Chemical and structural imaging with nano resolution under ambient conditions are of utmost importance for advancing our understanding of biological processes at the sub-cellular level, which is needed for achieving a thorough understanding of severe diseases such as cancers, neurodegenerative or autoimmune disorders. These perspectives motived over the past decades a consistent body of work...
In the year 2000, the HEP community decided to adopt the recent concept of computing grid for the computing of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (LHC). It took a decade of intense work to turn the Grid vision to reality. It was also a successful decision, as the worldwide LHC computing...
The project can be defined as a multidisciplinary effort towards finding the optimal scientific links between the synthesis of the carbon-quantum dots/graphene hybrids and their applications in broad band photodetection. Specifically, it will address the current need to develop flexible carbon-based photodetector (PD) with detection window broader than Si-based photodetectors (sensitivity ranging from UV to...
Metrology of laser beams with high power has a number of challenges related to beam sampling technique, sensitivity control for the measurement device and achievable dynamic range. Main Objectives: development of an inexpensive, compact device for measurement of laser beam profile (LBP) and beam pointing stability (BPS) measurement device for pulsed and continuous high power...
Disease biomarkers in blood are important diagnostic indicators and are currently analysed in specialised laboratories by expensive and time-consuming procedures (assay duration spanning several hours). These procedures are unsuitable for rapid detection of biomarkers in point of need settings, as a response to life threatening situations where early detection of blood biomarkers is vital, such...
A critical requirement for understanding and diagnosing severe pathologies, such as cancers, neurodegenerative or cardiovascular diseases, consists in achieving an exact understanding of fundamental structures and processes in cells and tissues at optical resolutions beyond the diffraction barrier. Fluorescence based techniques for Super-Resolution Microscopy (SRM) have generated huge impact in many fields of science but...
