Peer Fischer is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and he heads the independent Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart.
He received a BSc. degree in Physics from Imperial College London and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He was a NATO (DAAD) Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University, before joining the Rowland Institute at Harvard. At Harvard he held a Rowland Fellowship and directed an interdisciplinary research lab for five years. In 2009 he received an Attract Award from the Fraunhofer Society which led him to set up a photonics lab at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques in Freiburg. In 2011 he moved his lab to the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, and since 2013 he is a Professor at the University of Stuttgart.
Peer Fischer won an ERC Grant as a consolidator in 2011 and in 2016 he won a World Technology Award. He received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2018. He is a member of the Max Planck – EPFL Center for Molecular Nanoscience and Technology, and the research network on Learning Systems with ETH Zürich. Peer Fischer is a Founding Editorial Board Member of the journal AAAS Science Robotics and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Fischer has broad research interests including 3d nanofabrication & assembly, micro- and nano-robotics, active matter, interaction of optical, electric, magnetic, and acoustic fields with matter at small length scales, chirality, and molecular systems engineering.
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Choudhury, U., Singh, D. P., Qiu, T., Fischer, P.
Chemical Nanomotors at the Gram Scale Form a Dense Active Optorheological Medium
Adv. Mat., (1807382), Febuary 2019 (article)
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Collins, J., Rusimova, K., Hooper, D., Jeong, H. H., Ohnoutek, L., Pradaux-Caggiano, F., Verbiest, T., Carbery, D., Fischer, P., Valev, V.
First Observation of Optical Activity in Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering
Phys. Rev. X, 9(011024), January 2019 (article)
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Sachs, J., Morozov, K. I., Kenneth, O., Qiu, T., Segreto, N., Fischer, P., Leshansky, A. M.
Role of symmetry in driven propulsion at low Reynolds number
Phys. Rev. E, 98(6):063105, American Physical Society, December 2018 (article)
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Maier, C. M., Huergo, M. A., Milosevic, S., Pernpeintner, C., Li, M., Singh, D. P., Walker, D., Fischer, P., Feldmann, J., Lohmüller, T.
Optical and Thermophoretic Control of Janus Nanopen Injection into Living Cells
Nano Letters, 18, pages: 7935–7941, November 2018 (article) Accepted
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Wu, Z., Troll, J., Jeong, H. H., Wei, Q., Stang, M., Ziemssen, F., Wang, Z., Dong, M., Schnichels, S., Qiu, T., Fischer, P.
A swarm of slippery micropropellers penetrates the vitreous body of the eye
Science Advances, 4(11):eaat4388, November 2018 (article)
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Rohr, A. V., Trimpe, S., Marco, A., Fischer, P., Palagi, S.
Gait learning for soft microrobots controlled by light fields
In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018, pages: 6199-6206, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2018, October 2018 (inproceedings)
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Palagi, S., Walker, D. Q. T., Fischer, P.
Nanoscale robotic agents in biological fluids and tissues
In The Encyclopedia of Medical Robotics, 2, pages: 19-42, 2, (Editors: Desai, J. P. and Ferreira, A.), World Scientific, October 2018 (inbook)
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Melde, K., Qiu, T., Fischer, P.
Fast spatial scanning of 3D ultrasound fields via thermography
Applied Physics Letters, 113(13):133503, September 2018 (article)
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Günther, J., Börsch, M., Fischer, P.
Diffusion Measurements of Swimming Enzymes with Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
Accounts of Chemical Research, 51(9):1911-1920, August 2018 (article)
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Suraniti, E., Merzeau, P., Roche, J., Gounel, S., Mark, A. G., Fischer, P., Mano, N., Kuhn, A.
Uphill production of dihydrogen by enzymatic oxidation of glucose without an external energy source
Nature Communications, 9(1):3229, August 2018 (article)
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Yu, T., Chuphal, P., Thakur, S., Reigh, S. Y., Singh, D. P., Fischer, P.
Chemical micromotors self-assemble and self-propel by spontaneous symmetry breaking
Chem. Comm., 54, pages: 11933-11936, August 2018 (article)
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Fischer, P.
A machine from machines
Nature Physics, 14, pages: 1072–1073, July 2018 (misc)
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Popescu, M. N., Uspal, W. E., Bechinger, C., Fischer, P.
Chemotaxis of Active Janus Nanoparticles
Nano Letters, 18(9):5345–5349, July 2018 (article)
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Palagi, S., Fischer, P.
Bioinspired microrobots
Nature Reviews Materials, 3, pages: 113–124, May 2018 (article)
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Paria, D., Jeong, H. H., Vadakkumbatt, V., Deshpande, P., Fischer, P., Ghosh, A., Ghosh, A.
