Philipp Kukura

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Philipp Kukura
Born (1978-03-26) 26 March 1978 (age 43)
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Alma materSt Hugh's College, Oxford (MChem, 2002)
University of California, Berkeley College of Chemistry (PhD, 2006)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (Postdoctoral 2006–2010)
Known foroptical methodologies to detect, characterize and measure the molecular mass of individual biomolecules[1]
AwardsMarlow Award (2015)
EBSA Young Investigator Award and Medal (2015)
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2017)
Klung Wilhelmy Science Award (Chemistry) (2017)
Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists UK (Chemistry) (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical chemistry
InstitutionsExeter College, Oxford
Doctoral advisorRichard A. Mathies

Philipp Kukura FRSC (born 26 March 1978 ) is a physical chemist who works as professor of biophysical chemistry at the University of Oxford, and is a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.[2] Professor Kukura is head of an interdisciplinary research group that is focusing on the development and application of new optical methodologies for detecting, characterization and measurement of the molecular mass of individual biomolecules.[1]

Education and early life[]

He was born in Bratislava, then Czechoslovakia[3] in a family of Slovak actor Juraj Kukura. In 1984 the family emigrated to Germany, to Hamburg, where in 1998 young Kukura finished Wilhelm-Gymnasium obtaining the Abitur by passing the final exams.[2] In 2002 he graduated as Master of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. In 2006 he completed his PhD in Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley College of Chemistry.[1][2]

Career and research[]

After completing his PhD Philipp Kukura moved to Zürich. There he worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral research assistant under the supervision of professor Vahid Sandoghdar on nano-optics until 2010.[3] He returned to Oxford in 2010 to work initially as an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow. In 2011 he was elected to a tutorial fellowship at Exeter College.[3] Finally in 2016 has Philipp Kukura been promoted to Full Professor of Chemistry.[2]

In 2018 professor Philipp Kukura co-founded Refeyn Ltd., a society for mass photometry,[2] where he is non-executive Director.[4]

Selected publications[]

  • Arroyo, J. O. Andrecka, J., Spillane, K. M., Billington, N., Takagi, Y., Sellers, J. R., Kukura, P.: Label-free, all-optical detection, imaging, and tracking of a single protein Nano Letters, 2014.
  • Musser, A. J., Liebel, M., Schnedermann, C., Wende, T., Kehoe, T. B., Rao, A., Kukura, P.: Evidence for conical intersection dynamics mediating ultrafast singlet exciton fission Nature Physics 2015
  • Andrecka, J., Ortega-Arroyo, J. O., Takagi, Y., de Wit, G., Fineberg, A., MacKinnon, L., Young, G., Sellers, J. R., Kukura, P.: Structural dynamics of myosin 5 during processive motion revealed by interferometric scattering microscopy eLife 2015
  • Arroyo, J. O., Kukura, P.: Non-fluorescent schemes for single-molecule detection, imaging and spectroscopy Nature Photonics, 2016.
  • Cole, D., Young, G., Weigel, A., Kukura, P.: Label-free single molecule imaging with numerical aperture-shaped interferometric scattering microscopy ACS Photonics, 2017.
  • Liebel, M., Kukura, P.: Lack of evidence for phase-only control of retinal photoisomerization in the strict one-photon limit Nature Chemistry 2017
  • Young, G., Hundt, N., Cole, D., Fineberg, A., Andrecka, J., Tyler, A., Olerinyova, A., Ansari, A., Marklund, E. G., Collier, M. P., Chandler, S. A., Tkachenko, O., Allen, J., Crispin, M., Billington, N., Takagi, Y., Sellers, J. R., Eichmann, C., Selenko, P.,Frey, L., Riek, R., Galpin, M. R., Struwe, W. B., Benesch, J. L. P., Kukura, P.: Quantitative mass imaging of single biological macromolecules Science, 2018.

Honours and awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Philipp Kukura | Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists".
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m Kukura, Philipp. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Professor Philipp Kukura". Exeter College.
  4. ^ "Who we are". Refeyn Ltd. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  5. ^ "PHILIPP KUKURA — 2019 UNITED KINGDOM AWARD WINNER — FACULTY". Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  6. ^ "Award Winners in the field of chemistry since 1973". Klung-Wilhelmy-Wissenschafts-Preis. 2 October 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Prizes and medals awarded by EBSA". European Biophysical Societies' Association. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Marlow Award 2015 Winner". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  9. ^ "ERC FUNDED PROJECTS". European Research Council. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  10. ^ "Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize 2011 Winner". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 19 March 2021.

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