Professor Martin Hegner

Prof. Hegner studied Life Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich in 1984 (CH). He received his Diplom ("master of science") degree in Cellular Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Immunology and Toxicology in 1989 and he completed his PhD thesis in 1994 with work in the field of 'Protein Translocation across Membranes' and 'Biological Scanning Probe Microscopy' at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute for Biochemistry in Zurich. In 1994-96 he had a post-doctoral position at the Institute of Physics in Basel in the laboratory of Prof. H.-J. Güntherodt, a pioneer in the field of scanning probe microscopy. Thereafter ('96-'99) he joined the world leading group of C. Bustamante at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Eugene, OR and then at University of California at Berkeley, CA as a research associate to acquire know-ho in the field of single molecule manipulation with optical tweezers. In 1999 he joined the Institute of Physics at University of Basel (Switzerland) as group and project leader for biological nanoscale science within the newly founded Swiss National Centre of Competence 'Nanoscale Science'. Until today he introduced several novel approaches to investigate molecular interactions with nanomechanical tools. In 2001 he received his 'venia docendi' in Experimental Physics at the University of Basel, Switzerland and in 2007 he joined the Physics faculty of the University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin Ireland. He was appointed as Professor and pursues his interdisciplinary research in the Centre of Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) in the field of Nanobiotechnology.

  Applied physics   Biochemistry   Bioengineering   Biomarker   BIOMOLECULES   Biophysics   BIOSENSOR   Biosensors   Diagnostics   Imaging, image processing   Molecular Biology   Molecular Biophysics   Molecular markers and recognition   Multisensory technology, multi sensing   Nano Biotechnology   NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY   Nanomedicine   Nanotechnology   Nuclei acids, polynucleotides, protein synthesis   Optical Tweezers   Optics   Physics   Positioning and guidance systems   Quality, quality control, traceability   Scanning Probe Microscopy   Sensory science, sensors and instrumentation   Surface and interface physics   Surface chemistry   Surface Funtionalisation

Martin Hegner's scientific interests focus on interdisciplinary research in single molecule manipulation, biophysics, bio-diagnostics and development and application of biological sensing devices. Scientific collaborations around the globe and involve also industrial partners such as Hoffmann La-Roche Ltd. Nanobiotechnology will have a deep impact on our daily lives translating laboratory research into products that will revolutionize healthcare