Prof. Dr Achilleas Frangakis

Prof. Dr. Achilleas Frangakis is the Director of the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt and a member of the Cluster of Excellence “SCALE.” Born in Athens, he moved to Germany in 1998 to pursue his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich. In 2002, he began a postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech in Pasadena, California, before becoming a group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg. Since 2008, he has held a professorship in Cryo-Electron Microscopy and serves as Head of the Center for Electron Microscopy at Goethe University Frankfurt.