Andrew Aloysius McCarthy is the Team Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation (since 2007), and a member of the ATTRACT PCB (since 2016). He obtained a Ph.D. in 1997 from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was a research associate at Utrecht University and a postdoctoral researcher at Massey University and Auckland University. He has more than 25 years of experience in structural biology and co-authored over 73 publications. He is an expert in X-ray diffraction techniques but also uses electron and light microscopy imaging technologies to better understand biological questions. His team is dedicated to the further development of X-ray diffraction and scattering techniques and they significantly contribute to the design and operation of several structural biology beamlines at the ESRF. He was also a member of the Alkion Biopharama scientific advisory board which was acquired by Evonik. The EMBL has significant experience in developing innovative X-ray diffraction and imaging instruments, as well as the methods and analysis algorithms needed to process this data for biological applications. He hopes this experience, when coupled with the ATTRACT initiative, can be used to create the next generation of imaging technologies needed to address the ever-growing need of the biological community.
