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About Johan Elf
- Per Johan Sven Elf, (born May 8, 1975) is a Swedish biophysicist and biomolecular engineer.
- As of 2013 he is professor of physical biology at Uppsala universitet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. In 2010, Elf was awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize in molecular biology "for his innovative and groundbreaking studies of single protein-DNA interactions". Elf defended his PhD thesis in 2004 on Intracellular flow and fluctuations.Elf is a member of the Chemistry class at the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences since 2016.Elf studies dynamic processes in bacterial cells using sensitive optical methods and quantitative models.
- His main contributions to science falls within the following categories: Genetic encoding, algorithms for spatially-dependent stochastic simulations, methods for single molecule tracking in living cells , mechanisms of molecular search kinetics and antibiotic susceptibility testing.
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