Diego Krapf is an Argentine-Israeli-American physicist known for his work on anomalous diffusion and ergodicity breaking.
10 Facts About Diego Krapf
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Diego Krapf currently is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University.
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Diego Krapf was born on November 21,1973, to Martha Elbert and Luis Krapf.
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Diego Krapf spent his childhood growing up in Rosario, Argentina, and he attended the Instituto Politecnico Superior.
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In 1992, after finishing high school, Krapf immigrated to Israel, where he spent half a year in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel and then moved to Jerusalem.
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Diego Krapf enrolled in physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Diego Krapf holds a BSc in physics, a MSc in applied physics and a PhD in applied physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Since 2007, Diego Krapf is a faculty member in Colorado State University, where he currently heads a Biophysics lab that focuses on anomalous diffusion and cellular architecture using a combination of analytical and experimental tools including single particle tracking and super-resolution imaging.
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In 2017, the Diego Krapf lab discovered that due to complex branching processes the actin cytoskeleton adjacent to the plasma membrane of mammalian cells form an intricate fractal structure.
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In 2018, an international team led by Diego Krapf involving researchers from the University of Massachusetts and the Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental revealed the organization of the actin-based cytoskeleton in the sperm flagellum using three-dimensional super-resolution imaging.