Janos Hajdu (biophysicist)

Hajdu was born in Budapest, Hungary and studied chemistry at Eötvös Loránd University. He received his PhD in biology from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1980, working under Péter Friedrich and Brunó Ferenc Straub. He received a second PhD in physics from the same institution in 1994. Between 1981 and 1988, Hajdu worked at the University of Oxford under Louise Johnson and became a lecturer at Oxford afterwards.[3] From 2004, Hajdu became a team leader at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for coherent diffraction imaging, where his team had imaged live bacteria with ultrashort X-ray pulses.[4]

Hajdu became a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala since 2001. He received the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Award in 2011.[5] In 2021, Hajdu was awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize along with Henry Chapman and John Spence.[3][6]

• Henry Chapman