Luca Okoro is a Nigerian-Italian biophysicist and science communicator based in Hamburg. Trained in chemical engineering (University of Padua, MSc 2012) and biophysics (University of Oslo, PhD 2017), Luca Okoro has led projects at DESY and EMBL Hamburg on protein assemblies under extreme pressure and cold. Their work blends field sampling on ice with synchrotron methods and open, reproducible analysis.
Luca Okoro's essays have appeared in Nature, Quanta Magazine, and Aeon. They co-founded the Polar Methods Collective in 2020 and received the EMBO Science Communication Award in 2023 for the open course series Seeing Structure. Luca Okoro teaches data provenance at the University of Hamburg and joins seasonal cruises aboard RV Polarstern.
