Our group’s success is largely as a result of how the institute is organized: inspired by a culture of openness, sharing and cooperation. Ultimately is about teamwork: it’s an incredible feeling when you understand something from a different perspective and share that. Kraków is an academic powerhouse. There are lots of excellent scientist with the same spirit of being connected and working together in Poland. It’s great to be here.
Sebastian Glatt studied at the University of Vienna and did his PhD in the pharmaceutical industry. In 2008, he joined the SCB unit at EMBL Heidelberg as a postdoc. There he transformed from a pure cell biologist into a protein biochemist, crystallographer, and electron microscopist. Since September 2015, he leads his own independent Max Planck Research Group at the MCB in Krakow. He established and maintained fruitful scientific collaborations with leading labs around the world. His work got published in the most prestigious scientific journals (e.g. Nature, Cell, Nature Structural Molecular Biology, EMBO Journal) and he has received several prestigious prize and grants. The list includes the ERC Consolidator grant 2020, the NCN Prize 2021 (LS), the EMBO Installation grant, the Krakow City Prize as well as several grants from FNP and NCN. He is not only leading an international research team, but he is also deputy director of science at MCB and head of the “National Cryo-EM facility“ at the SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre in Krakow.