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Christophe is a Swiss-American nanoscientist from Basel, Switzerland. After obtaining a Bachelor and Master degree in molecular biology from the Biozentrum (University of Basel, Switzerland), he moved to the Adolphe Merkle Institute (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) to pursue a PhD in nanoscience. He was subsequently awarded a fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation to complete a post-doctoral study in the Waite Group at UCSB. His expertise lies in bio/nanomaterials and their investigation under native conditions, and he is specialized in a variety of high-resolution microscopy techniques (AFM, TEM, cryoTEM, STEM and electron tomography).