Meytal Landau

Meytal Landau is a Lead Scientist at the CSSB Centre for Structural Systems Biology at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and a W3 Professor at Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany, and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She obtained her PhD in biochemistry from Tel Aviv University and conducted postdoctoral research at UCLA with Prof. David Eisenberg, focusing on structural studies of amyloid fibrils. Her research focuses on the structural biology of functional amyloids, particularly antimicrobial and virulence-associated peptides. She currently leads the ERC Consolidator project FuncAmyloid, aiming to define the structure, function, and regulation of these amyloids at high resolution. Her lab uncovered novel amyloid architectures, including cross-α fibrils, and demonstrated how structural plasticity might enable functional switching. Prof. Landau has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, cited >4,000 times, and has been invited to present her work at ~60 international conferences. She holds patents and has received >20 awards and honors, including the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award (Biophysical Society), the Krill Prize of the Wolf Foundation, and the Helmholtz Distinguished Professorship.