Professor Achillefs Kapanidis

BA Thessaloniki, MA Oxf, MSc PhD Rutgers

a.kapanidis1@physics.ox.ac.uk

Professor Achillefs Kapanidis

Professor of Biological Physics

Fellow

I joined Oxford Physics in 2004 to start a research group that uses ultrasensitive microscopy to study biological machinery involved in gene expression (the path from genes on DNA to functional proteins) and its regulation. We study machines of gene expression by observing single biomachines in real time, "in vitro" and in living cells. Our main tool is single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy, a technique that can measure nanometre distances and study molecular interactions in real time (as "molecular movies"). Our work is multidisciplinary, combining diverse disciplines such as optics, spectroscopy, biochemistry, molecular biology, computation, molecular modelling, and signal processing.

My team is a Biological Physics research group within Condensed Matter Physics. We are also linked to the Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre (DTC-LSI) and the Wellcome Trust graduate programme in structural biology.

Professor Kapanidis uses microscopy to investigate COVID-19 infection dynamics. Updates on his research will be posted here.

St Cross scientists part of team that has developed an extremely rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test - 15 October
Achillefs Kapanidis and Andrew McMahon use mathematical modelling to investigate COVID-19 - 2 July 2020
Measure and control: COVID-19 rapid detection - 25 March 2020

Professor Achillefs Kapanidis