Dr. Roland Knorr is a group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG), Potsdam/Germany. He received his master degree from the Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena/Germany in 2004, and his PhD at the MPIKG with the title “Giant vesicles - influence of phase state, composition and electric pulses” under the supervision of Prof. Reinhard Lipowsky. After the PhD he established the first model describing the morphological transitions of biomembranes during autophagy by a combination of theoretical approaches with experiments on biointerfaces (reconstitution of the ubiquitin-like conjugation system Atg8 with Prof. Tobias Baumgart at UPenn and Prof. Yoshinori Ohsumi at Tokyo Institute of Technology). In 2014 he joined the network “MaxSynBio” where he constructs and characterizes interfaces between phase separating biomembranes and biomimetic as well as synthetic three-dimensional bulk systems, both theoretically and experimentally.