Zoological Institute: Functional Morphology and Biomechanics
Kiel University
Kiel
Germany
Scientific career
Since 2008 | Chair of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Kiel University, Germany |
2002 - 2008 | Group leader (Evolutionary Biomaterials Group) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Germany |
2002 | Habilitation in biology–entomology |
1999 - 2002 | Group leader (Biological Microtribology Group) at the Max-Planck-Institute of Developmental Biology, Germany |
1998 - 1999 | Assistant at the Institute of Special Zoology and Evolutionary Biology of Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany |
1996 - 1998 | Postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute of Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany |
1994 - 1995 | Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Zoology, University of Vienna, Austria |
1990 - 1994 | Researcher at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine |
1991 | Ph.D. degree in biology–entomology from the Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine |
1989 | M.Sc. degree in biology–zoology from Kiev State University |
Research areas
Functional surfaces in biology; biomechanics; biotribology; biomimetics
Thematic Series
Prof. Gorb edited the thematic issues in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology:
Biological and biomimetic materials and surfaces (together with Prof. Thomas Speck)
Biological and bioinspired adhesion and friction (together with Prof. Kerstin Koch)
Biomimetics on the micro- and nanoscale – The 25th anniversary of the lotus effect
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