Dr. Stefania Ketzetzi

Stefania is a postdoc studying disassembly of protein complexes and lysis of microbes. Her goal is to understand how tiny living systems destabilize and break apart, thereby laying the groundwork for a theory of biological disassembly. Her background is in soft-matter physics. She has a MSc degree from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD from the Leiden Institute of Physics in the Netherlands. Previously, she did postdoctoral research at the ETH Zurich Department of Materials in Switzerland, where she investigated how active colloidal particles self-organize and interact with complex and crowded environments and developed colloidal molecules that self-steer their motion through spontaneous shape reconfiguration.