Sapun H Parekh
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Biography
Sapun H Parekh has joined the MPIP in February 2012. Before coming to the MPIP, he has worked as a Science Policy Fellow in the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC and as a Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health. Prior to this, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Biomaterials Group at the National Institute for Standards and Technology where he has worked on mechanobiology of stem cell differentiation and development of label-free imaging techniques. He has received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002 and his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco in 2008. His PhD thesis focused on force generation and mechanics of semi-flexible actin networks that are ubiquitous in biology. During his PhD, he has developed and applied a new atomic force microscopy system with improved long-term stability to measure these biophysical systems. At the MPIP his group focuses on molecular imaging and his research interests include applications of non-linear microscopy in biology and molecular biophysics.
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