Graphene-silver hybrid devices for sensitive photodetection in the ultraviolet
Nanoscale, 10, pages: 7685-7693, April 2018 (article)
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Fischer, P.
Nanoparticles on the move for medicine
Physics World Focus on Nanotechnology, pages: 26028, (Editors: Margaret Harris), IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors, April 2018 (article)
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Singh, D. P., Uspal, W. E., Popescu, M. N., Wilson, L. G., Fischer, P.
Photogravitactic Microswimmers
Adv. Func. Mat., 28, pages: 1706660, Febuary 2018 (article)
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Matuschek, M., Singh, D. P., Hyeon-Ho, J., Nesterov, M., Weiss, T., Fischer, P., Neubrech, F., Na Liu, L.
Chiral Plasmonic Hydrogen Sensors
Small, 14(7):1702990, Febuary 2018 (article)
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Melde, K., Choi, E., Wu, Z., Palagi, S., Qiu, T., Fischer, P.
Acoustic Fabrication via the Assembly and Fusion of Particles
Advanced Materials, 30(3):1704507, January 2018 (article)
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Choudhury, U., Straube, A., Fischer, P., Gibbs, J., Höfling, F.
Active colloidal propulsion over a crystalline surface
New Journal of Physics, 19, pages: 125010, December 2017 (article)
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Qiu, T., Adams, F., Palagi, S., Melde, K., Mark, A. G., Wetterauer, U., Miernik, A., Fischer, P.
Wireless Acoustic-Surface Actuators for Miniaturized Endoscopes
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(49):42536 - 42543, November 2017 (article)
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Qiu, T., Palagi, S., Mark, A. G., Melde, K., Adams, F., Fischer, P.
Active Acoustic Surfaces Enable the Propulsion of a Wireless Robot
Advanced Materials Interfaces, 4(21):1700933, September 2017 (article)
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Jeong, H. H., Alarcon-Correa, M., Mark, A. G., Son, K., Lee, T., Fischer, P.
Corrosion-Protected Hybrid Nanoparticles
Advanced Science, 4(12):1700234, September 2017 (article)
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Palagi, S., Mark, A. G., Melde, K., Qiu, T., Zeng, H., Parmeggiani, C., Martella, D., Wiersma, D. S., Fischer, P.
Locomotion of light-driven soft microrobots through a hydrogel via local melting
In 2017 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), pages: 1-5, July 2017 (inproceedings)
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Singh, D. P., Choudhury, U., Fischer, P., Mark, A. G.
Non-Equilibrium Assembly of Light-Activated Colloidal Mixtures
Advanced Materials, 29, pages: 1701328, June 2017, 32 (article)
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Kim, J. T., Choudhury, U., Hyeon-Ho, J., Fischer, P.
Nanodiamonds That Swim
Advanced Materials, 29(30):1701024, June 2017, Back Cover (article)
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Adams, F., Qiu, T., Mark, A., Fritz, B., Kramer, L., Schlager, D., Wetterauer, U., Miernik, A., Fischer, P.
Soft 3D-Printed Phantom of the Human Kidney with Collecting System
Ann. of Biomed. Eng., 45(4):963-972, April 2017 (article)
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Palagi, S., (Walker) Schamel, D., Qiu, T., Fischer, P.
Chapter 8 - Micro- and nanorobots in Newtonian and biological viscoelastic fluids
In Microbiorobotics, pages: 133 - 162, 8, Micro and Nano Technologies, Second edition, Elsevier, Boston, March 2017 (incollection)
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Adams, F., Qiu, T., Mark, A. G., Melde, K., Palagi, S., Miernik, A., Fischer, P.
Wireless micro-robots for endoscopic applications in urology
In Eur Urol Suppl, 16(3):e1914, March 2017 (inproceedings)
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Vach, P. J., (Walker) Schamel, D., Fischer, P., Fratzl, P., Faivre, D.
Pattern formation and collective effects in populations of magnetic microswimmers
J. of Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 50(11):11LT03, Febuary 2017 (article)
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Mark, A. G., Suraniti, E., Roche, J., Richter, H., Kuhn, A., Mano, N., Fischer, P.
On-chip enzymatic microbiofuel cell-powered integrated circuits
Lab on a Chip, 17(10):1761-1768, Febuary 2017, Recent HOT Article (article)
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Hooper, D. C., Mark, A. G., Kuppe, C., Collins, J. T., Fischer, P., Valev, V. K.
Strong Rotational Anisotropies Affect Nonlinear Chiral Metamaterials
Advanced Materials, 29(13):1605110, January 2017 (article)
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Jeong, H., Alarcón-Correa, M., Mark, A. G., Son, K., Lee, T., Fischer, P.
