Teaching

Theoretical Biophysics


Ca. 190 MB PowerPoint file of a one semester lecture concerning mostly the theory of stochastic systems, but presenting also material about probability theory, path integrals, hydrodynamics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and much more.

Electricity & Magnetism


Ca. 570 MB PowerPoint file of a one semester lecture for bachelor students. Basics of electricity, magnetism, Maxwell's equations, special relativity, electric and magnetic fields in matter. Material presented in cgs-units.

Introduction Into Biophysics


Ca. 32 MB PowerPoint file of a one semester lecture about the basics of biophysics for bachelor students. Most of the material concerns classical statistical thermodynamics in the context of biological systems.

Nonlinear Dynamics & Chaos


Mathematica Notebook (100 MB) presenting material along the content of the classical textbook "Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos" by Steven H. Strogatz.

Physics Of Fluorescence Microscopy


Ca. 150 MB PowerPoint presentation of a 3 hour lecture presenting the physical foundations of fluorescence microscopy, starting from Maxwell's equations. Part of this course was presented as a tutorial during the 2024 Focus on Microscopy conference in Genoa (Italy).

Microscopy For Biologists


Ca. 570 MB PowerPoint presentation of a 4.5 hour lecture presenting some introduction into the history and fundamentals of optics and microscopy for non-physicists. A complementary tutorial can be found as PDF here.

Waves And Optics


PowerPoint presentation of the first part of a one semester lecture about waves and optics. The first part contains material about mechanical oscillations and waves, electric oscillators, acoustic waves (Part 1), the second part is devoted to Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves(Part 2), and the third part to optics (Part 3). 

Nano-Optics and Plasmonics


Ca. 110 MB PowerPoint presentation of the theoretical part of a one semester lecture about nano-optics and plasmonics. Crash course in Maxwell's electrodynamics (also in matter), Fresnel relations, multi-layer systems, metal plasmons, dipole emitters.

Advanced Spectroscopy and Microscopy


Ca. 40 MB PowerPoint presentation of the first part of a one semester lecture about advanced fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy. 

Crash Course In Differential Forms


Ca. 50 MB PowerPoint presentation of an 8 lecture block course about differential forms.  Topics are: What are differential forms, folding, wedge product, metric tensor, Hodge star dual, gradient, divergence, and curl, integration of differential forms, Stokes theorem, Maxwell's electromagnetism with differential forms, Faraday 2-form, Cartan's connection 1-forms, Christoffel symbols, covariant derivative, Lie derivative, Riemann curvature 2-form, Ricci tensor, Ricci scalar, and Einstein tensor.
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