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MCell and DReAMM People: Markus Dittrich

Markus Dittrich, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher

Education
Diploma in Physics, University of Regensburg (Germany)
Ph.D., Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Role at CQBS
Microphysiological research

Dr. Dittrich earned his Diploma in Physics in 2000 from the University of Regensburg, Germany, in the field of theoretical condensed matter physics. He then focused his research on biological physics and earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the UIUC in 2005, working in the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at the Beckman Institute. His research interests broadly lie in a better qualitative and quantitative understanding of living systems using theoretical and computational approaches from physics, chemistry, and engineering. He has worked on enzyme catalysis, the mechanism of molecular motors such as F1-ATPase and PcrA helicase and is currently interested in investigating spatially realistic 3D cellular models using MCell and DReAMM as part of the CQBS headed by Dr. Stiles.

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