Cell scientist to watch – Ana Garcia-Saez

Ana Garcia-Saez graduated with a master's degree in biochemistry from the University of Valencia, Spain, before completing a PhD in the laboratory of Jesus Salgado in 2005. Afterwards Ana joined the research group of Petra Schwille at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany. In 2010, she started her own group at BioQuant, the Center for Quantitative Analysis of Molecular and Cellular Biosystems, at Heidelberg University with funding from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ). Since 2013, Ana has been a full Professor at the University of Tübingen. Her work focuses on membrane dynamics of mitochondria and the interaction of proteins with membrane lipids in the context of cell death programs, where she uses biophysical models and single-molecule high-resolution microscopy.