Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences

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)
  • 2015 – 2020 Research group leader (Bionanotechnology), Institute for Physical Chemistry, Göttingen University
  • 2016 – 2018 Principal investigator in the excellence cluster CNMPB (Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain)
  • 2017 – 2020 Principal investigator in the life@nano cluster initiative
  • since 2020 Professor of Physical Chemistry at Ruhr Universität Bochum



Major Research Interests



  • Biophotonics
  • Microscopy
  • Nanomaterials
  • Biosensors
  • Cell Biophysics




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


Selected Recent Publications



  • Settele S, Schrage A, Jung S, Michel E, Li H, Flavel B, Hashmi S, Kruss S*, Zaumseil J* (2024) Ratiometric fluorescent sensing of pyrophosphate with sp3-functionalized single- walled carbon nanotubes, Nature Communications 2024, DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-45052-1

  • Sistemich L, Stegemann J, Galonska P, Kruss S (2023) Fluorescence lifetime imaging of near infrared fluorescent nanosensors, Angewandte Chemie 2023, 62, e202300682

  • Selvaggio G, Chizhik A, Nißler R, Meyer D, Vuong L, Preiß H, Herrmann N, Mann F, Lv Z, Oswald T, Spreinat A, Erpenbeck L, Kruss S (2020) Exfoliated near infrared fluorescent calcium copper silicate nanosheets for biophotonics. Nature Communications 2020, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15299-5

  • Nißler R, Bader O, Dohmen M, Walter S, Noll C, Selvaggio G, Groß U, Kruss S (2020) Remote near infrared identification of pathogens with multiplexed nanosensors. Nature Communications 2020, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19718-5

  • 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