Rumiana Dimova

Rumiana Dimova obtained her PhD at Bordeaux University (France) in 1999. Afterwards she joined the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Germany) as a postdoctoral fellow, where she became a group leader in 2000 leading the Biophysics Lab (www.dimova.de). Her main research interests are in the field of membrane biophysics. She has been tackling a variety of open questions in cell membrane biophysics and synthetic biology while employing giant vesicles as a platform to develop new methods for the biophysical characterization of membranes and processes involving them. In 2014, she was awarded with the Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics of the European Physical Society.