1 “AOȘR-TEAMS-III” Project Edition 2024-2025 – “DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN SCIENCE” awarded by competition by the Academy of Romanian Scientists.
Title: Hybrid plasmonic sensor empowered by artificial neural network for the non-invasive detection of cortisol in simulated biological fluids (Acronym SensStress)
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Period: April 2024 - December 2025
Objectives: The project focuses on the development of a hybrid plasmonic sensor assisted by an artificial neural network for the non-invasive Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance detection of cortisol levels in biological fluids with high accuracy.
Budget: ⁓ 10.000 Euro
1 Institutional UBB Starting Research Grant (SRG-UBB) awarded by competition by the Babeș-Bolyai University.
Title: Plasmonic Nanoplatforms: Efficient Heat Generators for Thermoplasmonic Detection (Acronym ThermoPlasDet)
Contract number: SRG-UBB no. 32984/23.06.2023
Period: July 2023 - June 2024
Objectives: The ambitious scope of the project is to provide a better understanding on the thermoplasmonic mechanism leading to efficient detection by evaluating the performances of the plasmonic nanoplatforms as thermoplasmonic generators.
Budget: ⁓ 9.000 Euro
1 International Research Open Access Project - Nanobiotechnology Laboratory awarded by competition by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC).
Title: Surface Analysis of Hybrid Plasmonic Sensor for Enhanced Surface Plasmon Resonance Detection (Acronym SPRSens)
Project number: 2022-1-RD-NanoBiotech-SPRSens
Period: August 2023 – July 2024
Objectives: The project has the ambitious goal to develop a versatile flexible plasmonic chip for the non-invasive real-time Surface Plasmon Resonance glucose detection. The main objective is the development and characterization of a new innovative sensor design based on a micro-rough PDMS substrate coated with a gold thin film and gold nanobipyramids for the SPR glucose sensing.
1 National Post-Doctoral Research Project (PD) awarded by competition by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI).
Title: Flexible plasmonic chip for non-invasive real-time glucose monitoring (Acronym Chip4GluDet)
Project code: PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2021-0175
Contract number: PD 92/19.04.2022
Period: April 2022 - March 2024
Objectives: The main objective of this project is to develop a flexible plasmonic biosensing chip for the non-invasive monitoring of glucose by the implementation of two analysis techniques, specifically SERS and electrochemical methods. With Chip4GluDet, we overcome the limitations of the currently available glucose monitoring devices by designing a new sensing platform with enhanced dual detection capabilities.
Budget: ⁓ 50.000 Euro
Project Webpage: Chip4GluDet
1 National Mobility Research Grant (MC) awarded by competition by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI).
Project number: PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2017-3573
Objective: Attendance to the Microscopy Course organized by PicoQuant - Specialization Course
STAR-UBB Postdoctoral Advanced Fellowships awarded by competition by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology – STAR-UBB Institute, Babeș-Bolyai University.
Title: Flexible Plasmonic PDMS-based Sensor for SPR Detection Empowered by SERS Molecular Identification of the Formalin Contaminant
Period: March - June 2023
Objective: The projects’ main objective is to design a sensor design relying on the combination of the advantages of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), such as flexibility, optical transparency and chemical inertness, and gold thin films – to support plasmons for SPR, for FA monitoring by means of portable plasmon-based detection technologies.