Radostin Danev, Ph.D.

Professor

Rado Danev graduated solid-state physics at the Sofia University in Bulgaria. During his Ph.D., and in the following years, he worked on the development of phase plates for electron microscopy in the laboratory of Prof. Nagayama in Okazaki, Japan. He published the first phase plate applications in cryo-EM single particle analysis and cryo-tomography. In 2011 he became a group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. In the same year he was awarded the Burton Medal of the Microscopy Society of America. Rado was the project leader of an academia-industry collaboration that led to the invention of the Volta phase plate (VPP). In 2017 he was awarded the Ernst Ruska prize of the German Society for Electron Microscopy.