Teaching Activities

  • Experimental Biophysics: Methods in Structural and Functional Biophysics, Physics 707.

    Macromolecular crystallography, chemical kinetics, time-resolved crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance, Moessbauer spectroscopy, electron spin resonance spectroscopy.

  • Theoretical Physics: Introduction to Electrodynamics, Physics 422

    Content: Conservation laws, electromagnetic waves, waveguides, gauge transformations retarded potentials, electric and magnetic dipole radiation, radiation by a point charge, electrodynamics and relativity.

  • Theoretical Physics: Introduction to Electrodynamics, Physics 420

    Content: Differential vector calculus from Coulomb’s law to Maxwell’s equations. Mathematical introduction, gradient, curl and divergence, method of images, solutions to Laplace’s equation by separation of variables, multipole expansion, magnetic and electric fields in matter, the magnetic vector potential, boundary conditions, induction, Maxwell’s equations.

  • Experimental Physics: Electricity and Magnetism with Calculus, Physics 210.

    Introductory Physics Course: From Coulomb’s law to Properties of Light. Content: Coulomb’s law, Gauss’ law for electric and magnetic fields, capacitors, Kirchhoff’s rules, Biot-Savart law, Ampere’s law, Faraday’s law, inductors, alternating current, Maxwell’s equations in the integral form, wave equation, wave function, EM radiation, reflection, refraction, diffraction.

  • Biophysics I: Spectroscopic Methods in Molecular Biophysics for Physicists and Biophysicists.

    Content: UV/VIS spectroscopy, ORD, CD, (FT)IR, NMR, pulsed (FT)NMR-1D-2D, (functional) MRI, EPR, pulsed EPR, ENDOR, EXAFS, Mössbauer spectrocopy and their applications in molecular Biophysics

  • Biophysics II: Scattering Methods In Molecular Biophysics for Physicists and Biophysicists.

    Content: Dynamic light scattering, scattering of X-rays, traditional crystallography, time-resolved macromolecular crystallography with the Laue method, holography with X-rays and electrons, electron microscopy, electron tomography and their applications in molecular Biophysics

  • Biophysics for Biologists

    Content: Mathematical basics, chemical kinetics, (time-resolved) UV/Vis and FT-IR spectroscopy, traditional crystallography, time-resolved macromolecular crystallography with the Laue method.