Dr Marcus Hennig

Post doctoral researcher
Ph: +61 2 9717 3633
M: +61 (0)443 447 704
E: marcus.hennig@ansto.gov.au

Marcus studied physics at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and graduated with a Diploma in July 2007.

After studying Chinese for one year in Shanghai, he joined the Institut Laue-Langevin and the University of Tübingen as a Ph.D. student in a collaborative project on the dynamics of globular proteins in crowded electrolyte solutions.

During his Ph.D., Marcus conducted numerous neutron and X-ray scattering experiments at major international facilities worldwide. Finally in September 2011, Marcus took a position as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Bragg Institute to develop analysis software for quasi-elastic and inelastic neutron scattering data.

Furthermore, he investigates to what extent established colloid models can be applied to understand the translational and rotational diffusion of proteins under crowded conditions.

For this scientific endeavour, he employs dynamics light scattering, cold neutron backscattering and neutron spin echo spectroscopy to probe the dynamics of proteins. For complementary structural determination, he utilizes small-angle-scattering to investigate the protein shape in solution. His areas of expertise include neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering, soft matter physics and molecular dynamics simulations.

Qualifications and achievements:

Diploma in Physics, University of Jena / Max Planck Institut for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany, 2007

Ph.D. in Physics (with distinction), University of Tübingen, Germany / Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France, 2011
Key Publications

M. Heinen, F. Zanini, F. Roosen-Runge, D. Fedunová, F. Zhang, M. Hennig, T. Seydel, R. Schweins, M. Sztucki, M. Antalík, F. Schreiber, G. Nägele, Viscosity and Diffusion: Crowding and Salt Effects in Protein Solutions, submitted to Soft Matter (2011)

F. Roosen-Runge, M. Hennig, F. Zhang, R.M.J. Jacobs, M. Sztucki, H. Schober, T. Seydel, and F. Schreiber, Protein Self-Diffusion in Crowded Solutions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 108, 29:11815-11820 (2011)

M. Hennig, B. Frick, and T. Seydel, Optimum Velocity of a Phase Space Transformer for Cold Neutron Backscattering Spectroscopy, Journal of Applied Crystallography, 44, 467-472 (2011)

F. Roosen-Runge, M. Hennig, T. Seydel, F. Zhang, M.W.A. Skoda, S. Zorn, R.M.J. Jacobs, M. Maccarini, P. Fouquet, and F. Schreiber, Protein Diffusion in Crowded Electrolyte Solutions, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1804, 68-75 (2010)