Dr. Johannes Preiner, PhD

Research Group Leader at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

Speaker

Johannes Preiner is a research group leader at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and a lecturer at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) of Linz (Austria). He obtained his PhD at the Institute of Biophysics at JKU working in the group of Prof. Peter Hinterdorfer on various atomic force microscopy (AFM) based methods and their applications in biology. After completing his PhD, he became one of the first European experts in high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM), which makes it possible to follow molecular processes under physiological conditions in real-time and with sub-molecular resolution. In his current research, he applies HS-AFM together with other biophysical methods to explore the multivalent molecular interactions that trigger antibody effector functions.