Björn Reinhard

Assistant Professor

Physical, Biophysical, and Materials Chemistry

Office: PHO 718-- Lab: PHO 706
Phone: (617) 353-8669 (Office)
Fax: (617) 353-6466
E-mail: bmr@bu.edu

Office hours: Mondays 10 am to 12

• Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, 2004-2006

• Dr. rer. nat., Technical University Kaiserslautern, 2003

• Diploma, Technical University Munich, 2000

• Intermediate Diploma, University of Bielefeld, 1997

• 2006 Call to Nanobiocenter at Odense University, Denmark (Declined)
• 2006 Juan de la Cierva Award
• 2005 DFG Research Scholarship
• 2004 Otto Wipprecht Fellowship
• 2004 Scholarship for the 51st Annual Western Spectroscopy Association Conference
• 1995 Award of the German Chemical Industry Fund

I am interested in the design, implementation, and characterization of new tools for imaging and manipulation of “hard” (inorganic) and “soft” (biological) materials. One aim is to produce hybrid materials that combine the interesting electronic/optical properties of inorganic materials with the structural properties of biological materials. We are currently also developing new probes and sensing schemes to characterize the function and dynamics of individual biological molecules and complexes. The ultimate goal of these studies is to generate reliable tools that can grant insight into fundamental biological processes on a single molecule level.

• http://www.bmreinhard.net

• Link to publications