Education
Simmel received a Doctor of Philosophy in experimental physics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1999.
Simmel received a Doctor of Philosophy in experimental physics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1999.
He is a researcher in the field of deoxyribonucleic acid nanotechnology and is best known for his work on deoxyribonucleic acid nanomachines and dynamic deoxyribonucleic acid-based systems From 2000 to 2002 he was a PostDoctoral researcher at Bell laboratories He joined the faculty of the Technical University Munich as a full Professor in 2007.
2006 Human frontier science program (HFSP) young investigator award
2009 Vice President (2009) of the International Society of Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering (ISNSCE)
2010 President (2009) of the International Society of Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering (ISNSCE).
2013 Elected Member of the National Academy of Science and Technology (acatech).