For my masters thesis I joined the Systems Biophysics AG Braun. I worked on templated ligation as possible pathway for non-enzymatic replication. I also worked on prototyping an experimental setup for realtime spectroscopy in thermophoretic traps. I learned hot to use Comsol to simulate thermal traps, LabView to simulate random motion of particles in flow fields and temperature gradients, and how to experimentally realize these simulations. Major technolohgies I worked with were HPLC-MS, Bioanalyzer, UV-spectroscopy. 