Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Alipasha Vaziri
Assoziierte Professur am Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie
Curriculum Vitae:
2000 M.Sc. in Physics, University of Vienna, summa cum laude, Masters thesis: "Conservation of the Orbital Angular Momentum of Entangled Photon States with Singularities" with Prof. Anton Zeilinger
2000-2003 Research Scientist and Assistant Lecturer, University of Vienna
2003 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Vienna, with Prof. Anton Zeilinger, experiments in quantum information with entangled photons
2003 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Vienna, summa cum laude, PhD thesis: "Quantum Experiments using Higher Dimensional Entangled Photon States with Singularities" with Prof. Anton Zeilinger
2003-2005 Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) & University of Maryland, with Nobel Laureate Dr. William Phillips, quantum resonances in a sodium Bose Einstein Condensates (BEC)
2005-2007 Associate, McKinsey & Company Strategic business consultant high-tech sector
2007-2011 Research Specialist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus 3D super-resolution microscopy and patterned optogenetics
2008-2012 Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Chemistry
2010 WWTF Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators Award
2012 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Young Investigators' Award
2012-2013 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg zur Berlin), Focus Group Quantum Mechanical Processes in Biological Systems
2011-2014 Assistant Professor, Center for Molecular Biology, University of Vienna, Dynamics of coupled biological systems
since 2011 Group Leader, Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
since 2013 Head of the Research Platform Quantum Phenomena and Nanoscale Biological Systems (QuNaBioS), University of Vienna
2014 Prize of the City of Vienna
since July 2014 Associate Professor, Department of Structural and Computational Biology, University of Vienna
Research Areas:
* Optogenetics and development of new functional imaging techniques for interrogation of neuronal network activity
* Systems neuroscience
* Super-resolution imaging and optical force spectroscopy