Simon Scheuring BS, PhD

Simon Scheuring is the head of the “Bio-AFM-Lab” at Weill Cornell Medicine, associated to the ‘Department of Anesthesiology’ and the ‘Department of Physiology & Biophysics’. Simon Scheuring is a trained biologist from the Biozentrum at the University of Basel, Switzerland (1992-1996). During his PhD in the laboratory of Andreas Engel (1997-2001), he learned electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy, and got interested in membrane proteins. During this period he worked on the structure determination of aquaporins in collaboration with Peter Agre. During his postdoc at the Institut Curie in Paris, France, in the laboratory of Jean-Louis Rigaud (2001-2004), he learned membrane physical chemistry and developed atomic force microscopy for the study of native membranes.