Benjamin Judkewitz

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Benjamin Judkewitz is a German neuroscientist and bio-imaging specialist. Since around 2019 he serves as Einstein Professor for Bioimaging and Neurophotonics at Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and the Einstein Center for Neurosciences (ECN) Berlin. He heads the “Judkewitz Lab” which combines neuroscience, engineering and physics to push the limits of optical microscopy and probe brain-wide circuits.

He is a pioneer in the field of deep-tissue optical imaging, developing novel techniques to overcome light scattering in biological tissue. His lab also introduced the transparent fish Danionella translucida as a new vertebrate model organism, allowing researchers to observe brain-wide neural dynamics and behavior with single-cell precision.

He has received numerous honors, including the Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship, the UCL Young Investigator Award, and the prestigious Einstein Strategic Professorship. His publications in Nature, Nature Methods, and Light: Science & Applications have been widely recognized.