Dr. Elisa Bombarda

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Sciences
Habilitandin Chair of Experimental Physics IV

01/2011 – present: Group Leader (DFG Program "Eigene Stelle",
University of Bayreuth

11/2009 – 12/2010: Scientist (Chair Biopolymers, AG Structural Biology/ Bioinformatics, University of Bayreuth

09/2000 – present: Maître de Conférences (Tenured Assistant Professorship) in Biophysics, University of Strasbourg, Frankreich; Position currently suspended

12/1996 – 01/2000: PhD Biophysics, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (France) and Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysics, Frankfurt a/M (Germany), summa cum laude

1996: Laurea (Master) Physics (Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy)

1988 – 1996: Laurea (Master) study in Physics, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy and Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy

2011 – 2014: DFG grant BO 3587/1-1 -- Assessment: my position, a PhD student position, 68 000 Euro consumables and a stopped-flow apparatus (value > 100 000 Euro)

2006 – 2009: Postdoctoral Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship from EU Commission

2001 – 2005: Annually reconfirmed contract of consulting, with confidentiality agreement, about the applications of fluorescence spectroscopy in the investigation of biological systems. Aventis Pharma, Paris

The behavior of bio-macromolecules in particular proteins is in the center of our research interests. Specifically, we are interested in:

Molecular interactions:
Thermodynamics and the kinetics of the interactions of proteins with their ligands, effects of the environmental conditions: pH, temperature, ionic strength.
Enzymatic catalysis
A detailed description of the molecular mechanism of enzymes to understand and predict its biological implications
Protonation and redox-reactions:
Analysis of these reactions which are at the basis of many bio-molecular processes with experimental and computational methods.
Conformations of bio-molecules:
Dynamics of macromolecules, conformational changes, folding, structure-function relationship

Dr. Elisa Bombarda
Department of Physics

Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30
95447 Bayreuth