Seminar & Colloquium
[세미나: 7월 12일(화), 오후 4시] Prof. Paras N. Prasad, The State University of New York at Buffalo
Title
Convergent Research at the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics in Nanophotonics, Optoelectronics and Biophotonics
Speaker
Prof. Paras N. Prasad, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Medicine at The State University of New York at Buffalo
Biography
PRASAD, holds the unique multidisciplinary position of SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Medicine (four departments spanning three schools). He is the Samuel P. Capen Chair of Chemistry and the Executive Director of the multidisciplinary Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, which he founded in 1999. His pioneering contributions in interdisciplinary research at the interface of photonics, nanotechnology, and biomedicine have broadly impacted healthcare, energy, and optical technologies. Scientific American named him among the world’s top 50 science and technology leaders. He has authored 875 scientific papers; four field-defining monographs, widely used in teaching worldwide, in nonlinear optics, biophotonics, nanophotonics, and nanomedicine; eight edited books; and numerous patents. He introduced and advanced new frontiers of organic nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, biophotonics and nanomedicine. His Google Scholar h-Index is 132 , with ~78,000 citations . His many awards for research excellence include 2021 IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award ; IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology; the American Chemical Society Peter Debye Award , the Morley Medal and the Schoellkopf Medal; SPIE’s highest honor of Gold medal; Optical Society Michael Feld Biophotonics award; Western New York Health Care Industries Technology/Discovery Award; SUNY Excellence in the Pursuit of Knowledge award; UB’s first Innovation Impact award; UB President’s Medal; , Guggenheim Fellowship; Sloan Fellowship .He is an elected foreign fellow of the National Academy of Sciences , India and a fellow of the National Academy of inventors . He is a fellow of the APS, OSA, SPIE, and IEEE and was listed among Thompson Reuters “Highly Cited Researchers” for 2014 &2016. He has Honorary Doctorates from KTH in Sweden, the Aix-Marseille University in France, MEPhI in Russia, and the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. Globally, his technologies have produced nine 9 spin-off companies, including publicly-traded Nanobiotix, now in advanced clinical trials for cancer therapy.
| Date | Tuesday, July 12th, 2022
| Time | 16:00 ~ 17:00
| Venue | 33동 223호 (동부 세미나실)
[Abstract]
The research at our Institute links photonics and optoelectronics with materials science, nanotechnology, and biology for developing multiscale modeling guided new generation multifunctional hybrid materials to impact energy and health care1-3.
We are developing nanophotonics to understand interactions and dynamics at nanoscale in electronic materials, 2-D materials, metamaterials and quantum materials, targeting applications in energy and communication. We are simultaneously developing multiphoton upconversion and quantum cutting using hybrid organic-inorganic nanostructures and their nanocomposites for efficient harvesting of photons across the solar spectrum for solar energy conversion and other opto-electronic applications . Our work on dye-sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cells will be presented . In opto-electronic devices , our focus is at communication wavelengths in shortwave IR .
To advance biophotonics for healthcare, Ramanomics couples our proprietary biomolecular component analysis with localized, confocal quantitative Raman microspectrometry to monitor organelle-specific biomolecular concentrations as a function of cellular processes or drug-cell interactions in live single cells. Our integrated biophotonics platform combining Ramanomics with multiple nonlinear optical imaging modalities provides for real-time bimolecular cell diagnostics. We have applied these methods to advance neurophotonics to meet healthcare challenges in neurological, age-related Alzheimer disease, and traumatic brain injuries (TBI ).
An exciting direction pursued by us using multiphoton nanoparticles, is functional imaging of brain. Simultaneously, they can effect optogenetics for regioselective stimulation of neurons for providing an effective intervention/augmentation strategy to enhance the cognitive state and lead to a foundation for futuristic vision of super human capabilities.
1. P.N. Prasad “Introduction to Biophotonics”, John Wiley & Sons, New York (2003)
2. P.N. Prasad “Nanophotonics”, John Wiley & Sons, New York (2004)
3. P.N. Prasad “Introduction to Nanomedicine and Nanobioengineering”, John Wiley & Sons, New York (2012)
| Host | 박수영 교수(02-880-8327)