Richard Neutze

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Richard Neutze (born 5 July 1969) is a New Zealand biophysicist and a professor of biochemistry at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He helps study how biological molecules form structures using X-ray crystallography and co‑proposed the idea of “diffract before destroy” with Janos Hajdu, which helped lead to serial femtosecond crystallography—a method that uses ultra-fast X-ray pulses to study tiny crystals before they are damaged. Neutze earned a BSc in physics in 1991 and a PhD in biophysics in 1995 from the University of Canterbury, where he worked with Geoff Stedman. He did postdoctoral research at Oxford, Tübingen, and Uppsala. He won the Young Scientist Award at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in 2000 and the Hugo Theorell Prize from the Swedish Biophysics Society in 2012.