Christoph F. Schmidt, Hertha Sponer Distinguished Professor and Co-Director of the Duke Materials Initiative  

Christoph F. Schmidt

Office Location: 2316 French Family Science Center, Duke Box 90305, 124 Science Drive, Durham, NC
Email Address: christoph.schmidt@duke.edu

Education:
D.R., Technical University of Munich (Germany), 1988

Teaching (Spring 2025):

  • Physics 415.01, Biophysics ii Synopsis
    Physics 047, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Albarran, O; Garces, R; Po, G; Schmidt, CF; Eldredge, JD, Nonlinear continuum description of the E. coli cell wall under high turgor pressure, in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (January, Preprint, 2025) [doi] .
  2. Tah, I; Haertter, D; Crawford, JM; Kiehart, DP; Schmidt, CF; Liu, AJ, A minimal vertex model explains how the amnioserosa avoids fluidization during Drosophila dorsal closure., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 122 no. 1 (January, 2025), pp. e2322732121 [doi]  [abs].
  3. Tah, I; Haertter, D; Crawford, JM; Kiehart, DP; Schmidt, CF; Liu, AJ, Minimal vertex model explains how the amnioserosa avoids fluidization during Drosophila dorsal closure., bioRxiv (October, 2024) [doi]  [abs].
  4. Haertter, D; Hauke, L; Driehorst, T; Nishi, K; Zimmermann, W-H; Schmidt, CF, Stochastic tug-of-war among sarcomeres mediates cardiomyocyte response to environmental stiffness, in eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd (August, Preprint, 2024) [doi] .
  5. Tah, I; Haertter, D; Crawford, JM; Kiehart, DP; Schmidt, CF; Liu, AJ, Minimal vertex model explains how the amnioserosa avoids fluidization during Drosophila dorsal closure., ArXiv (December, 2023)  [abs].