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Sophia Hampe

Research Interests

• Antigen discrimination at the immune synapse
• Stochastic models of receptor–ligand binding under force
• Information processing in biological systems

Publications

• Simulating interactions between cytoskeletal filaments Pajanonot, K.A.T., Hampe, S., Bhattacharyya, K. et al.; Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 235, 3119–3124 (2026).

Short Vita

since February 2026

PhD student in the Max Planck School Matter to Life, jointly supervised by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz at Heidelberg University, Institute for Theoretical Physics, and Dr. Isabella Graf at EMBL Heidelberg; also affiliated with the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence SynthImmune.

September 2023 - October 2025

Master of Science Matter to Life at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Thesis: "Evolutionary Optimization of Composition in Multicomponent Liquids", under supervision of Dr. David Zwicker

October 2020 - May 2023

Master of Science in Molecular Medicine at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

Thesis: "Setting the framework to analyze KMT9α-directed maintenance and differentiation of intestinal stem cells", under supervision of Prof. Schüle

October 2017 - September 2020

Bachelor of Science in Molecular Medicine at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Thesis: "Die Interaktion des viralen p8 Proteins mit Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) in Abhängigkeit von vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP)", under supervision of Prof. Thoma-Kreß

Conferences and Summer Schools

• 29.09. - 01.10.2026, Life-inspired Engineering Molecular Systems Conference ,Heidelberg, Germany
• 28.09.2026, Matter to Life Fall Days , Heilbronn, Germany
• 20.09. - 25.09.2026, Marsilius Academy: Feel the Heat: Science and Histories of Fever, Heidelberg, Germany
• 06.09. - 10.09.2026, 3rd Biology for Physics: Energy and information in Living Matter, Barcelona, Spain
• 18.05. - 22.05.2026, Information & Decisions Across Scales: Constraints and Optimality in Neural and Biological Networks, Dresden, Germany
• 08.03. - 13.03. 2026, DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM), Dresden, Germany

Teaching activities

• Winter term 2026/2027: Tutor for Physics of Complex Systems, Faculty of Physics, Göttingen University
• Summer term 2026: Tutor for Theoretical Biophysics, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University

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