Profile

Professional career

• 12/1996 - 12/2000
  Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
• 12/1996 - 12/2002
  Member, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin
• 12/1996 - 12/2002
  Assistant Professor, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin
• 01/2000 - 12/2001
  Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
• 01/2001 - 12/2002
  Full-Professor, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
• since 01/2002
  Full Professor, Division for Soft Matter Physics, Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig University
• since 01/2002
  Head, Division for Soft Matter Physics, Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig University
• 01/2008 - 12/2016
  Director, Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig University
• since 01/2016
  Member, Leipzig University Cancer Center
• 11/1993 - 11/1996
  Postdoc, Harvard Medical School, Boston

Education

• 09/1984 - 09/1987
  Bachelor (Physics), Columbia University, New York
• 09/1987 - 09/1990
  Diplom (Physics), Physics Department, Technical University Munich,
• 10/1990 - 10/1993
  Dr.rer.nat. Physics Department, Technical University Munich

Panel Memberships

• since 01/1990
  Member, American Physical Society
• since 01/1990
  Member, Biophysical Society
• since 01/1990
  Member, German Physical Society
• since 01/1993
  Member, American Society of Cell Biology
• since 01/2000
  Member, Materials Research Society
• since 01/2002
  Member, German Biophysical Society
• since 01/2010
  Member, German Society for Cell Biology

My research focuses on a quantitative understanding of biological cell phenotype and function from a complex, emerging materials perspective encompassing all length scales from molecules to tissues, which places our group in a pioneering and leading position in the novel area Physics of Cancer.

• Plasma Membrane Rigidity Directly Influences Cell Migration

  Käs, Josef Alfons

  Duration: 01/2019 – 12/2021

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Physik weicher Materie/Zellbiophysik; Institut für Medizinische Physik und Biophysik
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• What Holds Cancer Cells Back?

  Käs, Josef Alfons

  Duration: 08/2017 – 07/2022

  Funded by: ERC European Research Council

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Physik weicher Materie/Zellbiophysik
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• Mechanical Impact of Solid Tumours on Tissues

  Käs, Josef Alfons

  Duration: 01/2016 – 12/2019

  Funded by: EU Europäische Union

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Physik weicher Materie/Zellbiophysik
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• Blebbing Driven or Actin Protrusive-Force Driven Cancer Cell Migration

  Käs, Josef Alfons

  Duration: 06/2015 – 05/2018

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Physik weicher Materie/Zellbiophysik; Abt. Biologische Physik; Biotechnologisch-Biomedizinisches Zentrum (BBZ)
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• Mechanisms of actin-based force generation, morphodynamics and motility of single cells

  Käs, Josef Alfons

  Duration: 01/2015 – 06/2018

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Physik weicher Materie/Zellbiophysik; Biotechnologisch-Biomedizinisches Zentrum (BBZ)
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