Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg



Leon Lettermann

Research Interests

    • Physics of Movement in Cellular Level Biological Systems
    • Movement Apparatus of Apicomplexan Parasites
    • Theory of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
    • Coordinated Tissue Movement in Embryonic Development
    • Automated and AI Supplemented Processing of Experimental Data

Short Vita

    since June 2022
    PhD student at Heidelberg University, Institute for Theoretical Physics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz
    Working on the Movement Apparatus of Malaria Parasites as part of Physics of Parasitism in collaboration with the Frischknecht Lab
    March 2020 - Mai 2022
    Master of Science in Physics at Göttingen University, Germany
    Thesis: "PhysNODE: A Data-Driven Modeling Framework by Means of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations - Applied to Spatio-Temporal Dynamical Systems and 3D Zebrafish Development", under supervison of Prof. Dr. Timo Betz and Prof. Dr. Florentin Wörgötter
    October 2015 - March 2020
    Bachelor of Science in Physics at Göttingen University, Germany
    Thesis: "Dynamical Condensation of QCD Axion Dark Matter during Late Radiation Domination", under supervision of Dr. Erik W. Lentz and Prof. Dr. David J.E. Marsh
    October 2015 - April 2019
    Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Göttingen University, Germany
    Thesis: "Chen-Ruan Cohomology of Orbifolds", under supervision by Prof. Dr. Thomas Schick

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Teaching activities

    • Winter term 2022/2023, Tutor in Complex Systems for Heidelberg cohort of MPS Matter to Life
    • Tutoring of different courses including Experimental Physics I, Mathematics for Physicists III and Statistical Thermodynamics in Göttingen

Address

Leon Lettermann
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg

BioQuant - Center for Quantitative Biology
Im Neuenheimer Feld 267
Room 163
69120 Heidelberg, Germany

email: lettermann at uni-heidelberg.de
phone: +49-(0)6221-54-51253
http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~biophys
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