Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences

Golestanian, Ramin, Prof. Dr.

Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization


  • 1995-1998: PhD, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
  • 1998-2000: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • 2000-2003: Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
  • 2001-2002: Visiting Assistant Professor (Maître de Conférences Invité), Collège de France, Paris, France
  • 2003-2005: Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
  • 2005-2006: Reader in Soft Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy & Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
  • 2007-2010: Professor in Soft Matter (personal Chair), Department of Physics and Astronomy & Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
  • 2010-2016: University Lecturer with Non-Tutorial Fellowship (ULNTF), Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • 2010-2018: Fellow, St Cross College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • 2012-2017: Staff Associate, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
  • 2017-present: RSIV Professor (Professorial Research Fellow), Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (part time from 1st March 2018)
  • 2018-present:Honorary Professor, Faculty of Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
  • 2018-present: Director, Department of Living Matter Physics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany



Major Research Interests
The department is engaged in a wide range of theoretical research aimed at a multi-scale understanding of the dynamics of living systems from a physical perspective. The aim is to understand the complex dynamics of living matter well enough to be able to make it from the bottom-up; i.e. from molecules to systems. The research topics cover, broadly speaking, chemical and mechanical nonequilibrium activity in Living Matter across the scales. The complementary lines of research focus on collective properties of enzymes, nonequilibrium and osmotic activity of nanopores and channels, dynamics of membranes and the role of confinement on enzyme suspensions and integral-membrane channels, chemical signalling and collective chemotaxis, mechanical signalling and active hydrodynamics of cilia, flow of information in active matter, and homeostasis and stability of living systems as compound ensembles of the above components.

Homepage Department/Research Group
http://www.ds.mpg.de/lmp/en/

ORCID: 0000-0002-3149-4002