Taute Lab

Research positions

Professor of Systems Biophysics of Microbial Dynamics, Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig University, since 2024.
Professor of Quantitative Microbial Population Biology, Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig University, 2023 - 2024.
Deputy Professor of Microbiology, LMU Munich, 2021 - 2023.
Rowland Fellow, The Rowland Institute at Harvard, 2016-2021.
Postdoctoral researcher with Tom Shimizu and Sander Tans, AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2012-2015.
Visiting Graduate Student at the Florin Lab, University of Texas at Austin, 2006-2011.

Dr. rer. nat. in Physics, summa cum laude, University of Leipzig, Germany, 2012.
Physiology Course, Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, 2008.
M. Sc. in Physics, with distinction, University of Leipzig, Germany, 2007.
Postgrad. Dipl. in Physics, with distinction, University of Christchurch, New Zealand, 2005.

Rowland Fellowship, Rowland Institute at Harvard, 2016-2021.
Founders’ Award for Outstanding Postdoctoral Talk at BLAST XIII (Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction meeting), 2015.
Daimler Benz Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, 2007-2009.
The Bruce and Betty Alberts Endowed Scholarship in Physiology, 2008.
The Mountain Memorial Scholarship, 2008.
German National Academic Foundation Scholarship (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), 2004-2006.
DAAD scholarship, 2004.