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SABINE SZUNERITS
Current Position. Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Antalya International University, Turkey. Education. B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (2007); and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA (2012). Nonscientific Interests. My wife and I once took ∼33 000 steps while sightseeing in Belgrade. My current research activities can be summarized as studies of phase-change materials for memory devices and tunable optical surfaces. For the memory devices research, I focus on crystallization studies at the device level. The tunable optical devices based on phase-change materials include color pixels and infrared absorption spectroscopy surfaces. (Read Bakan’s letter; DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00591).
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Current Position. Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Lille 1, France, attached to Institut d’Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie. Education. Masters in Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria (1994); Ph.D. in Electrochemistry, Queen Mary University of London (1994); M.A. in Social Science, The Open University in London (1998−2001); and Postdoctoral Fellow at École Nationale Supérieure Paris (1998−2000, Schrödinger Stipendium), Tufts University (2000−2001), École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux (2001−2002), and CEA Grenoble (2002−2004). Nonscientific Interests. Discovering new countries and cultures, classical musicin particular, opera, reading, and having fun with my kids. My research interests are in the area of material science with emphasis on the development of novel analytical platforms and interfaces for the study of affinity binding events as well as in the synthesis and modification of nanostructures (gold nanorods, diamond particles, magnetic particles, graphene, C-dots) for biomedical applications. I am particularly interested in fighting against bacterial and viral infections using particle-based photothermal and photodynamic concepts. (Read Szunerits’ article; DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00608).
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Current Position. Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy, in the Barillaro Research Group. Education. M.D. and Ph.D in Chemical Science, Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Florence, Italy. Nonscientific Interests. Running and swimming, collecting good movies, and traveling with my girlfriend. My mission in the Barillaro Research Group is to develop integrated nano- and microsystems for biophotonic and biosensing applications. My research focuses on design and preparation of optically responsive porous silicon-based nanostructures (e.g., interferometers and resonant cavities) integrated with biostructures for ultrasensitive and label-free detection of analytes of clinical and diagnostic interest. My recent research focused on a porous silicon-based, interferometric, label-free aptasensor able to specifically detect Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha (a protein biomarker of inflammation and sepsis) with a detection limit of 200 pM, exploiting Interferogram Average over Wavelength reflectance spectroscopya novel ultrasensitive technique recently developed in our group. (Read Mariani’s article; DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00634).
GOKHAN BAKAN
Received: December 5, 2016 Published: December 23, 2016
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© 2016 American Chemical Society
STEFANO MARIANI
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DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00783 ACS Sens. 2016, 1, 1381−1381
