Prof. Dr. Omar Adel Saleh

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsStatistical Physics, Soft Matter, Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics
KeywordsSel-assembly, Mechanics of soft matter, DNA, Biopolymer physics, Single-molecule biophysics

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CitySanta Barbara
InstitutionUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
InstituteMaterials Department and Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Tim LiedlSektion Physik und Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2017

Programme(s)

2017Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Saleh is an international authority in the mechanics and electrostatics of DNA. He has pioneered the use of high-precision experiments that use mechanical manipulation to measure electrostatic forces and salt associations of single DNA molecules, with immediate implications for molecular biology. In Germany, he intends to research DNA mechanics at a larger length scale, particularly studying the behaviour of large assemblies of DNA that mimic the physical structure of the genome.