International Exchange
The members of the Research Training Group will also benefit from the newly established cooperation of the Center for NanoScience with the “Physics of the Living Systems Student Research Network” (http://pols.ucsd.edu). This network is funded as a pilot project of “Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI)”, an initiative that was launched by the NSF in October 2011 as an innovative concept to foster interaction among scientists, engineers and educators around the globe. The Research Training Group will be an ideal first platform for this exchange program. This will offer the doctoral students the unique chance for international lab visits and joint activities with some of the leading universities in nanoscience/biophysics worldwide. In the medium term, it is planned to further institutionalize and expand this cooperation by establishing an International Research Training Group with partner(s) from the “Physics of the Living Systems” Network