Scientific director of Leibniz-IPHT, head of the Department of Spectroscopy/Imaging with 50 employees (8 post-docs + 30 PhDs + 6 adm.). Professor and chair of Institute of Physical Chemistry at Jena University.

Workgroup leader in the field of Raman and infrared spectroscopy and imaging for biomedical applications. Teaching courses in physical chemistry at University Jena. Beside 13 PhD students, he supervised also 10 master students

Head of the Leibniz-IPHT Microfluidics group. Research is focused on the transfer of laboratory processes to the microfluidics platform in order to make the benefits of miniaturization available to the research and industrial community. Teaching Courses in Microfluidics and Digital Image Analysis (Guest Lectures at regional Universities). Supervision of 5 PhD Thesis works (3 graduated, 2 in preparation) finished) and Master and BA Thesis works

Head of work group for Multimodal Instrumentation, focusing on the development of novel optical instruments for in vivo and in vitro diagnostics. By creating devices and instruments that combine different optical modalities, such as Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence microscopy, optical coherence tomography, fluorescence life-time microscopy, etc. it is possible to asses a large set of complimentary information that can be used to study a variety of samples.

Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science. The research has its focus on urban water technology with an experiment-based approach where studies are conducted in the laboratory, in pilot scale setups and in the field. The knowledge obtained from laboratory and pilot scale is combined and applied in computer models that are subsequently validated on results from field studies.

Research within environmental process engineering with focus on obtaining fundamental knowledge trough experimental studies in the laboratory, pilot scale investigations and in the field. Substantial experience with a range of state-of-the-art sophisticated chemical analytical instruments. These include among others inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy, GC and HPLC mass spectrometry, micro Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, construction and use of electrochemical microelectrodes, etc.

Prof. Gary Hardiman joined Queen’s University Belfast in 2018 as the Chair in Food Systems Biology. His laboratory works in the field of systems biology. Current research studies the effects of microplastics on marine and human health; prostate cancer in the context of racial differences and nutritional deficiency; the impacts of long-term space travel on hepatic and intestinal biology; genetic and epigenetics of opioid abuse; non-coding RNAs in cancer and metabolic diseases and developing toolkits for of Omics data sets into genotype-phenotype predictions. He has collaborated with NASA GeneLab, The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) on the Deepwater Horizon incident, the Lipid Maps Consortium, and is funded by the US National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Institute of Health (NIH).

Dr Meneely research experience is in the areas of rapid detection of food and feed contamination and the measurement of toxicity of small molecular weight compounds present in food and environmental samples. She has pioneered the use of High Content Analysis to measure the toxicity of complex mixtures of natural toxins. She also has a great deal of experience in the organisation of international scientific workshops.

Dr Cuong Cao’s research interest is in the field of plasmonic nanoparticles and nanostructures and their implementations in biosensor development. His research has contributed to the understanding of plasmonic nanomaterials, bringing attention of the bioanalytical community to their promising prospects for bioanalytical applications, i.e. disease detection, food safety and food integrity that present significant challenges to public health.