Professor Peer Fischer

Peer Fischer is a Professor of Experimental Physics in the Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials at Heidelberg University, and he directs the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg. He received a BSc degree in Physics from Imperial College London and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University, and a Rowland Fellow at Harvard where he headed an interdisciplinary research lab for five years. Peer Fischer won a Fraunhofer Attract Award, two European Union ERC Grants, and a World Technology Award. He is a member of the Max Planck – EPFL Center for Molecular Nanoscience and Technology and the cluster of excellence 3D Matter Made to Order. Professor Fischer is an Editorial Board Member of the journal Science Robotics and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Peer Fischer has broad research interests including 3D nanofabrication & assembly, micro- and nano-robotics, active matter, interaction of optical, electric, magnetic, and acoustic fields with matter at small length scales, chirality and molecular systems engineering.