Dr. Doreen Matthies is an Earl Stadtman tenure-track investigator and the Head of the Unit on Structural Biology in the Division of Basic and Translational Biophysics, NICHD. She obtained her diploma in Molecular Biology (2008) and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry (2014) from the University of Frankfurt in Germany while performing her research work in the group of Thomas Meier at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics in the Department of Structural Biology lead by Werner Kühlbrandt. She joined the group of Sriram Subramaniam in the laboratory of cell biology at NCI, NIH for her postdoctoral work (2013-2018). She spent two years with the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus before starting her own lab within NICHD at the end of 2020.