Author information Lukas Tamm studied Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and at Cornell University. After obtaining his PhD in Biophysics from the University of Basel in 1982, he moved to Stanford University for postdoctoral work with H. M. McConnell. Returning to Basel, he was appointed as a junior faculty member before joining thefaculty of the University of Virgina in 1990. He currently holds a chair in Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics and served as director of heinterdisciplinary program in biophysics at the University of Virginia from 1999-2003.
