Suliana Manley

In 2019, Manley was awarded the Medal for Innovation in Light Microscopy by Royal Microscopical Society. In 2020, she was elected as an APS (American Physical Society) fellow.

In 2009, she became an assistant professor of physics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and was promoted to associate professor in 2016 and to full professor in 2022. She is the founding director of the Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics.

Manley studied physics and mathematics at Rice University where she received a Bachelor’s degree (cum laude) in 1997. She joined Harvard University and in 2004 graduated with a PhD in physics under the supervision of Dave A. Weitz. She then went to work as a postdoctoral researcher on lipid bilayer and red blood cell membrane dynamics with Alice P. Gast at MIT. In 2006, she joined the cell biology laboratory of Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz at the National Institutes of Health as post-doctoral fellow. Here she developed an optical method (sptPALM) enabling the study of the dynamics of large ensembles of single proteins in membranes and inside cells.

Suliana Manley (born 1975) is an American biophysicist. Her research focuses on the development of high-resolution optical instruments, and their application in studying the organization and dynamics of proteins. She is a professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and heads the Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics.