Marco Tarantola
Curriculum Vitae
| Employment | |
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| 2017 - | PI in Volkswagen grant 'Life' |
| 2015 - | PI in SFB 937, Georg August Universität Goettingen |
| 2014 - | Project Leader "Dictyostelium biophysics", Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, with Prof. Dr. Eberhard Bodenschatz |
| 2012 - 2013 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Theoretical and Biological Physics, UCSD, San Diego, with Prof. Dr. William Loomis and Prof. Dr. Wouter-Jan Rappel |
| 2011 - 2012 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, with Prof. Dr. Eberhard Bodenschatz |
| 2010 - 2011 | Scientific Coordinator of the proposal for DFG Collaborative Research Centre 937, Theoretical Physics, Göttingen, with Prof. Dr. Annette Zippelius |
| Scientific graduation | |
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| 2006 - 2010 |
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), Chemistry, University of Mainz, Prof. Dr. Andreas Janshoff Title of PhD thesis: Dynamics of epithelial monolayers assessed by acoustic and impedimetric whole cell biosensors: Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) and electrical cell-substrate impedance sensing (ECIS) as novel tools to address cell motility and nanocytotoxicity |
| Projects | |
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| 2011 - 2012 |
PI/Co-PI
Direct Simulation of the Human Upper Airway (No. CTS110059), PI, XSEDE project, USA |
| 2011 - 2015 |
Participant
Modeling the Pediatric Upper Airway Using Anatomic Optical Coherence Tomography and Computational Fluid Dynamics (DNS) (No. 1R01HL105215, 5R01HL1052), NIH funding, USA |
| Scientific skills | |
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| Numerical methods: Lattice Boltzmann Method, Molecular Dynamics, Finite Difference Method, Finite Volume Method, Finite Element method, Immersed Boundary Method | |
| Programming: Fortran, C, C++, Matlab, MPI | |
| Experimental skill: Particle Image Velocimetry | |
| CFD related packages: OpenFOAM, OpenLB, Palabos, Sailfish, ANSYS (including Workbench, Fluent and Gambit), COMSOL, Pointwise (Gridgen), Solidworks, Blender, Meshmixer, MeshLab, 3D Slicer, Plastimatch, Maple, Matlab, Paraview, Tecplot, Origin, Qtiplot |
| Other experiences and professional memberships | |
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2013 -
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Initial DFG-funding of PhD project within a CRC |
| 2007 - 2008 | Fellowship, Excellence Graduate School "material science in Mainz MAINZ" |
| 2006 - 2007 | Scholarship, Excellence Graduate School "polymers in advanced technologies POLYMAT" |