Radostin Danev PhD

Rado Danev (b. 1973) is a physicist interested in the development and application of new methods in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). He studied solid-state physics (1991-1997) at Sofia University in Bulgaria. In 1998 he obtained a Japanese government Monbusho scholarship and begun his doctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Nagayama at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Okazaki, Japan.
Rado was the project leader of an academia-industry collaboration between the Baumeister department and the FEI company. The goal of the collaboration was to develop a high-performance phase plate and it led to the invention of the Volta phase plate. In 2017 Rado was awarded the Ernst Ruska prize of the German Society for Electron Microscopy.