Assistant Professor at EPFL
After a Ph.D. in molecular physics, Ulrich Lorenz did a postdoc with Ahmed Zewail at Caltech, where he became interested in time-resolved and ultrafast electron microscopy. He is an Assistant Professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where his research is being supported by an ERC Starting Grant since 2016. His interests revolve around the development of new methods to image the dynamics of nanoscale systems at high spatial and temporal resolution. Recently, his group put forward a new approach to time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy that affords a time resolution of just a few microseconds, three orders of magnitude faster than previously possible. His group will apply this approach to observe the dynamics in HIV envelope fusion.