Leaderboards/Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications

Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Fabian Eisenstein
ETH Zurich
2
Casper Berger
Maastricht University
3
David Herreros
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología
4
Marius Constantin Chirita Mihaila
Charles University
5
Basile I. M. Wicky
ETH Zurich
6
Larissa Heinrich
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
7
Robin Girod
University of Antwerp
8
Artur Speiser
Max Planck Society
9
Alexander Henkes
Technische Universität Braunschweig
10
Jan A. Stevens
University of Groningen

Papers

1
Smart parallel automated cryo-electron tomography
Nature Methods|2024
37 cit.
2
Spiking neural networks for nonlinear regression
Royal Society Open Science|2024
34 cit.
3
Xenon plasma focused ion beam lamella fabrication on high-pressure frozen specimens for structural cell biology
Nature Communications|2025
14 cit.
4
Publication in Nature Communications (2025) [12 citations, W4409679593]
Nature Communications|2025
12 cit.
5
Generative adversarial networks enable outlier detection and property monitoring for additive manufacturing of complex structures
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence|2024
10 cit.
6
In situ and in vitro cryo-EM reveal structures of mycobacterial encapsulin assembly intermediates
Communications Biology|2025
4 cit.
7
Publication in Nature Methods (2025) [W4414517089]
Nature Methods|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Paul Guichard
University of Geneva
2
Klaus Gwosch
Carl Zeiss (Germany)
3
Yvan Eilers
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
4
Xinzheng Zhang
Institute of Biophysics
5
Julia Mahamid
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
6
Alexis Rohou
Helix (United States)
7
Petr Chlanda
Heidelberg University
8
Alex J. Noble
New York Structural Biology Center
9
Christophe Leterrier
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
10
Ilaria Testa
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Papers

1
Visualizing translation dynamics at atomic detail inside a bacterial cell
Nature|2022
196 cit.
2
Waffle Method: A general and flexible approach for improving throughput in FIB-milling
Nature Communications|2022
151 cit.
3
Visualizing the native cellular organization by coupling cryofixation with expansion microscopy (Cryo-ExM)
Nature Methods|2022
117 cit.
4
iU-ExM: nanoscopy of organelles and tissues with iterative ultrastructure expansion microscopy
Nature Communications|2023
105 cit.
5
Event-triggered STED imaging
Nature Methods|2022
104 cit.
6
SARS-CoV-2 nsp3 and nsp4 are minimal constituents of a pore spanning replication organelle
Nature Communications|2023
99 cit.
7
IFITM3 blocks influenza virus entry by sorting lipids and stabilizing hemifusion
Cell Host & Microbe|2023
88 cit.
8
Time-series reconstruction of the molecular architecture of human centriole assembly
Cell|2024
77 cit.
9
Molecular mechanisms of stress-induced reactivation in mumps virus condensates
Cell|2023
67 cit.
10
Stimulated emission depletion microscopy
Nature Reviews Methods Primers|2024
66 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Stefan W. Hell
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
2
David A. Agard
University of California, San Francisco
3
Yifan Cheng
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
4
Nikolaus Grigorieff
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
5
Harald F. Hess
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6
Thomas E. Ferrin
University of California, San Francisco
7
Steven J. Plimpton
Sandia National Laboratories
8
Paul D. Adams
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
9
Marcus A. Brubaker
York University
10
Sjors H. W. Scheres
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Papers

1
UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
Journal of Computational Chemistry|2004
47.8k cit.
2
Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular Dynamics
Journal of Computational Physics|1995
44.6k cit.
3
<i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography|2010
24.5k cit.
4
LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales
Computer Physics Communications|2021
11.5k cit.
5
cryoSPARC: algorithms for rapid unsupervised cryo-EM structure determination
Nature Methods|2017
10.7k cit.
6
<scp>UCSF ChimeraX</scp>: Structure visualization for researchers, educators, and developers
Protein Science|2020
10.1k cit.
7
Imaging Intracellular Fluorescent Proteins at Nanometer Resolution
Science|2006
8.9k cit.
8
MotionCor2: anisotropic correction of beam-induced motion for improved cryo-electron microscopy
Nature Methods|2017
8.9k cit.
9
Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in <i>Phenix</i>
Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology|2019
7.4k cit.
10
Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy
Optics Letters|1994
6.1k cit.

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