Vasily Zaburdaev

...is a professor of “Mathematics in Life Sciences” at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He received his PhD in Physics in 2004 at the Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” in Moscow and after three postdoctoral stays at the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organisation in Goettingen (2004-07), TU Berlin (2007-09), and at Harvard (2009-11) he became a group leader at the MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany in 2011. In 2018 he became a chair (full professor) of Mathematics in Life Sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuernberg. He is also a scientific board member of the recently founded Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin in Erlangen.

Vasily‘s group develops theoretical models used to understand complex biological phenomena and their implications for disease. The team brings expertise in theoretical biophysics, statistical physics and numerical methods and works in close collaboration with experimental groups. We investigate organizational principles operating at the range of scales from chromatin in the cell nucleus to the multicellular aggregates and employ approaches from the theory of stochastic processes to the continuum theory of active hydrodynamics. The focus is on understanding the physical mechanisms governing complex biological systems not in thermal equilibrium. We have a growing interest in the quantitative description of immunological and inflammatory processes.

This research is part of Project 18 of the SPP 2332 PoP