Kareem Elsayad

Kareem Elsayad heads the Advanced Microscopy team at the Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities (VBCF) in Vienna, Austria, where he and his team develop optical microscopy and spectroscopy techniques that are offered to biologists and medical researchers at a core facility based at VBCF. After a Ph.D. in condensed-matter physics, Kareem’s interests have focused on exploiting light-matter interactions to extract previously inaccessible information from biological systems. His research has broadly contributed to the fields of microscopy, high-resolution optical spectroscopy, and nanophotonics. Kareem currently chairs the EU funded “BioBrillouin” network, whose goal is to bring Brillouin light-scattering spectroscopy closer to applications in life science and medicine.