Photonics

• Biophotonics - Development of advanced low to medium density biochips capable of providing quantitative disease profiling information prior to clinical symptoms, to support diagnosis and for prognosis.
• Creation of new optical labels and light sources for biomedical and single molecule applications.
• Fabrication of new optical sensors and assays for biological and medical applications.
• Synthesis of novel photosensitive and photoresponsive materials and their application.
• Transient laser spectroscopy of electronically excited states.

Life Sciences and Health

• Exploitation of novel antibody, protein and DNA markers to investigate basic biological interactions at the molecular level.
• Development of highly sensitive detection approaches for the exploration of protein-protein interactions.
• Advanced understanding of selected cellular and disease mechanisms

Nanotechnology and Microsystems

• In-situ visualization of biomembrane activity.
• Nanometer dimensioned electrodes and fibre optics.
• Self-assembling molecular and polymer materials.
• Biomaterials as linkers for self-assembling molecular electronics, security applications and multiplexed sensing.
• Nanophase biolithography.
• Polymer Microfabrication