Frank Vollmer
University of Exeter, UK
Sensing and Spectroscopy of Single Molecules on Optoplasmonic Microcavities
Optical microcavities show greatly enhanced sensitivity when modified with plasmonic nano particles, enabling the sensing of molecules and atomic ions in aqueous solutions. I will present most recent advances in Optoplasmonic single molecule sensing: detection of absorption cross section of molecules attached to plasmonic nano particles from a thermo-optical approach.
About Frank Vollmer
Frank Vollmer is Professor in Biophysics at the University of Exeter, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. in ‘Physics & Biology’ from the Rockefeller University in NYC, USA, in 2004. He was Rowland Fellow at Harvard University from 2004 to 2009, Scholar-in-Residence at the Wyss Institute at Harvard in 2010, Group Leader (untenured Associate Professor) at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany from 2011–2016 and Instructor in Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School where he directed a satellite laboratory from 2011– 2016. Since 2016 he is Professor in Biophysics at the School of Physics, University of Exeter, UK. He received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2017 and in 2021 the Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics (IoP). Since 2021 he is Fellow of the IoP.
