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A man in an orange jacket stands in a snowy forest, smiling at the camera. The background is filled with leafless trees and snow.
A man in an orange jacket stands in a snowy forest, smiling at the camera. The background is filled with leafless trees and snow.

Alex de Marco, Ph.D.

Director, Simons Electron Microscopy Center (SEMC)

Affiliations
  • New York Structural Biology Center

De Marco is the director of the Simons Electron Microscopy Center (SEMC) at the New York Structural Biology Center, leading the world’s largest cryo-EM facility with 15 transmission electron microscopes, three cryo-FIB/SEM systems and 46 staff serving nearly 1,000 active users. His research focuses on method development for cryo-electron tomography, correlative microscopy and sample preparation, with contributions including the PIE-scope, OpenFIBSEM, Square Electron Beam illumination, and nanocrate technology to overcome air-water interface artifacts. His work has appeared in Nature, Science and Cell. He holds adjunct appointments at Columbia University and Monash University. He also directs the NIH National Center for CryoEM Access and Training and the NIH National Center for In-Situ Tomographic Ultramicroscopy.