Julia Mahamid is a cell biologist, structural biologist, and electron microscopist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, who utilizes biomolecular condensates and advanced cellular cryo-electron tomography to enhance the comprehension of the functional organization of the cytoplasm.
After that, she pursued her Master's degree in Chemistry from 2003 to 2005, at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, under the guidance of Lia Addadi in collaboration with Dan Caspi.
[3][4][5] Since 2017, Mahamid has been a group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany.
[6][7][8][9][10][11] Mahamid's research is based on the development of new methods for cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET), which is a technique for high-resolution 3D imaging of cellular machinery in its natural state.
Mahamid played a key role in the development of the cryo-focused ion beam (cryo-FIB) technique that facilitated the creation of "electron-transparent windows" in cells, enabling the observation of cellular structures and macromolecular complexes in their natural environment.