Dr. Ruben Fernandez-Busnadiego received his undergraduate degree in physics from the Complutense University of Madrid. He carried out his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, investigating the structure of synapses by cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET). Later on, as a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of Medicine, he studied various aspects of membrane biology in neurons. He then returned to the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry to lead a group investigating the structural links between protein aggregation and cell death in neurodegenerative diseases. Since 2019, he is a professor at the University Medical Center Göttingen. His group continues to employ cutting-edge cryo-ET to investigate the structural basis of cellular function and disease-related dysfunction.