Anna Zhitnitsky joined ImPhys as PhD student

Anna recently started her PhD with Sjoerd Stallinga and Bernd Rieger, during which she’ll be working on quantum super-resolution microscopy. She was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, where she did her BSc in physics and biology at the University of British Columbia. She worked with all sorts of organisms, like geckos, comb jellies, and cyanobacteria. After realising that biology is too frustrating because things tend to die, I went to do my master’s in physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where I made friends with lasers (which famously never die).

For her MSc thesis, she built a super-resolution coherent Raman microscope, and now she is really excited about making the pivot to quantum imaging, where we will make use of photon statistics to increase the capabilities of single-molecule localization microscopy.