AVS
53rd
International Symposium & Exhibition
November
12 -17, 2006
Moscone West Convention Center
San Francisco, CA
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Symposium Plenary Lecture
Monday, November 13, 2006,12 Noon,
Room 3001, Moscone West Convention Center
“Far-field fluorescence microscopy at the macromolecular scale”
Stefan W. Hell
Director, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
 Stefan
W. Hell is a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and a Director at
the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in
Göttingen, where he currently leads the Department of Nano Biophotonics. He
is an Honorary Professor of experimental physics at the University of
Göttingen and Adjunct Professor of physics at the University of Heidelberg.
Since 2003 he has led the High Resolution Optical Microscopy Division at the
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, and is a member of the
Board of Directors of the Göttingen Laser Laboratory.
Stefan Hell received his doctorate in physics from the University of
Heidelberg in 1990. From 1991 to 1993 he worked at the European Molecular
Biology Laboratory, also in Heidelberg, and followed by stays as a senior
researcher at the University of Turku, Finland, between 1993 and 1996, and
as a visiting scientist at the University of Oxford, England, in 1994. In
1996, he received his habilitation in physics from Heidelberg, where he
teaches physics. In 1997, he was appointed to the Max Planck Institute for
Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, where he has built up his current
research group dedicated to sub-diffraction-resolution microscopy. In 2002,
following his appointment as a director, he established the Department of
Nanobiophotonics.
Stefan Hell is credited with having both conceived and validated the first
viable concept for breaking Abbe’s diffraction-limited resolution barrier in
a light-focusing microscope. He has published more than 100 original
publications in refereed journals and has received several national and
international awards, including the Prize of the International Commission in
Optics (2000) and the Carl Zeiss Research Award (2002).With his wife Anna he
has two sons, Sebastian and Jonathan.
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