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