Anat Akiva

Radboudumc University Medical Center, NL
Anat Akiva is an assistant professor (since 2019) in matrix calcification and the coordinator of the Electron Microscopy Center at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

After completing her PhD in Israel (2016), at the Weizmann Institute of Science on studying mechanisms of bone formation, she moved to the Netherlands where she worked in Eindhoven University of Technology on building a bone organoid. In her research Anat combines a variety of spectroscopic and microscopic techniques to understand the organic-inorganic interfaces that control mineralization in biology.

Her current research focus lies on the understanding of the mechanisms of pathological calcification and bone related diseases.