Interdisciplinary research requires the combination of multiple scientific methods and techniques. Thus, my repertoire of tools and study approaches includes various competences.

Conventional microscopy

 

Scanning electron microscopy ,

conventional, cryo, EDX, ESEM, TEM, (FIB, HIM)

Contact angle measurements and evaluation of free surface energy

 

Indentation (micro, macro)

 

Pull-off and adhesion experiments

 

Video-tracking approaches for behavioural studies and documentation of force tests 

Ontogenetic and ecological studies for contextualization with biophysical results

Comprehensive, systematic, structural screenings

Confocal microscopy

 

Scientific video-recordings, inclusive high-speed analyses

 

Replication of biological and synthetical surfaces; experimental scale

Centrifugal force experiments

 

Sensitive balance (long-term) measurements

Wind tunnel experiments with biological samples

 

Taxonomic identification of species and lineages

Fluorescence Microscopy, e.g., LSM

Surface topography,

e.g., white light interferometry

 

Surface modification, e.g., silanization; experimental scale

 

Traction (pulling) force experiments

Morphometrics of plant and arthropod organs

Cultivation of plants and animals providing comparable model organisms with similar physiological condition

Integrative combination of various methods in order to elucidate multifunctional effects