Jie Deng

Jie is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He received his B.S. (2014) and M.S. (2017) degrees from Sichuan University, China under the supervision of Prof. Changsheng Zhao. During 2016-2017, he joined Prof. Joachim P. Spatz's group at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research as a research based project student. His scientific interests were focused on stimuli responsive biointerfaces, hydrogel materials and cell/material interactions. Jie's current research interest in Prof. Andreas Walther's group is to fabricate non-equilibrium, life-inspired DNA-based active matter and time-programmed materials.