Professorships

• Biomedical microdevices
• Cryogenic microsystems
• Light and electron cryo-microscopy
• Microfluidics and nanofluidics
• Micro-/nanomechanical sensors

Since 2018 Professor (W3), Technical University of Darmstadt

2009 – 2018 Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2), MPI for Biophysical Chemistry

2009 Physiology Course, Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA)

2005-2008 Postdoc, M.I.T.

2005 PhD, Electrical Engineering, M.I.T.

2001 Diploma, Physics, ETH Zurich

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Microsystems for Cryomicroscopy

• R. Faoro, M. Bassu, Y.X. Mejia, T. Stephan, N. Dudani, C. Boeker, S. Jakobs, T.P. Burg, Aberration-corrected cryoimmersion light microscopy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2018) Full text
• M. Fuest, G.M. Nocera, M.M. Modena, D. Riedel, Y.X. Mejia, T.P. Burg, Cryofixation during live-imaging enables millisecond time-correlated light and electron microscopy, Journal of Microscopy (2018) Full text
• Y.X. Mejia, H. Feindt, D. Zhang, S. Steltenkamp, T.P. Burg, Microfluidic cryofixation for correlative microscopy, Lab on a Chip (2014) Full text

Nanofluidic systems

• F. Purr, M. Bassu, R.D. Lowe, B. Thürmann, A.D. Dietzel, T.P. Burg, Asymmetric nanofluidic grating detector for differential refractive index measurement and biosensing, Lab on a Chip (2017) Full text
• M. Bassu, P. Holik, S. Schmitz, S. Steltenkamp, T.P. Burg, Continuous high throughput nanofluidic separation through tangential-flow vertical nanoslit arrays, Lab on a Chip (2016) Full text

Micro-/Nanomechanical sensing

• M.M. Modena, P. Hirschle, S. Wuttke, T.P. Burg, Mass Measurements Reveal Preferential Sorption of Mixed Solvent Components in Porous Nanoparticles, Small (2018) Full text
• Y. Wang, M.M. Modena, M. Platen, I.A.T. Schaap, T.P. Burg, Label-free measurement of amyloid elongation by suspended microchannel resonators, Analytical Chemistry (2015) Full text
• T.P. Burg, M. Godin, W. Shen, G. Carlson, J.S. Foster, K. Babcock, and S.R. Manalis, Weighing of Biomolecules, Single Cells, and Single Nanoparticles in Fluid, Nature (2007) Full text