Na Ji

Na Ji is an American biophysicist and the Luis Alvarez Memorial Chair in Experimental Physics at UC Berkeley, where her work focuses on optical microscopy techniques for in vivo imaging and biophotonics. She has a joint appointment as faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Early life and education Na Ji earned her Bachelor of Science in chemical physics at the University of Science & Technology of China in Hefei, China in 2000 before pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005. She then joined the Janelia Research Campus of Howard Hughes Medical Institute as a postdoctoral fellow, before starting her own group there in 2011, focused on developing new optical microscopy techniques for brain research.

Research and career Na Ji's research at Janelia Research Campus was dedicated to understanding the input-output relationships in neural circuits in the cerebral cortex, Her research has allowed researchers in her field to understand the brain more in depth than ever before.

Personal life Na Ji is married to Nobel prize laureate, Eric Betzig. With Betzig, she has three children, Max, Mia and Zoe.