4 Focus on your interest The interdisciplinary nature of the bachelor’s degree continues in the master’s program. However, you can now focus even more intensely on the topics of your interest by choosing your major subject from the disciplines of physics, chemistry, molecular biology and medical nanoscience. In the chosen major, you attend lectures and seminars and complete project work, as well as a master’s thesis at the end of the program. In your minor subject, you obtain additional credit points for visiting lec- tures and seminars and completing a second project. In this way, the interdisciplin- ary character of the study program is well preserved and simultaneously enables you to specialize in a specific domain. • Nanophysics: Analysis of structures on the nanometer scale, understanding and control of quantum phenomena and much more • Nanochemistry: Study of self-assembly phenomena and individual macro- molecules (e.g. nanocontainers), surface chemistry, nanostructured materials and other topics • Molecular Biology: Structure and function of biomolecules, mechanisms of natural nanomachines (e.g. molecular motors and energy converters) and much more • Medical Nanoscience: Applying nanotechnology to develop new drug therapies and medical diagnostics, insights into the synthesis, character- terization, design principle and evaluation of nanopharmaceutical formulations and interactions of nanomaterials with biomolecules “I was working on a selective filter for valuable metals in solutions using special types of membranes. Ultimately, the aim was to incorporate this new system into water treatment plants.” Manuel Kraus on his project work at the Department of Chemistry, University of Basel