Maikel Rheinstadter is a professor of Biophysics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University. He received his PhD from Saarland University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Research Centre Jülich. He was a staff scientist at the Institut Laue-Langevin and an assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA before joining McMaster University in 2009. His research focuses on the field of membrane biophysics and the role of membranes in infectious and neurodegenerative diseases.
