The group’s focus of its interdisciplinary research activities is on the characterization of biogenic materials, especially of structural proteins. The underlying peptides or proteins are modified for technically relevant product requirements, the mimetic constructs are subsequently produced biotechnologically, and processed into interesting technical and medical application forms. Natural materials often have optimized properties that far exceed those of artificially produced products. This characteristic makes structural proteins such as spider silk or mussel byssus, among others, attractive as idea generators for the development of innovative, bioinspired materials applied in biomedicine or nanobiotechnology, for example.