Prof. Dr. Philipp Kukura is honored for his pioneering achievements in the development and application of optical methodologies in order to visualize and characterize individual biomolecules. Prof. Kukura is a collaborator of the SFB 1078 and has achieved exciting results on the initial photoreaction of channelrhodopsin-1 (Schnedermann et al., 2016, J Am Chem Soc. 138, 4757-4762).

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