioactive carbon based hybrid 3D scaffolds for osteoblast growth. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 10:43874
Kadem LF, Suana KG, Holz M, Wang W, Westerhaus H, Herges R*, Selhuber-Unkel C* (2017). High Frequency Mechanostimulation of Cell Adhesion. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56:225-229
Kadem LF, Holz M, Suana KG, Li Q, Lamprecht C, Herges R, Selhuber-Unkel C. 2016. Rapid Reversible Photoswitching of Integrin-mediated Adhesion at the Single-Cell Level. Adv. Mater. 28:1799-1802
Reverey JF, Jeon JH, Bao H, Leippe M, Metzler R, Selhuber-Unkel R (2015). Superdiffu-sion dominates intracellular particle motion in the supercrowded cytoplasm of pathogenic Acanthamoeba castellanii. Sci. Rep. 5:11690
Jeon JH, Tejedor V, Burov S, Barkai E, Selhuber-Unkel C, Berg-Sørensen K, Oddershede LB, Metzler R (2011). In vivo anomalous diffusion and weak ergodicity breaking of lipid granules. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106:048103
Münter S#, Sabass B#, Selhuber-Unkel C#, Kudryashev M, Hegge S, Engel U, Spatz JP, Matuschewski K, Schwarz US, Frischknecht F (2009). Malaria parasite motility is modulated by the turnover of discrete adhesion sites. Cell Host Microbe. 6:551-562 (# shared first-authorship)
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