Dr. Thorsten Auth

Thorsten Auth is a theoretical physicist working on biophysics and soft matter. He graduated from Goethe University Frankfurt and then moved to Forschungszentrum Jülich to work on his doctoral thesis project. He studied effective rigidities of polymer-decorated amphiphilic monolayers in oil-water microemulsions as part of a collaboration with colleagues at the Institute for Neutron Scattering in Jülich and the Institute of Physical Chemistry in Cologne. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the University of Cologne. As a postdoc, after a short stay at Forschungszentrum Jülich, he worked on active fluctuations of red blood cells at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. In 2007, Thorsten Auth returned to Forschungszentrum Jülich as a staff scientist at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Living Matter. He focuses on numerical calculations and computer simulations to predict the interaction of membranes with nano- and microstructures and on computer simulations of active matter.

Selected publications

• Vutukuri, H. R., Hoore, M., Abaurrea-Velasco, C., van Buren, L., Dutto, A., Auth, T., ... & Vermant, J. (2020). Active particles induce large shape deformations in giant lipid vesicles. Nature, 586(7827), 52-56.
• Abaurrea-Velasco, C., Auth, T., & Gompper, G. (2019). Vesicles with internal active filaments: self-organized propulsion controls shape, motility, and dynamical response. New journal of physics, 21(12), 123024.
• Abaurrea Velasco, C., Abkenar, M., Gompper, G., & Auth, T. (2018). Collective behavior of self-propelled rods with quorum sensing. Physical Review E, 98(2), 022605.
• Turlier, H., Fedosov, D. A., Audoly, B., Auth, T., Gov, N. S., Sykes, C., ... & Betz, T. (2016). Equilibrium physics breakdown reveals the active nature of red blood cell flickering. Nature physics, 12(5), 513-519.
• Dasgupta, S., Auth, T., and Gompper, G. (2014). Shape and orientation matter for the cellular uptake of nonspherical particles. Nano letters, 14(2), 687-693.