Prof. Tanaka
Lehrstuhlinhaber
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CV
Educational Records
1995M.S. (Physical Chemistry)
Department of Molecular Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan
1998Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry)
Department of Molecular Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan
2005Habilitation (Experimental Physics)
Department of Physics, Technical University Munich, Germany
Professional Career
1997Visiting PhD student, Institute of Biomedicine,
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (Host: Prof. P.K.J. Kinnunen)
1998 – 2001Postdoc, Department of Physics (Biophysics Lab),
Technical University Munich, Germany (Advisor: Prof. E. Sackmann)
1998, 1999 Visiting scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research,
Mainz, Germany (Host: Prof. G. Wegner)
2000 – 2002 Guest scholar, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
(Hosts: Profs. A.P. Gast, G.G. Fuller, S.G. Boxer)
2001 – 2005 Independent group leader (Biofunctional Interface Group),
Department of Physics, Technical University Munich, Germany
2004Invited lecturer, Department of Physics and Center of Excellence,
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (Hosts: Profs. H. Seto, K. Yoshikawa)
2005 – Professor, Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences,
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
2007 – Member, Center for Quantitative Analysis of Molecular and Cellular Network (BIOQUANT), Heidelberg, Germany
2007 –Member, International Graduate School “Molecular and Cellular Biology”, Heidelberg, Germany
2007 –  Associated faculty member, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Fellowships
1993 – 1996Graduate student fellowship, Japan
1997 – 1998PhD/post-doc fellowship,
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, Japan)
1997Visiting PhD student fellowship, Center for International Mobility,
Finnish Academy (Finland)
1999 – 2001 Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) fellowship (Germany)
2001 – 2005 Emmy Noether fellowship for young principal investigators (first foreign award winner), the German Science Foundation (DFG, Germany)
International Exchange
2000 – 2006Member, French-German Collaborative Network,
“Complex Fluids in Two and a Half Dimension”
2001   External exchange partner, NSF-MRSEC Center
“Center of Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies”
2006 –Member, Canadian Advanced Foods and Materials Network and Centers of Excellence