Funding

My research is or has been financed by:

Projects

Most of my research activities belong to one of the following projects:

Image by Samir Patel 2021

Nuclear Pore Mimics

Attempts to build a fully artificial nuclear pore complex capable of transporting biomolecules by a shuttle-cargo mechanism.

Protein Purification

Using polymer brushes for large-scale separation of biomolecules, which may lead to great cost reductions in production of biopharmaceuticals.

Molecular Trapping

New trapping methods using solid state nanoscale chambers for long-term observation of single (or a few) molecules by fluorescence microscopy techniques.

Image by Gustav Ferrand Drake del Castillo 2020

Image by Gustav Emilsson 2018

Image by Manuel Almagro Rivas 2016

Biocatalyis

Utilizing enzymes, nature's own nanomachines, enables chemical reactions for producing useful compounds or for sensors.

Image by Neuron Collective 2020

Electronic Paper

Electrochromic hybrid materials enable technologies for reflective displays in color, offering huge energy savings compared to conventional emissive displays.

Image by Norma Graf 2011

Plasmonic Biosensors

Development of new bioanalytical tools using optical resonances in metallic nanostructures and affinity-based detection.