Lena Kourkoutis Cause of Death

American scientist, Lena Kourkoutis has been reported dead. According to sources, she died after a two-year battle with a colonic battle on Saturday, June 24, 2023. She was 44 years old.

Born in 1979, Lena Kourkoutis received her Diploma in Physics from the University of Rostock in Germany in 2003 and conducted her doctoral research at Cornell University, which she completed in 2009.

She then moved back to Germany as a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Martinsried between 2011 and 2012, before returning to Cornell University in 2013, first as a postdoctoral fellow, before joining the faculty.

Kourkoutis was nominated for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He worked in the field of electron microscopy, and professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the use of an aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope, providing atomic resolution, at cryogenic temperatures (>77K) to study physical processes such as superconductivity and biological structures such as proteins.