The Cluster of Excellence PoL aims to discover new paradigms for understanding life and deepen our knowledge of living biological matter.

Although the understanding of the biochemical basis of life is now well advanced, the understanding of living matter and its dynamic self-organization is far behind that of non-living matter. Therefore, PoL is concerned with the elucidation of those principles which form the basis of the dynamic organization of living matter. This serves the purpose of gaining insights into the “laws of physics” that underlie the dynamic spatio-temporal organization of life into molecules, cells and tissues. Fundamental physics is used to understand and solve biological questions. Therefore, innovative experimental approaches, theoretical predictions and computer simulations will be used.

The Cluster of Excellence, funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), brings together a multidisciplinary team of scientists from physics, biology and computer science. The research is carried out by the TU Dresden and DRESDEN-concept. Raimund Dachselt is one of the principal investigators of this cluster. Within the Research Avenue 5 “Scientific Computing and Systems Microscopy”, our Interactive Media Lab conducts research in the area of the immersive interactive exploration of multiscale biological data.

Further information about the project can be found on the official PoL website.

Related Publications

  • Augmented Displays: Seamlessly Extending Interactive Surfaces with Head-Mounted Augmented Reality.

    Reipschläger, P.; Engert, S.; Dachselt, R.;

    In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems.CHI '20, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.ACM,2020.10.1145/3334480.3383138

    @inproceedings{Reipschlaeger2020,
       author = {Patrick Reipschl\"{a}ger and Severin Engert and Raimund Dachselt},
       title = {Augmented Displays: Seamlessly Extending Interactive Surfaces with Head-Mounted Augmented Reality},
       booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
       year = {2020},
       month = {4},
       isbn = {978-1-4503-6819-3/20/04},
       location = {Honolulu, Hawaii, USA},
       numpages = {4},
       doi = {10.1145/3334480.3383138},
       publisher = {ACM},
       address = {New York},
       keywords = {Augmented Reality, Interactive Surfaces, Augmented Displays, Touch+Pen Interaction, Design, 3D Modeling, Architecture, DesignAR}
    }

  • Challenges in Collaborative Immersive Visualization.

    Büschel, W.; Eckert, G.; Dachselt, R.;

    In CHI 2020 Workshop on Immersive Analytics: Envisioning Future Productivity for Immersive Analytics.CHI '20, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.1-6,2020.

    @inproceedings{,
       author = {Wolfgang B\"{u}schel and Georg Eckert and Raimund Dachselt},
       title = {Challenges in Collaborative Immersive Visualization},
       booktitle = {CHI 2020 Workshop on Immersive Analytics: Envisioning Future Productivity for Immersive Analytics},
       series = {CHI '20},
       year = {2020},
       month = {4},
       location = {Honolulu, Hawaii, USA},
       pages = {1--6},
       numpages = {6}
    }

  • A Proposed Framework for Interactive Virtual Reality In Situ Visualization of Parallel Numerical Simulations.

    Gupta, A.; Günther, U.; Incardona, P.; Aydin, A.; Dachselt, R.; Gumhold, S.; Sbalzarini, I.;

    To appear in Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization.LDAV '19, Vancouver, BC, Canada.2019.

    @inproceedings{,
       author = {Aryaman Gupta and Ulrik G\"{u}nther and Pietro Incardona and Ata Deniz Aydin and Raimund Dachselt and Stefan Gumhold and Ivo F. Sbalzarini},
       title = {A Proposed Framework for Interactive Virtual Reality In Situ Visualization of Parallel Numerical Simulations},
       booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization},
       year = {2019},
       month = {10},
       location = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
       numpages = {2},
       url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02986}
    }