Friedrich Simmel

Friedrich C. Simmel (born 1970) is a German biophysicist and professor at the Technical University Munich. He is a researcher in the field of DNA nanotechnology and is best known for his work on DNA nanomachines and dynamic DNA-based systems.

Simmel received a PhD in experimental physics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1999. From 2000 to 2002 he was a PostDoctoral researcher at Bell Labs. He joined the faculty of the Technical University Munich as a full professor in 2007.

Awards and memberships

 * 2006 Human frontier science program (HFSP) young investigator award
 * 2009 Vice President (2009) of the International Society of Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering (ISNSCE)
 * 2010 President (2009) of the International Society of Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering (ISNSCE)
 * 2013 Elected Member of the National Academy of Science and Technology (acatech)

Works

 * DNA-based self-assembly of chiral plasmonic nanostructures with tailored optical response, Anton Kuzyk, Robert Schreiber, Zhiyuan Fan, Günther Pardatscher, Eva-Maria Roller, Alexander Högele, Friedrich C. Simmel, Alexander O. Govorov, Tim Liedl, Nature, 483, 311-314, 2012