Nanobiotechnology

Biography

Gerd Kaupp has completed his PhD at the age of 24 years from Würzburg University and postdoctoral studies from Iowa State, Lausanne, and Freiburg University. He held a full-professorship till 2005 in Oldenburg, Germany, and he privately continues his research on AFM on rough surfaces (since 1988), the as yet better resolving sub-diffraction limit microscopy also for non-fluorescing materials, even rough ones, of all types (resolution <10 nm, since 1995), and nano-indentations (since 2000). He has published more than 300 papers in renowned journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of several scientific journals.

Research Interest

Physics of nanosized mechanics and local detection