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O xoves 19 de xuño de 2025, Dr. Antonio Benayas (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM, Spain)) ofrecerá o seminario “Contactless, remote, non-invasive… sensing?...you tell me! Luminescence (nano)thermometry and manometry as well proven tools for biomedical proof-of-concept(s)" dentro do ciclo CINBIO Seminar Programme.
Será ás 11:00 horas na Sala de Seminarios de Torre CACTI.
ABSTRACT:
In the last couple of decades, luminescence thermometry (LT: how the optical emission features of a probe change as a function of its temperature) has experienced an enormous development, provoking widespread interest in particular for biomedical applications. This research area has been consistently delivering ways to monitor temperature changes in a highly varied gamut of systems -even in a quasi-real time manner.
Through this talk, milestones reached at nanoBIG unit (Autonomous University of Madrid, UAM) are described, together with the recent expansion of the foundational procedural to manometry, and finally providing a tentative and very preliminary hint into deepening the reach of LT into the “treacherous marshes” of heat transport at nanoscale.
The tone and narrative will be kept self-critical about the sometimes too-trumpeted prospectives of LT and the not-entirely-rigorous adjectivization that its capabilities have raised…notwithstanding the realistic potential of this thermometry approach to address technological and clinical challenges.
SHORT BIO:
Dr Antonio Benayas is currently a tenure track-researcher at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM, Spain); he is also affiliated to “Ramón y Cajal” Health Research Institute. Dr Benayas´ research is mainly oriented to near infrared nanoprobes for biomedical applications, luminescence thermometry (recently, also manometry), and plasmonic nanoparticles acting as optically activated heaters.
Dr Benayas obtained his PhD in Physics of Light and Matter (UAM) by late 2012, upon several years of work on laser crystalline materials and optical waveguides. He then shifted his research interests to nanoscience, spending four years as postdoctoral fellow at Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Montreal, Canada). He got funded, among other agencies, by Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Breast Cancer Society of Canada, carrying out different research projects about nanomaterials emitting within near-infrared, e.g. pioneer on shifting to such spectral range for luminescence thermometry; quantum dots for pre-clinical imaging. By early 2017, Dr Benayas was awarded a Global Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) fellowship by the European Commission, thus conducting a three-year project on lanthanide-based nanomaterials for imaging, and studies on heat conversion efficiency. He carried out those investigations between the Stanford School of Medicine (USA) and the Materials Institute of University of Aveiro (Portugal). By 2020, Dr Benayas was back at his alma mater, (UAM), supported through the competitive Talent Attraction program of the regional government of Madrid. During the last years, he has expanded his research into plasmonic nanoparticles as novel (further into) near-infrared triggered actuators.
