Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich
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Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich (born 1981) is a German biophysicist. She is a researcher in the Excellence Cluster Physics of Life (PoL) at the Technischen Universität Dresden. Her scientific work has been recognized with the Otto Hahn Medal[1] and the Hertha Spooner Prize.[2]
Career
[edit]Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich studied physics at the University of Leipzig and the University of Edinburgh and received her doctorate from Saarland University in 2009.[2]
After completing her PhD, she worked as a postdoc at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden. In 2017, she became a group leader at the B CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering at Technische Universität Dresden,[3] and in 2019 she became a group leader at the Physics of Life (PoL) Cluster of Excellence at TU Dresden.[4]
In 2023, Fischer-Friedrich was appointed Heisenberg Professor for Mechanics of Active Biomaterials at TU Dresden.[5][6] She deals with the question of how mechanical stress influences the properties of cells or biological tissues, such as growth. Her focus is on the actin cytoskeleton.[4] In her work, she was able to show that metastasis in carcinomas is closely linked to changes in the stiffness of cancer cells.[2]
Awards and honors
[edit]- 2009 Otto Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft[2]
- 2022 Hertha Sponer Prize of the German Physical Society for her "outstanding contributions to the characterization of the mechanical properties of cells and protein condensates"[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich honored with the Hertha Sponer Prize of the German Physical Society". TU Dresden. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ^ a b c d "Preisträgerinnen (Prize winners)". DPG. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ^ "BIOTEC welcomes new research group leader Dr. Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich". TU Dresden (in German). Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ^ a b "PoL – Physics of Life | Team | PoL Groups | Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich". physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ^ "Kräftemessen der Zellen: Neue Heisenberg-Professur für Mechanik von aktiven Biomaterialien an der TU Dresden". TU Dresden (in German). Retrieved 1 May 2025.
- ^ Weckbrodt, Heiko (23 April 2023). "Die Kunst der biologischen Selbstverformung". Oiger (in German). Retrieved 1 May 2025.
External links
[edit]- Video von ESI: Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich - The Poisson ratio of the cellular actin cortex is frequency-dependent, eingestellt am 13. April 2021
- Publications by Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich at ResearchGate
- Profile on Scopus
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