Dr. Paul Bieber  🇦🇹

Paul was born in Vienna, Austria and grew up in the rural area around the city. After he finished High School with a focus on mechatronics, he studied Technical Chemistry at TU Wien. During his master thesis project, he built a drone-based sampling setup to measure bioaerosols emitted from the terrestrial biosphere. For his PhD, Paul joined the NBD group where he investigated the freezing process induced by biopolymers with high-speed cameras. He found that the interfaces of droplets, such as the air-water interface, can be important for the formation of the early-stage ice crystals. Paul now continues his research as a Post-Doc to investigate the ice nucleating ability of genetically modified proteins and their potential applications in biomedical devices. When Paul is not in the lab, he likes to go skiing in the backcountry of British Columbia or surfing on the West coast of Vancouver Island.