Mathias Höfler studied physics at the University of Konstanz, where he received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in 2016 and 2019, respectively. In his undergraduate research, he studied the wavelength dependency of DNA damage induction using femtosecond lasers and the recruitment dynamics of DNA repair proteins. During his master’s courses, he focused on soft matter physics and MD simulations in the field of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition, where he studied the transition for an off-lattice XY model. Fascinated by the physics underlying biology, in 2020, he joined the BPM group. His current work studies plant growth and development at the plant shoot.