Jonas Albers

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Jonas Albers is a leading figure in the development of advanced X-ray imaging techniques for the life sciences, with a primary focus on high-throughput phase-contrast tomography. His major contribution is the conception and implementation of the High Throughput Tomography (HiTT) platform, a groundbreaking system that dramatically accelerates the acquisition of three-dimensional structural data from biological samples. By harnessing the high photon flux of an undulator beamline at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) on PETRA III at DESY, Albers’s work enables tomographic phase-contrast imaging in approximately two minutes—a process that previously required significantly longer times. This innovation, detailed in his highly cited 2023 paper (23 citations), allows researchers to rapidly visualize the internal architecture of life-science specimens with exceptional contrast and detail, opening new avenues for high-volume studies in developmental biology and disease research. Albers’s work stands as a notable achievement in synchrotron instrumentation, directly addressing the critical need for speed and versatility in modern bioimaging, and his platform is poised to become a standard tool for structural biologists worldwide.