From Macro to Nano - Beyond Super-Resolution Microscopy
Christian Franke
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Short Vita
From 2006-2012, Professor Franke studied physics at the University of Würzburg. Afterwards, he joined the group of Prof. Markus Sauer at the Biocenter Würzburg to do his PhD work in methods development for quantitative super-resolution microscopy. In 2017 he finished his PhD work and started his Postdoctoral research in applied super-resolution microscopy at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Dresden in the department of Prof. Dr. Marino Zerial. Here, he worked on applying super-resolution microscopy to the study of endosomal trafficking processes at the nanoscale, including the uptake, transport and release of (lipid-) nanoparticles.
In November 2020 he started his own Lab as an Assistant Professor of Digitized Experimental Microscopy at the Institute of Applied Optics and Biophysics (IAOB) of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, combining development of novel optical and computational tools with their application to biological and clinical questions across all scales of life - from meters to nanometers.
He currently serves as the representative of the Physics and Astronony Department at FSU Jena for the Master of Medical PhotonicsExternal link and the Physics courses (lectures, tutorials, practical courses) for students of medicine and dentistry.
