Prof. Stanislav N. Gorb

Executive Board

Zoological Institute: Functional Morphology and Biomechanics
Kiel University
Kiel
Germany

Scientific career

Since 2008	Chair of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Kiel University, Germany
2002 - 2008	Group leader (Evolutionary Biomaterials Group) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Germany
2002	Habilitation in biology–entomology
1999 - 2002	Group leader (Biological Microtribology Group) at the Max-Planck-Institute of Developmental Biology, Germany
1998 - 1999	Assistant at the Institute of Special Zoology and Evolutionary Biology of Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
1996 - 1998	Postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute of Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
1994 - 1995	Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Zoology, University of Vienna, Austria
1990 - 1994	Researcher at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine
1991	Ph.D. degree in biology–entomology from the Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine
1989	M.Sc. degree in biology–zoology from Kiev State University

Research areas

Functional surfaces in biology; biomechanics; biotribology; biomimetics

Thematic Series

Prof. Gorb edited the thematic issues in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology:

Other Beilstein-Institut Open Science Activities

aromatic	the word “aromatic”
aromatic aldehyde	the word “aromatic” OR “aldehyde”
+aromatic +aldehyde	both words “aromatic” AND “aldehyde”
+aromatic -aldehyde	the word “aromatic” but NOT “aldehyde”
“aromatic aldehyde”	the exact phrase “aromatic aldehyde”
benz*	words which begin with “benz”, such as “benzene” or “benzyl”
benz*yl	words that begin with “benz” and end with “yl”, such as “benzyl” or “benzoyl”
benzyl~	words that are close to the word “benzyl”, such as “benzoyl” (i.e., fuzzy search)