Course content and focus areas
The course objective of the master’s program is to deepen and specialize in the field of biophysics. The curriculum is no longer strictly confined to traditional subject boundaries and institutes but is thematically oriented and offered in a cross-disciplinary format across five focus areas:
- Spectroscopy, imaging and structural analysis
- Membranes, electrophysiology, bioenergetics and cell biophysics
- Theory, simulations and molecular dynamics
- Bio-analytical methods
- Nucleic acids
These focus areas reflect the research priorities of the university instructors on campus who represent biophysical disciplines and showcase attractive, forward-looking research fields. The necessary breadth of education is ensured by requiring students to select elective modules from all focus areas.
The depth of education is achieved through a research and laboratory internship, a research group seminar, and a module on “Subject Specialization,” which prepare students for their master’s thesis. In the thesis, students conduct independent work on a current scientific issue.