Francisco Balzarotti (born in 1983 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentinian scientist known for his work in super-resolution microscopy, particularly MINFLUX.
In Göttingen, Balzarotti played a central role in developing the super-resolution microscopy method MINFLUX[5][6] which was named Breakthrough of the Year in 2017 by Physics World.
During Balzarotti's time in Göttingen, they were able to show that with MINFLUX, a given localization precision can be obtained by using much fewer photons than in conventional centroid-localization techniques such as PALM/STORM.
[12][13][14] Balzarotti's group focuses on the development of novel optical methods and instrumentation for the observation of biological phenomena with the highest fidelity.
[15][16] Balzarotti's group in collaboration with Mark Bates, organized the Single Molecule Localization Symposium 2023, which was hosted at IMP in Vienna.