Janos Hajdu
Born
János Gergely Menyhért Hajdu

(1948-09-17)17 September 1948
Budapest, Hungary
Education
Alma materEötvös Loránd University (Diploma in Chemistry)
Known forcoherent diffraction imaging
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisor
Other academic advisorsLouise Johnson
Notable studentsRichard Neutze
Websitelmb.icm.uu.se

Janos Hajdu (born 17 September 1948) is a Swedish/Hungarian biophysicist. He is a professor of molecular biophysics at Uppsala University and a senior scientist at the European Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC. [1][2]

Education and career

Hajdu was born in Budapest, Hungary and studied chemistry at Eötvös Loránd University. He received his PhD in biology from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1980, working under Péter Friedrich and Brunó Ferenc Straub. He received a D.Sc. in physics from the same institution in 1994. Between 1981 and 1988, Hajdu worked at the University of Oxford under Louise Johnson and became a lecturer at Oxford afterwards.[3] From 2004, Hajdu became a full professor at Stanford, linked to the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and worked on coherent diffraction imaging, where his team had imaged live bacteria with ultrashort X-ray pulses.[4]

Honors and awards

Hajdu became a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala in 2001. He received the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Award in 2011.[5] In 2021, Hajdu was awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize along with Henry Chapman and John Spence.[3][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "János Hajdu: The pleasure of dealing with "near-fundamental truth" | ELI Beamlines – Dolní Břežany". www.eli-beams.eu. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
  2. ↑ "Köztestületi tagok". mta.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  3. 1 2 "Prof. János Hajdu receives the Gregori Aminoff Prize | ELI Beamlines – Dolní Břežany". www.eli-beams.eu. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  4. ↑ "Scientists Take First X-ray Portraits of Living Bacteria at the LCLS". SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  5. ↑ "ELIBIO | ELI Beamlines – Dolní Břežany". www.eli-beams.eu. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  6. ↑ "Aminoff Prize rewards explosive studies of biological macromolecules". Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien. 14 September 2020. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
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