Prof. Dr. Karen Alim

Academic Career and Research Areas

Prof. Alim (*1981) investigates non-neuronal information processing. The aim of her research is to identify the physical principles of how information is propagated, stored and processed in life without neurons.

Prof. Alim studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe, at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and at the University of Manchester. For her doctorate she performed research at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California in Santa Barbara and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where she received her doctorate in 2010. From 2010-2015 she worked at Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer before joining the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen in 2015 as a Max Planck Research Group Leader. In 2019 Prof. Alim was appointed to the Physics Department of the TUM.

Awards

• ERC Starting Grant (2020)
• Fellow Elisabeth Schiemann Kolleg (2013-2018)
• Fellowship Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher (2011-2014)
• John Birks Award, University of Manchester (2004)