Thermo Fisher Scientific Special Events at M&M 2026

About the speaker:

Claudia earned her master’s degree and PhD in biology from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. She conducted her doctoral research at the Institute of Cellular Biology and Neurosciences “Dr. Eduardo De Robertis,” where she learned to operate her first TEM.

In 2003, she joined Oregon Health & Science University as a postdoctoral researcher and later joined Dr. Barklis’s laboratory, where she worked on HIV capsid assembly and contributed to the OHSU Electron Microscopy Core, applying and expanding her expertise in electron microscopy. She subsequently became director of the Multiscale Microscopy Core, expanding its instrumentation and capabilities to include cryo-TEM, cryo-SEM, and volume EM technologies. Since 2018, she has served as director of the Pacific Northwest Cryo-EM Center, an NIH-funded national cryo-EM center that has supported more than 1,000 scientists across over 780 research projects through access to advanced instrumentation, training, and cryo-EM services.

Her career has focused on expanding access to advanced microscopy technologies through innovative research infrastructure, user support, and training programs. She is deeply committed to STEM education and workforce development, having trained and mentored students, postdoctoral fellows, staff scientists, and faculty in advanced imaging techniques for over two decades. Through these efforts, she has helped broaden access to microscopy while fostering the next generation of scientists and microscopy specialists.