Friedrich Förster has received his PhD from the Technical University Munich for his thesis work performed at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. He has spent 3 years as a postdcotoral scholar at the University of California in San Francisco, US; in 2009 he became independent research group leader at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany and since 2016 Friedrich is Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Friedrich Förster serves as the director of the Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research.
Ariane Briegel received her PhD from the Technical University Munich for her thesis work performed at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried,Germany. She spent 5 years as postdoctoral researcher and subsequent as a research scientist at the California Institute of Technology and the Howard Hughes Medical Center in the US. In 2015 Ariane became Full Professor in Ultrastructural Biology at the Leiden University, The Netherlands. Ariane Briegel is Co-Director of the Netherlands Center for Electron Nanoscopy,
