Ilaria Testa

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Ilaria Testa
Alma materUniversity of Genoa
OccupationPhysicist
Known forRESOLFT, superresolution microscopy
Scientific career
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Academic advisorsAlberto Diaspro
Stefan Hell
Websitewww.testalab.org

Ilaria Testa is an Italian-born scientist who is a

SciLifeLab in Stockholm and an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Physics at the School of Engineering Science at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.[1] She has made major contributions to advanced microscopy, particularly superresolution microscopy (RESOLFT, STED).[citation needed
]

Education

Testa studied physics at University of Genoa in Italy and graduated with a M.Sc. in 2005. In 2009, she earned her Ph.D. in Biotechnology. During her Ph.D., she worked on quantitative methods in single-molecule biophysics and studied transitional states in fluorescent proteins.[2] After completing her thesis, supervised by Alberto Diaspro, she joined Stefan Hell's research group at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, Germany as a postdoctoral researcher[3] where she had already spent part of her doctoral studies.

Career and research

At the

life sciences.[4][5][6][7][8]

In 2015, Testa was appointed Fellow at the

SciLifeLab in Stockholm and assistant professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. At the SciLifeLab, she set up the Laboratory for Advanced Optical BioImaging.[9] Recently, she was appointed associate professor.[10]

Testa and her team continue to develop further and use superresolution techniques such as STED and RESOLFT microscopy to understand the fundamental biological processes for health and diseases.[11][12][13]

Testa is a well-known microscopist who is an established member of the advanced microscopy community and is frequently invited on panels and as a keynote speaker at key conferences in the field.[14][15][16]

Awards and honors

  • 2015, ERC Starting Grant "MoNaLISA" [17]
  • 2017, ESP Young Investigator Award[18]
  • 2020, ERC Consolidator Grant "InSpIRe"[19][20][21]

References

  1. ^ "Ilaria Testa". Retrieved 2023-07-06.
  2. S2CID 256836501
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  3. ^ "Interview: Staying focused". eLife. October 9, 2017.
  4. S2CID 2393728
    – via www.nature.com.
  5. S2CID 17238219
    – via www.nature.com.
  6. PMID 25423166
    – via CrossRef.
  7. ^ https://www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S0896-6273(12)00719-2.pdf
  8. ^ "Pushing the Boundaries of Super-resolution Microscopy" – via www.youtube.com.
  9. ^ "TestaLab". www.testalab.org.
  10. ^ "KTH | Ilaria Testa". www.kth.se.
  11. S2CID 231585351
    – via www.nature.com.
  12. PMID 30115928
    .
  13. S2CID 256840689
    – via www.nature.com.
  14. ^ "Seeing is Believing: Imaging the Molecular Processes of Life – Course and Conference Office". www.embl.org.
  15. ^ "Speakers – Rudolf-Virchow-Zentrum – Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging". www.uni-wuerzburg.de.
  16. ^ "Speakers – SMLMS 2023".
  17. ^ "Long-term molecular nanoscale imaging of neuronal function | MoNaLISA | Project | Fact sheet | H2020 | CORDIS | European Commission".
  18. ^ "ESP Young Investigator Award | European Society for Photobiology". www.photobiology.eu.
  19. ^ "Two KTH researchers receive ERC Consolidator Grants". KTH.
  20. ^ "Three SciLifeLab researchers receive ERC Consolidator Grants". December 17, 2020.
  21. ^ "List of Principal Investigators – LS domain" (PDF).
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