Professor Marco Fritzsche is the Scientific Director of the Oxford-ZEISS Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Imaging. He leads the Biophysical Immunology Laboratory between the Rosalind Franklin Institute and the Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology at the University of Oxford, UK. The BPI Laboratory aims to unravel the impact of physics on the human immune response in health and disease.

For this mission, the BPI lab develops custom-built microscopy technology at the interface of biophysics and immunology. Prof Fritzsche holds a MSc in theoretical physics and conducted his PhD in experimental biophysics and cell-biology at the London Centre for Nanotechnology at the University College London, UK. He performed his Postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford in close collaboration with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm, USA.