Prof. Dr. Torsten John

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsTheoretical Biological Chemistry,Biophysical Chemistry
KeywordsPeptide Fibrils, Biomaterials, DNA Nanotechnology, Self-assembly, Computational Design
Honours and awards

2022: Young Scientist at 70th and 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

2021: Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2021: Finalist for Leibniz Dissertation Award, Leibniz Association

2020: Junior Researcher Award, Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM)

2019: Young European Talent Program (YET) in Maastricht, Netherlands

2018: Awarded as an Element of the IUPAC Periodic Table of Younger Chemists

2018: Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australian Government

2018: Finalist for EuChemS European Young Chemist Award (EYCA)

2017: SciFinder/CAS Future Leaders Award, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)

2016: Early Career Researcher Award, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)

2016: PhD Fellowship, Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES)

2015: DFG Graduate School Member, CRC TRR 102 iRTG ‚Polymers: random coils and beyond’

2014: Summer Research Fellowship, The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia

2013: Fellow of the Life Science College, German Academic Scholarship Foundation

2013: ISAP Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

2013: NESACS-GDCh Student Exchange, Boston and New Haven, USA

2012: DFG Research Fellowship, Graduate School BuildMoNa, Leipzig University

2012: RISE Worldwide Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

2012: Study Scholarship, Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES)

2009: GDCh Graduate Award, German Chemical Society (GDCh)

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBremen
InstitutionConstructor University
InstituteSchool of Science

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Mark BatheDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Prof. Dr. Tanja WeilAbteilung für Synthetische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz
Prof. Dr. Mark BatheAbteilung für Synthetische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2021

Programme(s)

2020Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2024Stephen O. Aderinto, Torsten John, Abdulmujeeb Onawole, Raphael Peter Galleh, Jim A. Thomas: Iridium(III)-based minor groove binding complexes as DNA photocleavage agents. In: Dalton Transactions, 53, 2024, 7282–7291
2024Jeffrey Gorman, Stephanie M. Hart, Torsten John, Maria A. Castellanos, Dvir Harris, Molly F. Parsons, James L. Banal, Adam P. Willard, Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen, Mark Bathe: Sculpting photoproducts with DNA origami. In: Chem, 10, 2024, 1553–1575
2022Xiao Wang, Shanshan Li, Hyungmin Jun, Torsten John, Kaiming Zhang, Hannah Fowler, Jonathan P. K. Doye, Wah Chiu, Mark Bathe: Planar 2D wireframe DNA origami. In: Science Advances, 8, 2022, eabn0039
2021Hyungmin Jun, Xiao Wang, Molly F. Parsons, William P. Bricker, Torsten John, Shanshan Li, Steve Jackson, Wah Chiu, Mark Bathe: Rapid prototyping of arbitrary 2D and 3D wireframe DNA origami. In: Nucleic Acids Research, 49, 2021, 10265-10274