Corrosion-protected hybrid nanoparticles
{Advanced Science}, 4(12), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2017 (article)
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Qiu, T., Palagi, S., Mark, A. G., Melde, K., Adams, F., Fischer, P.
Wireless actuation with functional acoustic surfaces
Appl. Phys. Lett., 109(19):191602, November 2016, APL Editor's pick. APL News. (article)
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Alarcon-Correa, M., Walker (Schamel), D., Qiu, T., Fischer, P.
Nanomotors
Eur. Phys. J.-Special Topics, 225(11-12):2241-2254, November 2016 (article)
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Palagi, S., Mark, A. G., Reigh, S. Y., Melde, K., Qiu, T., Zeng, H., Parmeggiani, C., Martella, D., Sanchez-Castillo, A., Kapernaum, N., Giesselmann, F., Wiersma, D. S., Lauga, E., Fischer, P.
Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots
Nature Materials, 15(6):647–653, November 2016, Max Planck press release, Nature News & Views. (article)
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Walker (Schamel), D., Singh, D. P., Fischer, P.
Capture of 2D Microparticle Arrays via a UV-Triggered Thiol-yne “Click” Reaction
Advanced Materials, 28(44):9846-9850, September 2016 (article)
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Jeong, H. H., Mark, A. G., Fischer, P.
Magnesium plasmonics for UV applications and chiral sensing
Chem. Comm., 52(82):12179-12182, September 2016 (article)
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Melde, K., Mark, A. G., Qiu, T., Fischer, P.
Holograms for acoustics
Nature, 537, pages: 518-522, September 2016, Max Planck press release, Nature News & Views, Nature Video. (article)
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Garbacz, P., Fischer, P., Kraemer, S.
A loop-gap resonator for chirality-sensitive nuclear magneto-electric resonance (NMER)
J. Chem. Phys., 145(10):104201, September 2016 (article)
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Palagi, S., Mark, A. G., Melde, K., Zeng, H., Parmeggiani, C., Martella, D., Wiersma, D. S., Fischer, P.
Soft continuous microrobots with multiple intrinsic degrees of freedom
In 2016 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), pages: 1-5, July 2016 (inproceedings)
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Jeong, H. H., Mark, A. G., Lee, T., Alarcon-Correa, M., Eslami, S., Qiu, T., Gibbs, J. G., Fischer, P.
Active Nanorheology with Plasmonics
Nano Letters, 16(8):4887-4894, July 2016 (article)
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Qiu, T., Palagi, S., Mark, A. G., Melde, K., Fischer, P.
Wireless actuator based on ultrasonic bubble streaming
In 2016 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), pages: 1-5, July 2016 (inproceedings)
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Mark, A. G., Palagi, S., Qiu, T., Fischer, P.
Auxetic Metamaterial Simplifies Soft Robot Design
In 2016 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages: 4951-4956, May 2016 (inproceedings)
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cerretti, G., Martella, D., Zeng, H., Parmeggiani, C., Palagi, S., Mark, A. G., Melde, K., Qiu, T., Fischer, P., Wiersma, D.
Towards Photo-Induced Swimming: Actuation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomer in Water
In Proc. of SPIE 9738, pages: Laser 3D Manufacturing III, 97380T, April 2016 (inproceedings)
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Jeong, H. H., Mark, A. G., Alarcon-Correa, M., Kim, I., Oswald, P., Lee, T. C., Fischer, P.
Dispersion and shape engineered plasmonic nanosensors
Nature Communications, 7, pages: 11331, March 2016 (article)
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Maier, A. M., Weig, C., Oswald, P., Frey, E., Fischer, P., Liedl, T.
Magnetic Propulsion of Microswimmers with DNA-Based Flagellar Bundles
Nano Letters, 16(2):906-910, January 2016 (article)
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Jeong, H. H., Lee, T. C., Fischer, P.
Method for encapsulating a nanostructure, coated nanostructure and use of a coated nanostructure
Google Patents, 2016, WO Patent App. PCT/EP2016/056,377 (patent)
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Woo, S., Litzius, K., Krüger, B., Im, M., Caretta, L., Richter, K., Mann, M., Krone, A., Reeve, R. M., Weigand, M., Agrawal, P., Lemesh, I., Mawass, M., Fischer, P., Kläui, M., Beach, G. S. D.
Observation of room-temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-driven dynamics in ultrathin metallic ferromagnets
{Nature Materials}, 15(5):501-506, Nature Pub. Group, London, UK, 2016 (article)
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Walker (Schamel), D., Käsdorf, B. T., Jeong, H. H., Lieleg, O., Fischer, P.
Enzymatically active biomimetic micropropellers for the penetration of mucin gels
Science Advances, 1(11):e1500501, December 2015 (article)