Single-cell mass and PicoBalance
High-speed mass measurements of living cells, including water-homeostasis dynamics, growth, infection signatures, eigenfrequency, and quality factor.
Dr. Gotthold Viktor Fläschner
I like to solve puzzles.
...especially the ones where nature refuses to stay inside one discipline. I work at the intersection of physics and biology: measuring living systems, building methods, and using theory to understand what cells sense and do. What draws me in is the tension between mathematical beauty and real-world use. That is why I often work across boundaries: between physics and biology, theory and experiment, academia and industry, research and communication. I also care strongly about open science, because good ideas should travel further than the walls of a single lab.
About
At home between physics, biology, theory, and tools.
I studied physics in Hamburg, where I first worked on ultra-low-temperature physics in a group connected to quantum teleportation experiments. During my PhD at ETH Zurich, I moved into biophysics and worked on methods to measure the mass, resonance, damping, and mechanical properties of living cells. I then joined Nanosurf AG, where I worked on translating my research into products, applications, and workflows for researchers. Today, as a postdoctoral researcher at IBEC Barcelona, I have returned to fundamental mechanobiology: trying to understand how cells sense, respond to, and build the physical world around them.
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Research themes
AFM-based mechanobiology
Mechanical characterization of cells and biomaterials, cantilever calibration, nanomechanical mapping, and quantitative instrumentation.
Viscoelastic mechanotransduction
Current work on how cells respond to elastic and viscous substrate cues, using hydrogels, modeling, microscopy, and data-driven dynamics.
Contact
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