Schmidt

Christoph F. Schmidt

Hertha Sponer Distinguished Professor of Physics

Education

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

Positions

  • Hertha Sponer Distinguished Professor of Physics
  • Professor of Physics
  • Co-Director of the Duke Materials Initiative
  • Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
  • Professor of Biology
  • Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Courses Taught

  • PHYSICS 995: Graduate Training Internship
  • PHYSICS 493: Research Independent Study
  • PHYSICS 415: Biophysics II
  • PHYSICS 174: Introduction to Frontiers of Biophysics
  • BIOLOGY 425: Biophysics II

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Schmidt, Christoph. “Tension doesn’t always propagate in a biological cell membrane.” Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics, March 31, 2025. https://doi.org/10.36471/jccm_march_2025_02.
  • Albarran, Octavio, Renata Garces, Giacomo Po, Christoph F. Schmidt, and Jeff D. Eldredge. “Nonlinear continuum description of the E. coli cell wall under high turgor pressure.” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, January 22, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.20.633943.
  • Tah, Indrajit, Daniel Haertter, Janice M. Crawford, Daniel P. Kiehart, Christoph F. Schmidt, and Andrea J. Liu. “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 122, no. 1 (January 2025): e2322732121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2322732121.
  • Tah, Indrajit, Daniel Haertter, Janice M. Crawford, Daniel P. Kiehart, Christoph F. Schmidt, and Andrea J. Liu. “Minimal vertex model explains how the amnioserosa avoids fluidization during Drosophila dorsal closure.” BioRxiv, October 17, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.20.572544.
  • Haertter, Daniel, Lara Hauke, Til Driehorst, Kengo Nishi, Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann, and Christoph F. Schmidt. “Stochastic tug-of-war among sarcomeres mediates cardiomyocyte response to environmental stiffness.” ELife Sciences Publications, Ltd, August 19, 2024. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.97321.