Bernd Robrahn

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Bernd Robrahn is a leading figure in the development of synchrotron instrumentation for structural biology, with a career dedicated to pushing the boundaries of high-throughput macromolecular analysis. His primary research focuses on advancing beamline automation and sample delivery systems for X-ray scattering and crystallography. Robrahn’s most notable contribution is the design and implementation of the automated setup for small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS) at the EMBL Hamburg X33 beamline, a system that enabled rapid, in-vacuum switching between sample cells for high-throughput solution scattering (71 citations). This work revolutionized the efficiency of SAXS data collection, allowing researchers to screen large numbers of biological samples with unprecedented speed. He also played a key role in automating the EMBL Hamburg protein crystallography beamline BW7B (49 citations), a fixed-energy wiggler beamline that became a workhorse for the structural biology community. Through these achievements, Robrahn has significantly enhanced the accessibility and throughput of synchrotron facilities, enabling thousands of experiments that have advanced our understanding of protein structure and function.