Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kruss

2002 – 2007 Studies of Chemistry and Biophysics at Heidelberg University
2008 – 2011 PhD in Biophysical Chemistry at Heidelberg University & Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (with Joachim Spatz)
2012 – 2014 Postdoc at MIT (Cambridge, USA), Department of Chemical Engineering (with Michael Strano)
since 2014 Research group leader (Bionanotechnology), Institute for Physical Chemistry, Göttingen University
since 2016 Principal investigator in the excellence cluster CNMPB (Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain)
since 2017 Principal investigator in the life@nano cluster initiative
since 2020 Professor at Ruhr Universität Bochum

Major Research Interests

Homepage Department/Research Group
https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pc2/kruss/

Selected Recent Publications

Nissler R, Mann FA, Chaturvedi P, Horlebein J, Meyer D, Vukovic L, Kruss S (2019) Quantification of the Number of Adsorbed DNA Molecules on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019, 123(8), 4837-4847

Neubert E, Meyer D, Rocca F, Kwaczala-Tessmann A, Gradnke J, Senger-Sander S, Geisler C, Egner A, Schön M, Erpenbeck L, Kruss S (2018) Chromatin swelling drives neutrophil extracellular trap release, Nature Communications 2018, 9(1):3767

Polo E, Nitka TT, Neubert E, Erpenbeck L, Vukovic L, Kruss S (2018) Control of integrin affinity by confining RGD peptides on fluorescent carbon nanotubes, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018, 10(21),17693-17703

Meyer D, Hagemann A, Kruss S (2017) Kinetic requirements for spatiotemporal chemical imaging with fluorescent nanosensors, ACS Nano 2017, 11(4), 4017-4027

Kruss S, Salem D, Vukovic L, Lima B, Vander Ende E, Boyden E, Strano M (2017) High resolution imaging of cellular dopamine efflux using nanosensor arrays, PNAS 2017, 114(8), 1789-1794