Jakob PohlJakob Pohl studied biophysics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and received his Master's degree in 2013. During a three-year stipendium from Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, he developed protocols for a reproducible cultivation of phototrohic biofilms under conditions of photodynamic inactivation. Those are, among others, the major topics of his Ph.D. thesis which he completed in 2019. Since his Bachelor's thesis in 2009, he has been working in the field of photodynamic therapy and photodynamic inactivation, studying the effects of photosensitization on human cancer cells and microorganisms. Since 2016 he has worked as a research associate at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the group of photobiophysics to develop protocols for qualitative analysis of PDI, photophysical characterization of antimicrobial surfaces, and the inactivation of algal biofilms. Read More Read Less