Nanophotonics Driven Optical Biosensors, Bioimaging and Spectroscopy
Hosted By: Applied Spectroscopy Technical Group
24 June 2022 10:00 - 11:00
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC -05:00)Emerging healthcare needs and initiatives, including global health care, personalized medicine, and point-of-care applications are demanding breakthrough advancements in diagnostic tools. Biosensors play an essential role in bioanalytics, but traditional methods are limited in precision, affordability, integration, or portability. Furthermore, they require long detection times, sophisticated infrastructure, and trained personnel. Our research group addresses these challenges by developing next-generation optical biosensors, spectroscopy, and bioimaging technologies with nanophotonics, nanofabrication, microfluidics, surface chemistry, and data science. For high sensitivity, we exploit nanoplasmonic and dielectric metasurfaces that can provide increased light-matter interaction in targeted spectral ranges including visible, near-infrared, and mid-infrared. We develop nanofabrication methods for high-throughput and low-cost manufacturing of nanophotonic structures and integrate them with microfluidics for automated sample handling. We leverage data science tools with hyperspectral imaging and spectroscopy to achieve high device performance. In this webinar, Prof. Altug will present some of our recent effort in these directions.
About the Presenter: Hatice Altug, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Prof. Hatice Altug earned her BS in Physics from Bilkent University, Turkey, in2000. In 2007, she received her PhD in Applied Physics at Stanford University, USA. She then completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Between 2007 and 2013, she was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. Since 2013, she is a full professor at the Institute of Bioengineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. She has been recognized with many awards and honors, including the Optica Adolph Lomb Medal in 2012 “for breakthrough contributions on integrated optical nano-biosensor and nanospectroscopy technologies based on nanoplasmonics, nanofluidics, and novel nanofabrication.” She is an elected fellow of Optica.
