Functional Proteins for the Future Core Group member and co-leader of WG2 (Experiments on functional proteins at synchrotron and neutron sites), LINXS Fellow

Professor, University of Bergen, Norway

Prof. Kursula leads a research unit at the University of Bergen, where her research focuses on integrative structural biology and molecular motors, in particular the molecular mechanisms of parasite motility. She has extensive experience with large research infrastructures, including synchrotrons, cryo-EM, and X-ray free electron lasers. She has served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European XFEL, chaired its proposal review panel for the SPB/SFX instrument, and coordinated the XBI User Consortium that established a biological infrastructure for the European XFEL. She also holds a part-time professorship at the University of Oulu, Finland, and has deposited more than 60 structures in the Protein Data Bank.