Employment and Research Experience
  • 2019:  Emmy Noether Research Group Leader, Institute of Biophysics, Department of Physics, Goethe University, Frankfurt. 
  • 2016 - 2018: Project Leader in SFB807, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Frankfurt. 
  • 2014 - 2016: Postdoctoral Fellow at  Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Frankfurt & Visiting Researcher at Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, USA

 

Education

  • 2014:  Dr.Sc. in Biophysics and EPR spectroscopy, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

  • 2008:  M. Eng. in Advanced Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan

 

Research Grants

  • 2020: Pulsed Q-Band ESR Spectrometer (Großgeräteantrag)

  • 2019: Emmy Noether Research Group Leader (DFG)

  • 2016 - 2020: Project Leader in SFB807 (DFG)

  • 2014 - 2016: Independent Investigator (European Union)

 

Fellowships and Awards:

  • 2018: Member of the Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe (JQYA)

  • 2018: Young Investigator Award of the German Biophysical Society, Germany

  • 2018: The honor of 'Outstanding Personalities in Science with a Migration Background' from the City of Frankfurt, Germany. 

  • 2017: Adolf-Messer Prize, Germany

  • 2013: Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, Germany

  • 2008: Monbukagakusho Ph.D. Fellowship, Govt. of Japan (declined)

  • 2004: UNESCO-JAPAN Fellowship, Japan

 

Research Interests

  • Electron spin resonance spectroscopy

  • Membrane transport mechanisms

  • Membrane biogenesis

  • In-situ / cellular structural biology

 

Address

Institut für Biophysik

Room _ _.413 (ground floor)

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität

60438 Frankfurt/Main
Max von Laue-Str. 1
joseph[@]biophysik.uni-frankfurt.de