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Ernst-Ludwig Florin

  • Associate Professor
  • Physics
  • Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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florin@chaos.utexas.edu
Center for Nonlinear Dynamics

Research

Florin is an experimentalist researching in areas of biophysics, cell physics and nonlinear dynamics.

Research Areas

  • Biophysics or Structural Biology

Fields of Interest

  • Biophysics & Nonlinear Dynamics

Centers and Institutes

  • Center for Nonlinear Dynamics

Education

  • Ph.D., Technical University, Munich, Germany (1995)

Publications

  • Bartsch, T.F., R.A. Longoria, E.-L. Florin, and G.T. Shubeita, 2013, Lipid droplets purified from Drosophila embryos as an endogenous handle for precise motor transport measurements, Biophysical Journal, in press.

    Beer, A., S. Strain, R. Hernandez, E. Ben-Jacob, and E.-L. Florin, 2013, Periodic reversals in Paenibacillus dendritiformis swarming, Journal of Bacteriology, 195: 2709-2717.

    Demergis, V. and E.-L. Florin, 2012, Ultra-strong optical binding of metallic nanoparticles, Nano Letters, 12, 5756-5760.

    Kochanczyk, M.D., T.F. Bartsch, K.M. Taute, and E.-L. Florin, 2012, Power Spectral Density Integration Analysis and its application to large bandwidth, high precision position measurements, SPIE, 8458, DOI:10.1117/12.929349.

    Demergis, V. and E.-L. Florin, 2011, High precision and continuous optical transport using a standing wave optical line trap, Optics Express, 19 (21): 20833-48.

    Huang, R., I. Chavez, K.M. Taute, B. Lukic, S. Jeney, M.G. Raizen, and E.-L. Florin, 2011, Direct observation of the full transition from ballistic to diffusive Brownian motion in a liquid, Nature Physics, 7, 576–580.

    Be’er, A., E.-L. Florin, C. Fisher, H.L. Swinney, S.M. Payne, 2011, Surviving bacterial sibling rivalry: Inducible and reversible phenotypic switching in Paenibacillus dendritiformis, mBio, 2(3):e00069-11. DOI:10.1128/mBio.00069-11.

    Zhang, H.P., A. Be’er, E.-L. Florin, and H.L. Swinney, 2010, Collective motion and density fluctuations in bacterial colonies, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 107 (31): 13626-13630.

Awards

  • Nanoscience Prize (2003)