Gerd E Schröder-Turk 26th ACMM “2020 Visions in Microscopy”

Gerd E Schröder-Turk

Dr Gerd Schröder-Turk received his PhD degree from the Australian National University in 2005, for his thesis “Skeletons in the Labyrinth” on geometric aspects of the self-assembly of bicontinuous phases in soft matter systems. He refers to his field of research as ‘Materials geometry’, that is, the materials science and physics of complex nanostructured materials and tissues, addressed through the goggles of geometry. His research revolves around the role, formation and quantitative description of structure in soft matter and biological systems, and its repercussions for physical properties and function. He has held academic appointments at the Australian National University (2005-06), at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU, 2006-2015) and Murdoch University (2015-present), and has been a visiting fellow of the Australian National University (2014), Swinburne University (2012), and of Lund University and Copenhagen University (2019). He completed a habilition degree at the FAU in 2013, for which he received the Emmy-Noether-Prize in 2014. In 2019, he was awarded the Camurus Lipid Research Foundation Fellowship award and was elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is currently an Associate Professor at Murdoch University in Perth, an elected member of the Senate of Murdoch University and a member of the National Executive of the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP). He was the chairman of a number of international conferences, including most recently the Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics in 2018 in Perth and the Boden Research Conference Animal, Vegetal, Mineral in 2016. He takes a keen interest in all aspects of higher education strategies and in university governance.