Alex de Marco

Dr. Alex de Marco is the Director at the Simons Electron Microscopy Center and is a distinguished electron microscopist known for innovative research in the field of cryo-electron tomography. He earned his PhD from EMBL and Heidelberg University (ermany) specializing in cryo-electron tomography and image processing. His work resulted in the first structural description of the viral maturation in HIV-1 and the first sub-nm structure ever solved using sub-tomographic averaging. He then worked as Product Manager at FEI Company (now Thermo Fisher) and introduced solutions for cryo-FIB milling and correlative microscopy. In 2016 he returned to academic research starting his group at Monash University. His research focused on methods and technology development for high resolution in situ cryo-electron microscopy while maintaining an interest in the development of non-linear micro-optics. In 2023, he became director of the Simons Electron Microscopy Center at the New York Structural Biology Center.