PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Antony Lee

Also known as A. Lee, Antony Ann-Tzer Lee

Antony Lee is a physicist whose research develops quantitative methods for super-resolution microscopy and single-particle tracking. During his Berkeley PhD, he studied RNA-polymerase transcription with optical tweezers; during a Bordeaux postdoc, he used near-infrared carbon nanotubes to probe extracellular matrix in brain and liver tissue. In 2020 he coauthored a method combining nanotube tracking and super-resolution analysis to explore the live brain’s extracellular space, and in 2024 he coauthored a study of early liver-fibrosis detection. As of October 2026, he is a permanent researcher at Institut Curie studying minimal actomyosin systems, and a 2026 preprint with his group examines myosin-X’s role in sorting actin filaments.

Now at
Institut Curie
Works
69
Citations
64,208
h-index
22
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. By 2020

    Super-resolution microscopy

    During his Berkeley PhD, he develops fluorescent tags and quantitative methods for super-resolution microscopy, and studies transcription by single RNA polymerases with optical tweezers. In Laurent Cognet’s Bordeaux group, he uses near-infrared carbon nanotubes to probe extracellular-matrix topography and rheology in brain and liver tissue. By 2020, he coauthors a Methods paper combining single-carbon-nanotube tracking with super-resolution image analysis to explore extracellular space in the live brain.

  2. 2022

    A CNRS role at Curie

    By 2022, he is a CNRS researcher at the Curie Institute in Paris.

  3. 2024

    Early liver-fibrosis imaging

    In 2024, he coauthors a Nano Letters study that uses fluorescent single-walled carbon nanotubes to identify early-stage liver fibrosis through changes in interstitial-space diffusion.

  4. November 2025

    A multiscale biology course

    He speaks at Institut Curie’s Multiscale Integration in Biological Systems course in November 2025.

  5. As of October 2026

    Permanent researcher at Curie

    He is a permanent researcher in Institut Curie’s Physics of Cells and Cancer unit and works on the spontaneous emergence of oscillations in minimal actomyosin systems. A 2026 preprint with his group reports that myosin-X sorts actin filaments into parallel bundles.

Career

  1. Since 2024Institut CuriePermanent Researcher
  2. 2024–2026Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
  3. 2024–2026Sorbonne University
  4. 2020–2025Institut d’Optique Graduate School
  5. 2019–2026CNRSResearcher
  6. 2019–2025Université de Bordeaux
  7. 2019–2025Institut de Physique

Education

  1. University of California, BerkeleyPhD

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python2020 · Nature Methods · 38,057 citationsWith Eric Wieser and Johannes L. Schönberger
  2. The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package2018 · The Astronomical Journal · 8,125 citations
  3. The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package2022 · 5,037 citationsWith Zac Hatfield-Dodds
  4. Counting single photoactivatable fluorescent molecules by photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM)2012 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 380 citations
  5. Synucleinopathy alters nanoscale organization and diffusion in the brain extracellular space through hyaluronan remodeling2020 · Nature Communications · 118 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of California, Berkeley. Our estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.
  2. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes University of California, Berkeley. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  3. The median h-index is 54 at universities and 20 at frontier AI labsIncludes University of California, Berkeley. The median h-index is 54 at universities and 20 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, citations and moves to estimate how universities and frontier labs contribute to AI research.
  4. 44% of AI career moves go from one university to anotherIncludes University of California, Berkeley. We estimate how 12,774 AI career moves link universities, companies, labs and government research centers, with net flows and the most common paths.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. ANTONY LEE - Institut Curie institut-curie.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. CV HAL - Antony Lee cv.hal.science. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. People - COGNET Research cognet-research.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. Multiscale integration in Biological Systems | Institut Curie Advanced Training training.institut-curie.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. Myosin-X sorts actin filaments into parallel bundles and tunes barbed-end dynamics | Sciety sciety.org. Checked 18 October 2026.