Research Interests
Biophysics Bioengineering, Biochemistry
Research Statement
Matthias Meier is a biophysicist who received his PhD in 2006 at the University of Basel. In 2008 he was awarded with the Feodor-Lynen postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and worked 4 years at Stanford University. With help of an Emmy-Noether-Fellowship from the German Research Foundation he returned to Europe and established an independent research group at the Microsystem Engineering department of the University of Freiburg. In 2018 Matthias Meier joined the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus. His present research aims to develop and use pancreatic and adipose organoids on chip. For the study of the chemical, cellular architectural, and mechanical microenvironment of human inducible pluripotent stem cell derived organoids he develops microfluidic technologies.
