Don Lamb's Biography

Don Lamb, Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-University

1983 – 1986 B. A. in Physics and Mathematics, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
1987 – 1989 M.S. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
1989 – 1993 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (Prof Frauenfelder) Thesis: ‘An investigation of processes that occur during the rebinding of carbon monoxide to myoglobin’
1993 – 1995 Research Instructor, Department of Otolaryngology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN Research Fellow, Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Research Fellow, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Research in Medical Physics: ‘Laser interactions with tissue’
1995 – 1997 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Department of Physics (Prof. Parak), Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany Research: ‘Photoinduced relaxations in myoglobin’
1997 - present Visiting Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics (Prof. Gratton), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research: ‘Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy’
2000 – 2003 Visiting Scientist, Department of Biophysics (Prof. Nienhaus), University of Ulm, Germany Research: ‘Single-molecule biophysics’
2003 – 2007 Group leader in the laboratory of Prof. Christoph Bräuchle, Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
since 12/2007 W2 Professor for Biophysical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany