Thorben Cordes
Professorship:
Biophysical Chemistry, 1 September 2024
Department:
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Studies and doctorate:
- 2008: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, LMU München, Germany
- 2005: Diploma in Chemistry (Dipl. Chem.), Faculty of Life Sciences, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Stages:
- 2017-2024: Professor for Physical and Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Biology, LMU München, Germany
- 2011-2017: Assistant and tenured Associate Professor for Biophysics, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- 2010-2011: Postdoc in Biophysics with Achillefs Kapanidis, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK
- 2008-2009: Postdoc in Biophysics with Philip Tinnefeld, Faculty of Physics, LMU München, Germany
Focus in research:
- Fluorescence microscopy and optical spectroscopy
- Optical single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging
- Spectroscopy of fluorescent dyes and chromophores
- Biochemistry and biophysics of (membrane transport) proteins