Joerg Bewersdorf, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology and of Biomedical Engineering
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Biography
Joerg Bewersdorf is a Professor of Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Physics at Yale University. He received his Master's degree (Dipl. Phys., 1998) and his doctoral degree in physics (Dr. rer. nat., 2002) training with Dr. Stefan W. Hell at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany. After 4 years at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, he relocated his research group to Yale University in 2009. An optical physicist/biophysicist by training, Dr. Bewersdorf has been a long-time contributor to the field of super-resolution light microscopy development and the application of these techniques to cell biological questions.
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral fellowMax Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (2005)
- PhDUniversity of Heidelberg (2002)
Departments & Organizations
- Biochemistry, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BQBS)
- Cell Biology
- Cell Biology Research
- Diabetes Research Center
- Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
- Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
- Office of Cooperative Research
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- YCCEH