Speaker: 

Prof. Daniel Jaque, Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 

Tittle: Biomedical Applications of Luminescent Nanothermometers: Present and Future

Time: 14:00 May 20th, 2025 (Tuesday)

Venue: Conference Room 6, Building No.5

Host: Prof. Xinfeng Liu

Abstract:

A luminescent nanothermometer is a nanoparticle whose luminescence results strongly temperature dependent. These nanomaterials allow remote thermal sensing.If the nanothermometers operate in the infrared (the so-called biological windows) are capable of remote thermal sensing in cells, tissues, organs and animals. Remote reading of the temperature of living organisms has been used for understanding their vital functions, to control treatments and to diagnosis diseases. But the use of nanothermometers for thermal sensing in biological systems is not free from artefacts and uncertainties that could make the thermal reading useless. To avoid them, new nanomaterials and technologies must be developed and combined. In this talk examples of these new approaches leading to reliable and precise thermal sensing in biological media will be described to demonstrate the actual potential of nanothermometry in biomedicine.

Info:

Prof. Daniel Jaque is a physicist specialized in nanomaterials and bioimaging. He leads the nanoBIG group at UAM, pioneering luminescence sensing. He has coordinated major European projects (COST, Marie Curie, FET-OPEN) and delivered invited talks at international conferences. He has held academic leadership roles as Vice-Rector for Scientific Policy at UAM and supervised numerous PhD theses. Prof. Jaque has also been an invited professor in the UK, Brazil, China, and Australia, fostering global collaborations in physics and nanotechnology.