Honors and Professional Activities
Member, German Physical Society; German Biophysical Society; American Physical Society,
American Chemical Society; U.S. Biophysical Society.
Fellow, American Physical Society.
Workshop organization: International Workshop on Current Problems in Complex Fluids, Puebla,
Mexico, 2010, and Huatulco, Mexico, 2012; German-U.S. Graduate Research School on Polymeric
Materials, Cap Roig, Spain, 2007; International Bunsen-Meeting on Interactions of Biopolymers with
Model Membranes, Halle, Germany, 2000; European Conference on Interface Science (ECIS), Mainz,
Germany, 1991.
Lecturership: Guest lecturer, École d'été de physique théorique, Les Houches, France
Tan Chin Tuan Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Panel review: National Institutes of Health, 2007 – 2012 and ongoing, National Science Foundation
2004 – 2010; Science Review Committee, Neutron Scattering Program at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, 2010 – 2013.
Journal review (past 5 years): Biophys. J., Soft Matter, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., J. Chem. Phys.,
Phys. Rev. E, Biochim. Biophys. Acta., Angew. Chemie, Langmuir, J. Appl. Phys., Thin Solid Films,
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Chem. Comm., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Phys. Rev. Letters, ChemPhysChem,
Nature, J. Struct. Biol., Biointerphases, J. Phys. Chem.