Dr. Diego Krapf

Biography

Dr. Diego Krapf was born in Rosario, Argentina. He received his B.Sc. in Physics and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During his Ph.D. research he worked on infrared optics on nanostructured materials in the lab of Prof. Amir Sa’ar. Then, Dr. Krapf joined the research group of Prof. Cees Dekker in the Netherlands where he focused on single-molecule biophysics using solid-state nanopores. Since August 2007, he serves as assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Colorado State University. Today his research interests lie on nanotechnology applications to study the dynamic behavior of protein-DNA complexes.