Renate Radek

Renate Radek is a protistologist and an associate professor at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Education Radek received a Diploma in biology from the University of Bonn in 1985. She received her PhD in 1987 at the University of Bonn's Institute of Cytology, supervised by . and an external reviewer for Acta Protozoologica since 2005, and a member of the board of reviewers at the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology since 2012. and is also a member of the Berlin Microscopical Society, the German Society for Parasitology, the International Society of Protistologists, and the Society for Invertebrate Pathology. One of these textbooks, Protistology,

Her current focus is on the biology and morphology of protists that live as symbionts and parasites in diverse insect hosts, notably termite gut flagellates and spore-forming protists (some of which, like the nephridiophagids, are now thought to be fungi) in cockroaches and beetles. She is also interested in the relationship between protists and their prokaryotic symbionts.