The NanoTLab team

The Trappers at NanoTLab

Raúl A. Rica

Group leader

Miguel Ángel Fernández Rodríguez

Postdoctoral researcher

Researcher

Topic: non-equilibrium phenomena with multiple particles

Carlos David González Gómez

Postdoctoral researcher 

Topic: Electrothermal effects in hybrid Paul - optical traps. Active particles

Miguel Ibáñez

PhD student (FPU) 

Topic: anomalous thermalization at the microscale

Hirak Chatterjee

Postdoctoral researcher (Marie Curie Fellow)

Topic: SERS and optical tweezers

Pablo Ortega Flores

Research assistant

Topic: linear Paul trap

Ana Cazorla del Águila

PhD student (FPI

Topic: active particles

Our (theoretical) guides

Antonio Lasanta

Associate professor  

Expert in memory effects in microsystems

Associate professor  

Expert in large deviation theory and rare events.

Very close collaborators:

Alumni

Visiting professors.

Prof. Wei Sun (Yanshan University, China). 2022-2023.

Researchers.

Sergio Orozco. Research assistant. 2020-2021. Optical trapping, levitation.

Undergraduate and Master students.

Marta Guzmán Ferrer. Undergraduate student (TFG). 2022-2023. Levitation of microgels.

Jesús Díaz Burrueco. Master student. 2022-2023. SERS and optical tweezers.

Christian Muñoz. Undergraduate student (TFG). 2022-2023. Optical trapping of active particles. 

Rubén Vílchez Valenzuela. Undergraduate student (TFG). 2021-2022. Stochastic processes with an optically trapped particle. 

Alberto Angulo. Master student. 2020-2021. Electrokinetics of optically trapped nanoparticles.

Antonio Rubio.  Master student. 2020-2021. Trapping microgels.

Pedro Gea. Undergraduate student (TFG). 2019-2020. Levitation of microdroplets.

Sergio Aranda (from University of Málaga) Summer Fellow 2019. Levitation of microdroplets.

Raúl Fernández (from University of Sevilla) Summer Fellow 2019. Levitation of microdroplets.