Do you want to work in an internationally linked lab, combining cutting edge technology from physics, optics and biochemistry? We recreate how Life could originate on Earth in the lab. At the focus are replication, accumulation and selection in heat-driven, non-equilibrium molecule traps to trigger prebiotic molecular evolution. We design and build our unique experimental setups ourselves, combining chemistry of RNA with physics of thermal gradients using microfluidics, fluorescence microscopy, finite element theory and programming. We are making fast progress, publishing in leading journals such as PRL, PNAS, Nature Physics, Nature Chemistry and Nature.
The spin-off Nanotemper was founded in our lab by Stefan Duhr and Philipp Baaske, then PhD students, now heading their own company with more then >100 employees and winning prestigious awards. Our lab continues to push for novel methods for biology, including molecule binding screens or innovative light sheet microscopies.
We link Bachelor projects with PhD students. For Master thesis, please inquire personally. We continously seek independent minds with a cross-disciplinary attitude between biophysics and chemistry, experiment and theory. Please inquire for PhD positions here or through the CRC 392 Molecular evolution in prebiotic environments. In case you are interested to join the lab, stop by or inquire directly by email 
dieter.braun@lmu.de or phone: 2180-1484.
