Founders and people

The Founders

Professor Carl Caleman is employed at the division of X-ray Photon Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy and at the Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science in Hamburg. Prof. Caleman is coordinator for the Biophysics network and his research focuses on X-ray matter interaction and bio imaging.

Assistant professor Erik Marklund from Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry - BMC is the deputy coordinator for the network and his research aims to unravel the dynamics and interactions of proteins and protein complexes.

Professor Olle Björneholm from the division of X-ray Photon Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy. He is a director of the Center for Photon Science and has a keen interest in phenomena and processes connected to the electronic and geometric structure of liquids and clusters/nanoparticles, including x-ray-induced dynamics,

Dr. Tomas Ekeberg from Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology research goals is to utilize the ultrafast pulses of free-electron lasers together with new algorithms to pick out diffraction from protein complexes.

Professor Filipe Maia from Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology focuses on the development of lensless imaging methods using X-rays, making use of X-ray free-electron lasers as a powerful coherent light source.

Dr. Kenta Okamoto from Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, research aims to unveil new functional structural features of problematic viruses using cryo-EM single particle analysis.

Docent Nicusor Timneanu is employed at the division of X-ray Photon Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy. Nicusor is coordinating the Master's Programme in Biophysics and his research interest is the ultrafast interaction of intense X-ray lasers with matter and creation of extreme states of matter.

Assitant professor Malin Wohlert from Applied Mechanics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, main research interest is modeling and understanding of biomaterials such as wood in both native and processed state.