Petra Schwille PhD

Petra Schwille is Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, and Honorary Professor at the LMU Munich. She studied physics and philosophy in Stuttgart and Gottingen and graduated 1993 with Diploma in Physics at the Georg August University, Gottingen. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1996 from the TU Braunschweig, with a thesis on Fluorescence (Cross-)Correlation Spectroscopy, performed at the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen. After a postdoctoral stay at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, she returned to the MPI Gottingen as a research group leader, financed by the BMBF Biofuture grant, in 1999. Her scientific interests range from single-molecule biophysics to the synthetic biology of reconstituted systems.