Enhancing miniscope recordings of freely behaving animals with high-resolution, multicolor Airyscan imaging

Nicolai Urban is a physicist by training who has gone on to build a career in neuroscience and technology. As Head of the Light Microscopy Core at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) in Jupiter, Florida, he collaborates with researchers to answer cutting edge neuroscience questions using high- and super-resolution imaging techniques, and to develop new methodologies and imaging applications. Dr. Urban specializes in STED super-resolution microscopy, a technique developed by Nobel laureate Dr. Stefan W. Hell, under whom Dr. Urban studied as a doctoral student. Dr. Urban also works as an independent consultant for Abberior Instruments America, manufacturer and distributor of STED imaging technology, and played a major role in establishing Abberior Instruments’ first North American location at the Max Planck Florida Headquarters in 2017. Prior to working with MPFI, Dr. Urban was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of NanoBiophotonics at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, where he also earned his PhD with the rank of “summa cum laude” and defended his thesis under two Nobel laureates. He has spoken about advances in imaging at events throughout the world such as the Society for Neuroscience Conferences, SPIE Photonics West, Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS) in Genoa, Italy, Molekulare Bildgebung (MOBI) in Göttingen, Germany, and the Joint European Magnetic Symposia in Dublin Ireland. His work has been published in many notable journals, including Nature, Neuron, and Nature Communications.