The Team

Joachim Frank

Dr. Frank is a HHMI investigator, and also a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, a Research Professor of Cell Biology at New York University School of Medicine, and Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York at Albany. Born and educated in Germany, he received his Diplom in physics from the University of Munich. In his doctoral research, conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, and at the Technical University of Munich, he developed methods of digital image analysis as applied to electron microscopy. In his postdoctoral research, in the United States and at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, U.K., he worked on problems of electron optics and image processing… Read more.