Prof. Dr. Kristian Franze

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsDevelopmental Biology,Biophysics
KeywordsNeurowissenschaft, Mechanotransduktion, Mechanobiologie, Rasterkraftmikroskopie, Biophysik
Honours and awards

2020: Alexander von Humboldt Professur

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityErlangen
InstitutionFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Christine E. HoltDepartment of Physics - Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim HorneggerFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2008

Program(s)

2008Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs
2019Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

Publications (partial selection)

2010Andreas F. Christ, Kristian Franze, Helen Gautier, Pouria Moshayedi, James Fawcett, Robin J. M. Franklin, Ragnhildur t. Karadottir, Jochen Guck Mechanical difference between white and gray matter in the rat cerebellum measured by scanning force microscopy. In: J Biomech, 2010,
2010Pouria Moshayedi, Luciano da F Costa, Andreas Christ, Stephanie Lacour, James Fawcett, Jochen Guck, Kristian Franze Mechanosensitivity of astrocytes on optimized polyacrylamide gels analyzed by quantitative morphometry. In: J Phys Condens Matter, 2010,
2010Rosa Poetes, Kathrin Holtzmann, Kristian Franze, Ulrich Steiner: Metastable underwater superhydrophobicity. In: Phys Rev Let, 2010,
2010Niclas Lindqvist, Qing Liu, Joachim Zajadacz, Kristian Franze, Andreas Reichenbach: Retinal Glial (Muller) Cells Sense and Respond to Tissue Stretch. In: Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 2010, 1683-1690
2010Kristian Franze and Jochen Guck: The biophysics of neuronal growth. In: Rep Prog Phys, 2010,
2009Kristian Franze, Jens Gerdelmann, Michael Weick, Timo Betz, Steve Pawlizak, Melike Lakadamyali, Johannes Bayer, Katja Rillich, Michael Gogler, Yun-Bi Lu, Andreas Reichenbach, Paul Janmey, Josef Kas: Neurite branch retraction is caused by a threshold-dependent mechanical impact. In: Biophys J, 2009, 1883-1890