Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Eva Nogales is a Distinguished Professor in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
She studied physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, did her doctorate in biophysics at the University of Keele, UK, and carried out her postdoctoral work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) where she obtained the structure of tubulin using electron crystallography. She joined the University of California, Berkeley in 1998 and has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2000. She is also a Senior Faculty Scientist at LBNL.
Nogales is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and foreign member the Real Academia de Ciencias de España and of EMBO. In 2020 she served as President of ASCB. In 2023 she received the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. Her lab uses cryo-EM to describe the structure, dynamics and interactions of large biological assemblies essential to the life of all eukaryotic cells, including microtubules and transcription and epigenetic complexes.