Andreas Bausch
Technische Universität München (TUM)/ Center for Functional Protein Assemblies, Munich, Germany
Prof. Andreas Bausch is Professor of Cellular Biophysics at the Technical University of Munich, where he holds the Heinz Nixdorf Chair in Biophysical Engineering of Living Matter. Trained in physics at TUM and the Université de Montréal, he completed his doctorate at TUM and later worked at Harvard University as an Emmy Noether Fellow. His research focuses on the self-organisation, micromechanics, and non-equilibrium properties of living and biomimetic systems, including cytoskeletal networks, active matter, protein assemblies, and functional biomaterials. He is also the founding director of TUM’s Center for Functional Protein Assemblies.
Prof. Andreas Bausch’s research contributes to SynCell-nExUs through TUM’s expertise in biophysical engineering of living matter, focusing on cytoskeletal mechanics, self-organisation, and active biomimetic systems. His work is closely aligned with the programme’s bottom-up synthetic cell approach, particularly the themes of Division & Replication and Enabling Technologies. By reconstituting and controlling cellular mechanics in simplified cell-like systems, his group helps define design principles for synthetic cells with programmable structure, dynamics, and function.
For more information, visit the BauschLab website
| Main area(s) | Sub-area(s) |
|---|---|
| Metabolism and energy for synthetic cells | Membrane phase separation |
| Synthetic cell division and replication | Minimal contractile cytoskeletons and division rings Artificial motility systems |
| Enabling technologies for synthetic cells | Droplet-based microfluidics Phospholipid-based Synthetic Cells |