Egner, Alexander, (apl.) Prof. Dr.

Director at the Laser Laboratory Göttingen


  • 1997 Physics Diploma, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg
  • 2002 Dr. rer. nat. (Physics), Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg
  • 2002-2003 Postdoc (High Resolution Optical Microscopy Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany)
  • 2003-2010 Senior Scientist (Department of NanoBiophotonics, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany)
  • 2005-2010 Head of the Central Light Microscopy Facility (Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany)
  • Since 2010- Director, Laser-Laboratory-Göttingen, Göttingen




Major Research Interests

High-resolution optical microscopy, superresolution, nanoscopy, statistical imaging.



Homepage Department/Research Group
https://www.ifnano.de/optische-nanoskopie/



Selected Recent Publications

  • Krüger JR, Keller-Findeisen J, Geisler C, Egner A. Tomographic STED microscopy, Biomed. Opt. Express 11, 3139-3163 (2020)
    https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/abstract.cfm?uri=boe-11-6-3139
  • Vinçon B, Geisler C, Egner A, Pixel hopping enables fast STED nanoscopy at low light dose, Opt. Express 28, 4516-4528 (2020)
    https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-28-4-4516
  • Aquino D, Schönle A, Geisler C, von Middendorff C, Wurm CA, Okamura Y, Lang T, Hell SW, Egner A. Two-color nanoscopy of three-dimensional volumes by 4Pi detection of stochastically switched fluorophores. Nature Methods, 8 (4), 353 - 359
  • Hua Y, Sinha R, Thiel C, Schmidt R, Huve J, Martens H, Hell SW, Egner A, Klingauf J (2011) A readily retrievable pool of synaptic vesicles. Nature Neuroscience, doi:10.1038/nn.2838
  • Hell SW, Schmidt R, Egner A (2009) Diffraction-unlimited three-dimensional optical nanoscopy with opposing lenses. Nature Photonics 3, 381 - 387
  • Meyer AC, Frank T, Khimich D, Hoch G, Riedel D, Chapochnikov N, Yarin YM, Harke B, Hell SW, Egner A, Moser T (2009) Tuning of synapse number, structure and function in the cochlea. Nature Neuroscience 12 (4), 444-453
  • Schmidt R, Wurm CA, Jakobs S, Engelhardt J, Egner A, Hell SW (2008) Spherical nanosized focal spot unravels the interior of cells. Nature Meth. 5 (6), 539 - 544