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LARYSA BARABAN
Current Position. Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Miami, FL. Education. Laurea in Chemistry (1992), University of Messina, Italy; Ph.D. in Chemistry (1996) and postdoctorate (1996−1997), University of Birmingham, UK; and postdoctorate (1997−1999), University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Nonscientific Interests. Motorcycling and skiing. My current research interests are directed to the identification of operating principles to activate fluorescence, under the influence of chemical and optical stimulations, with the ultimate goals of detecting cancer cells, imaging biological samples with spatial resolution at the nanometer level and monitoring dynamic processes in real time within living organisms. (Read Raymo’s article; DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b00262).
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Current Position. Research group leader, BioNanoSensorics, Institute for Materials Science, Max Bergmann Center for Biomaterials, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Education. M.Sc. (2005), Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine; Ph.D. in Physics (2008), University of Konstanz, Germany; and Postdoctoral researcher (2009− 2010), Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI), Paris, France, and Leibniz Institute (IFW), Dresden, Germany (2011). Nonscientific Interests. Reading and traveling. I am currently working in the interdisciplinary field of nanowire-based biosensors and multiphase microfluidics. I strongly believe that nanoscale devices and machines will become a crucial toolkit for future biomedical research, diagnostics, and therapeutic strategy. My research activities thus include aspects of materials science and nanoelectronics, e.g., miniaturized nanosensor devices integrated in microfluidic systems and novel artificially designed micromachines. My current work is related to the use of plasmonic nanoantennas as a sensor element for detection of DNA molecules (Read Baraban’s article; DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b00315).
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Current Position. Associate professor of Environmental Engineering, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, China; and Vice Director of Tianjin Engineering Center of Environmental Diagnosis and Contamination Remediation. Education. Environmental Engineering (2004), Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Master and Ph.D. (2010) in Environmental Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, supervised by Prof. Yujie Feng; and cocultured Ph.D (2008−2009) with Prof. Bruce Logan, Pennsylvania State University, PA. Nonscientific Interests. Ping pong, soccer, movies, and talking with my friends. The research projects in my group are mainly focused on microbial electrochemical processes and technologies, including (1) highly electroactive biofilm acclimation from the environment; (2) novel biosensors for environmental pollutions detection for early warning; and (3) enhanced interspecies electron transfer to accelerate pollutant removal and energy recovery (Read Wang’s article; DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b00401).
FRANÇ ISCO RAYMO
Received: July 6, 2018 Published: July 27, 2018
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XIN WANG
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Introducing Our Authors
SAMANTHA MCBIRNEY
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Current Position. Associate Engineer, RAND Corporation. Education. B.S. in Bioengineering (2012), University of California, Berkeley; M.S. in Biomedical Engineering (2013), University of Southern California; and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (2018), University of Southern California, CA. Nonscientific Interests. Running, baking, reading, travel, and rescue animals. My research interests throughout the course of my Ph.D. were two-pronged: one arm focused on studying blast-induced neurotrauma occurring in soldiers as the result of a blast, and the other arm focused on the design, building, and validation of a malaria diagnostic. Our team’s malaria diagnostic device uses magneto-optic technology to detect the presence of hemozoin, a magnetic nanoparticle byproduct formed by the parasite during its growth cycle (Read McBirney’s letter; DOI: 10.1021/ acssensors.8b00269).
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