engineering

Peer Fischer

Peer Fischer is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Peer Fischer rather than just read about it. In short: Peer Fischer is a German robotics researcher, specializing in biological nanorobotics. Biography He received a B.Sc. in Physics from Imperial College London.

Key takeaways

Peer Fischer belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Peer Fischer to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Peer Fischer from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Peer Fischer is a German robotics researcher, specializing in biological nanorobotics.

Biography He received a B.Sc. in Physics from Imperial College London. He did his Ph.D. with A. David Buckingham at the University of Cambridge. He was a DAAD (NATO) postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University and then held a Junior Research Fellowship at the Rowland Institute at Harvard where he directed an independent lab for five years.

In 2009, he set up a photonics lab at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques in Freiburg via an Attract Award from the Fraunhofer Society. He moved to the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart in 2011, and since 2013 he is a professor at the University of Stuttgart. Peer Fischer is a member of the Max Planck – EPFL Center for Molecular Nanoscience and Technology, and the research network on Learning Systems with ETH Zürich. Furthermore, he is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Founding Editorial Board Member of the journal AAAS Science Robotics.

Publications His most cited publications are:

Ambarish Ghosh & Peer Fischer "Controlled propulsion of artificial magnetic nano-structured propellers" Nano Letters . 2009, 9, 6, 2243–2245. [2] [3] According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 1013 times Stefano Palagi, Andrew G. Mark, Shang Yik Reigh, Kai Melde, Tian Qiu, HaoZeng, Camilla Parmeggiani, Daniele Martella, Alberto Sanchez-Castillo, Nadia Kapernaum, Frank Giesselmann, Diederik S. Wiersma, Eric Lauga, Peer Fischer "Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots" Nature Materials (2016) doi:10.1038/nmat4569 [4] According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 425 times Andrew G. Mark†, John G. Gibbs, Tung-Chun Lee and Peer Fischer "Hybrid nanocolloids with programmed three-dimensional shape and material composition" Nature Materials 23 June 2013 | DOI: 10.1038/NMAT3685 [5] According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 343 times G.-Z.Yang, J.Bellingham, P.E.Dupont, P.Fischer, L.Floridi, R.Full, N.Jacobstein, V.Kumar, M. McNutt, R. Merrifield, B. J. Nelson, B. Scassellati, M. Taddeo, R. Taylor, M. Veloso, Z. L. Wang, R. Wood, The grand challenges of Science Robotics. Science Robotics. 3, eaar7650 (2018). [6] According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 394 times

Honors World Technology Award 2016

References

External links Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Lab at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems *Peer Fischer's group at University of Stuttgart Archived 2018-10-10 at the Wayback Machine

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Peer Fischer

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Peer Fischer claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Peer Fischer before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Peer Fischer ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Peer Fischer

In research: Peer Fischer appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Peer Fischer in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Peer Fischer is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics British scientists, Living people, Roboticists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Peer Fischer outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Peer Fischer in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Peer Fischer means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Peer Fischer out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Peer Fischer in simple terms?

Peer Fischer is a German robotics researcher, specializing in biological nanorobotics. Biography He received a B.Sc. in Physics from Imperial College London.

Why does Peer Fischer matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Peer Fischer?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Peer Fischer.