We are excited to welcome Dr. Katerina Kanevche to the laboratory of Lightwave Metrology.

Katerina received her doctorate degree in 2022 from the department of Physics at the Free University in Berlin. In her thesis project she employed advanced near-field infrared (IR) microscopy techniques to spatially resolve the chemical composition of various biological systems and soft matter with nanometer resolution. In particular, she
used scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (sSNOM) to resolve the content of proteins and other molecular species across the sub-cellular structure of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
After her PhD, Katerina joined the department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at Princeton University in the US, where she continued pushing the boundaries of the applications of near-field microscopy in biology. In Princeton she led an effort to construct a cryogenic near-field microscope optimized for imaging of flash frozen cellular thin sections. This technology allows measuring the chemical composition of small molecules within cells in their near-native conditions.
Katerina’s research interests revolve around the development of microscopic and spectroscopic techniques and their application to cellular imaging with high chemical and spatial specificity. Her research at the Lightwave lab will focus on implementing field-resolved spectroscopy and microscopy for the investigation of cells.