| Birth Date: | 5 July 1969 |
| Birth Place: | Mid Canterbury, New Zealand |
| Richard Neutze | |
| Education: | University of Canterbury |
| Thesis Title: | Acceleration and optical interferometry |
| Thesis Url: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6569 |
| Thesis Year: | 1995 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Geoff Stedman William Moreau |
| Academic Advisors: | Janos Hajdu |
| Workplaces: | Uppsala University Gothenburg University |
Richard Neutze (born 5 July 1969) is a biophysicist from New Zealand, now a Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology at Gothenburg University in Gothenburg, Sweden.[1] He has made fundamental contributions to X-ray crystallography of biomolecules, including proposal of the idea of diffract before destroy along with Janos Hajdu and others,[2] which in part led to the invention of serial femtosecond crystallography.[3]
Neutze graduated with a BSc in physics in 1991 and PhD in biophysics in 1995 from University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where his supervisor was Geoff Stedman.[4] Afterwards, he conducted postdoctoral research at University of Oxford, University of Tübingen, and Uppsala University.[5]
Neutze received the Young Scientist Award at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in 2000,[6] and the Hugo Theorell Prize from the Swedish Biophysics Society in 2012.[7]