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Fabian Meder

Senior

Post Doc
Bioinspired Soft Robotics

Phone

+39 050 883093

Research center

CMI@SSSA

About

Fabian Meder graduated in 2008 in Bio-and Nanotechnology from South Westphalia University of Applied Science, Germany and obtained a PhD in Material Science with highest honors from University of Bremen, Germany in 2013 on adsorption processes at biointerfaces and how to guide them by surface functionalization. Before joining IIT in 2017, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany (2016-2017), at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (2016, 6 months), and the Centre for BioNano Interactions at University College Dublin, Ireland (2013-2016), and he worked as a graduate student researcher at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, EMPA, Switzerland (2007-2008). During his career, he collaborated with 14 research groups from 11 institutions and 8 different countries. He supervised a total of 13 PhD, Master, Bachelor and internship students from 6 different countries. His research interest lies in the edge between materials science and biology and the processes occurring at biological and material surfaces at all scales. His current research as a postdoc at IIT focusses on novel energy sources based on electrical phenomena occurring on plant and material surfaces and new materials for soft robotics.

Experience External

Title: Senior Post Doc
Institute: Nanophotonics and Biosensing, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Location: Erlangen
Country: Germany
From: 2016 To: 2017

Title: Visiting Post Doc
Institute: Institute for Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Location: Erlangen
Country: Germany
From: 2016 To: 2016

Title: Post Doc
Institute: Centre for BioNano Interactions, University College Dublin
Location: Dublin
Country: Ireland
From: 2013 To: 2016

Title: PhD Student
Institute: Advanced Ceramics, University of Bremen
Location: null
Country: null
From: 2008 To: 2013

Title: Research Assistant
Institute: High Performance Ceramics, EMPA & Katadyn AG
Location: null
Country: null
From: 2007 To: 2008