Casimir

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INDIVIDUALLY FUNDED POSITIONS

Molecular Biophysics

• Optical and magnetic tweezer studies of DNA repair and chromatin
• Optical-tweezer force spectroscopy on protein complexes
• Translocation through biomimetic nanopores
• Single-molecule studies of cell division of bacteria confined within nanochannels
• Graphene nanopores for translocation and sequencing of DNA
• Live-cell imaging of single proteins in E.coli.
• Single-molecule force spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy of proteins involved in cell division
• Magnetic torque tweezers and their applications.
• Single-molecule studies of DNA/RNA replication and transcription
• Magnetic and optical torque tweezers and their applications.
• Folding of biological molecules
• Studying polymerization using zero-mode waveguides.

Physics of Nanostructures

• Mesoscopics and response to radiation
• In-situ NanoElectrical Measurements in a Transmission Electron Microscope (NEMinTEM)

Quantum Matter and Functional Materials

• Graphene and Topological Insulators
• Condensed Matter Theory
• Live observation of film growth with in-situ STM

Quantum Information and quantum optics

• Quantum entanglement of single spins and photons
• Entanglement of individual electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots