Joerg Bewersdorf received his diploma in 1988 and his doctoral degree in physics in 2002, both at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany. After 4 years at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbour, Maine, he relocated his research group to Yale University in 2009. An optical physicist/biophysicist by training, Bewersdorf has been a long-time contributor to the field of super-resolution light microscopy development and the application of these techniques to cell biological questions.