Professor Kay-Eberhard Gottschalk
Vice President Research and Innovation

Areas of responsibility

  • Further development, key issues and strategic planning for research and the interdisciplinary research profile
  • Research funding – Center for Research Strategy and Support (Res.UL)
  • Further development, policy issues and strategic planning for technology transfer 
  • Scientific infrastructure
  • Innovation and start-up activities – Entrepreneurs Campus

 

Brief CV

Born:

1972

Education and training:

1993–1998:             Studied Chemistry at the University of Bonn
1997–1998:Research Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, USA
2002:              Award of a doctoral degree, Technical University of Munich (summa cum laude)

Professional experience:

2002–2005:   Postdoctoral researcher, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
2005–2009:                                               Head of a Junior Research Group, Chair of Applied Physics and Biophysics,
LMU Munich
2010–2011:Head of the ‘Nanostructure’ Research Group (tenure track), Centre for Innovation in Humoral Immune Responses in Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Greifswald
Since 2011:W3 Professor of Bionanomechanics, Ulm University
2011–2021:Head of the international master’s programme in “Advanced Materials”, Ulm University
2020–2023:Vice Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ulm University
Since 2023:Member of the Executive Board, Academy for Science, Business and Technology, Ulm University
Since 2023:Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ulm University
Since 2026:Vice President Research and Innovation

Main research focuses:

Mechanobiology of cells
Integrins and focal adhesion complexes
Cell mechanics in senescence and stress

 

 

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