IMPRS-PM OOF-Lectures
by Prof. Vahid Sandoghdar, Prof. Vasily Zaburdaev, Dr.med. Markus Eckstein and Prof. Alexandra Schambony
On July 20th and 27th we had our first OOF-lectures at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL).
The “out-of-your-field” lectures were given by IMPRS-PM PIs who provided an insight into topics from both the physics and the biological & medical scope.
Prof Vahid Sandoghdar (MPL Director and IMPRS-PM spokesperson) and Prof Vasily Zaburdaev (FAU Professor and IMPRS-PM spokesperson) introduced the PhD students who usually work in biological projects into topics from physics and mathematics. Prof Alexandra Schambony (FAU Professor) and Dr Markus Eckstein (University Hospital Erlangen) created their introductory lectures into biological and medical topics specifically for PhD students from physics to provide them with background knowledge of biological processes.
The theoretical OOF-lectures support the natural scientists and clinicians to jointly tackle challenges at the interface of physics, biology and medicine, e.g., by studying and understanding physical interactions that govern many of the complex biological processes, which may lead to health hazards if they deviate from their norm.
