Pandemics and Alertness member WG2 (Fighting the virus), LINXS Fellow

Dept. of Chemistry, Division of Physical Chemistry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Anna Stradner is a soft matter scientist specializing in scattering methods and their application to life science, working mainly with physiologically and pharmaceutically relevant proteins (monoclonal antibodies, eye lens proteins etc.) using a colloid approach to protein interactions and solution properties. The current research of her group focuses on phase behavior, structure, dynamics and flow behavior of concentrated protein solutions and mixtures, with a particular interest in protein dynamics under crowded conditions, phase separation and dynamical arrest, as well as novel concepts for high-concentration protein formulations. She obtained her PhD in Physical Chemistry in Graz, Austria, then moved to Switzerland where she worked as a postdoc and subsequently as a tenured senior scientist at the Physics Department in Fribourg. In 2008, she completed her Habilitation (Venia Legendi) in Experimental Physics before transferring her activities in 2011 to Lund University, where she is now Professor in the Division of Physical Chemistry.