Prof. Dr. Stefan Klumpp
- 1999 Diploma in Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 2003 Dr. rer. nat., Physics, University of Potsdam, Germany
- 2004 – 2005 Research associate, MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
- 2006 – 2009 Postdoc, University of California, San Diego, USA
- 2009 – 2016 Group leader, MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
- since 2015 Professor of Theoretical Biophysics, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany
Major Research Interests
Biological processes must obey the laws of physics, but are also subject to functional requirements and shaped by the forces of evolution. Our group is interested in how functional requirements are implemented within the given physical constraints. The research areas of the group are: (i) motility and active matter, (ii) stochastic dynamics in biology, (iii) gene regulation, cell growth, and population dynamics.
Homepage Department/Research Group
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/527801.html
Selected Recent Publications
- Dannenberg S, Penning J, Simm A, Klumpp S (2024) The motility-matrix production switch in Bacillus subtilis - a modeling perspective, J. Bacteriol. 206, e00047-23
- Abbaspour L, Malek A, Karpitschka S, Klumpp S (2023) Effects of direction reversals on patterns of active filaments, Phys. Rev. Res. 5, 013171
- Codutti A, Charsooghi MA, Cerdá-Doñate E, Taïeb HM, Robinson T, Faivre D, Klumpp S (2022) Interplay of surface interaction and magnetic torque in single-cell motion of magnetotactic bacteria in microfluidic confinement, eLife 11, e71527
- Schaedel L, Lorenz C, Schepers AV, Klumpp Sand Köster S (2021) Vimentin Intermediate Filaments Stabilize Dynamic Microtubules by Direct Interactions, Nature Commun. 12, 3799
- Klumpp S, Lefèvre CT, Bennet M, Faivre D (2019) Swimming with magnets: from biological organisms to synthetic devices, Phys. Rep. 789, 1-54