Stefan Walter Hell is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, both of which are in Germany. Wikipedia
Place of birth: Arad, Romania
Spouse: Anna-Kathrin Hell
Education: Heidelberg University and University of Turku
Notable students: Ilaria Testa and Gražvydas Lukinavičius
Research interests: Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy