Rate My Professor Wolfram Moebius

Dr. Wolfram Moebius serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Exeter, with an affiliation to the Living Systems Institute. He obtained his PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Munich, Germany. Following his doctoral studies, he held a postdoctoral researcher position at Harvard University in Cambridge, United States, from September 2010 to August 2015. Moebius joined the University of Exeter thereafter, contributing to both the Physics and Astronomy department and interdisciplinary research at the Living Systems Institute.

His academic interests encompass microbiology, evolutionary biology, microbial ecology, biological physics, thermodynamics, and statistical physics. Within the Living Systems Institute's Molecular and Cellular Biophysics area, Moebius leads research on the effects of the physical world on dynamics in biological systems. This includes investigations into how viruses migrate at multiple scales in plant systems, phage host range evolution in spatially structured microbiomes, and mechanisms by which biofilms protect against bacteriophage infections. He serves as principal investigator on sustainability projects and collaborates on advancements in single-cell microbiology and bacteriophage-bacteria interactions. Moebius supervises PhD students, such as those exploring fluid flow in microbial evolution and antimicrobial resistance in polymicrobial biofilms. Notable publications include 'The spatial and metabolic basis of colony size variation' (The ISME Journal, 2018, with J.M. Chacón and W.R. Harcombe), 'How Obstacles Perturb Population Fronts and Alter Their Genetic Structure' (PLOS Computational Biology, 2015, with A.W. Murray and D.R. Nelson), and contributions to quantitative tests of minimal models for traveling waves in microbial populations. His research has received funding from BBSRC and NSF/BIO collaborative grants. Moebius is also a guest editor for a special collection on microbial evolution.