Philipp Kukura

He was born in Bratislava, then Czechoslovakia[2] in a family of Slovak actor Juraj Kukura. In 1984 the family emigrated to Germany. In 2002 he graduated with a Master of Chemistry from the University of Oxford. In 2006 he completed his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley College of Chemistry.

After completing his PhD, Philipp Kukura moved to Zürich. There he worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral research assistant under the supervision of Professor Vahid Sandoghdar on nano-optics until 2010.[2] He returned to Oxford in 2010 to work initially as an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow. In 2011 he was elected to a tutorial fellowship at Exeter College.[2] In 2016 he was promoted to Full Professor of Chemistry.[1]

In 2018 Philipp Kukura founded Refeyn Ltd., to commercialise mass photometry,[1] and served as CEO until 2020.[3]

• Arroyo, J. O. Andrecka, J., Spillane, K. M., Billington, N., Takagi, Y., Sellers, J. R., Kukura, P.: Label-free, all-optical detection, imaging, and tracking of a single protein Nano Letters, 2014.
• Cole, D., Young, G., Weigel, A., Kukura, P.: Label-free single molecule imaging with numerical aperture-shaped interferometric scattering microscopy ACS Photonics, 2017.
• Young, G., Hundt, N., Cole, D., Fineberg, A., Andrecka, J., Tyler, A., Olerinyova, A., Ansari, A., Marklund, E. G., Collier, M. P., Chandler, S. A., Tkachenko, O., Allen, J., Crispin, M., Billington, N., Takagi, Y., Sellers, J. R., Eichmann, C., Selenko, P.,Frey, L., Riek, R., Galpin, M. R., Struwe, W. B., Benesch, J. L. P., Kukura, P.: Quantitative mass imaging of single biological macromolecules Science, 2018.

• 2019 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists UK (Chemistry) Laureate[4]
• 2018 Klung Wilhelmy Science Award (Chemistry)[5]
• 2018 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists UK (Chemistry) Finalist[1]
• 2018 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award[1]
• 2017 EBSA Young Investigator Award and Medal[6]
• 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry Marlow Award[7]
• 2015 Visiting Professor at Sapienza University of Rome[1]
• 2014 European Research Council Starting Investigator Grant[8]
• 2014 Visiting Professor at University of Erlangen–Nuremberg[1]
• 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry Harrison-Meldola Award[9]
• 2011 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry[1]
• 2010 EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship[1]
• 2006 Society of Spectroscopy Graduate Student Award[1]
• 2002 Thesis Prize, Oxford University[1]

• Professor Kukura’s personal page on Exeter College web
• Kukura group page on Oxford University web
• Philipp Kukura on Blavatnik Awards Young Scientists page
• Refeyn Ltd. official web