Ingmar Riedel-Kruse (né Riedel), Ph.D.

Ingmar Riedel-Kruse

Postdoc with Gilles Laurent at Caltech

nce upon a time - and full of hope to unravel the ultimate mysteries of the universe - I decided to study theoretical physics. Unfortunately, I soon realized that all the easy stuff had already been done (Thanks, Mr. Landau!), and only Lattice-QCD beyond the 21st order correction was left to me, which - er - is pretty complicated, actually…

Semi-disillusioned I went to business consulting, where math was simple (and money was plenty).

A (not so) simple twist of fate brought me back to physics, now with the upgrade “bio-“ upfront. I mastered a PhD on sperm motility (yes, that initiates good party conversations) by synergizing my experimental left hand with my theoretical right brain. Building on this success, I now explore the wonderland of biology happily ever after…

Selected publications

Riedel-Kruse, I.H., Müller, C., and Oates, A.C., Synchrony dynamics during initiation, failure and rescue of the segmentation clock, Science (2007) 317: 1911.

Riedel, I.H., Kruse, K., and Howard, J., A self-organized vortex array of hydrodynamically entrained sperm cells, Science (2005) 309: 300.