Dr Joachim Frank is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. He has received many awards for his research, including, with David DeRosier, the Elizabeth Robert Cole Award of the Biophysics Society. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, written numerous book chapters and authored or edited five books, including Electron Crystallography of Biological Macromolecules, edited with Kenneth Downing, David DeRosier and Wah Chiu (2007) and Electron Tomography, 2nd edition (2010).