
Santos Merino
PhD in Solid State Physics in 1997. Since
2001, he was Head of the Micro and Nanofabrication Unit in IK4-Tekniker and
since 2017 he is Head of the Sensors Research Area in the Surface Chemistry
and Nanotechnologies Unit. He has worked on different fields such as in-vitro diagnostic transduction
systems based on surface plasmon resonance and localized surface Plasmon
resonance, chronoamperometry detection or DNA manipulation in nanofluidic
biochips. He has worked on application of these technologies for its use in
clinica (DNA and proteins detection in blood) or agro-food use-cases
(identification of allergens, bacteria or pesticides) He has also studied the
interaction of cells and surfaces and its differentiation under physical and
biochemical cues. He is also involved
in educational activities giving lectures in the Nanoscience and
Nanotechnolgy master as well as in the Materials Science master leaded by the
Basque Country University. He is author of more than 50 papers and 5 patents
applications. He has leaded many research projects (industrial and oriented
fundamental research) and he has participated in FP5, FP6, FP7 and H2020
projects. He is the coordinator of the FP7 project NEURIMP (www.neurimp.eu-). He is participating in
Scientific Committees of the Spanish Network in Nanolithography (www.unizar.es/nanolito/) or prestigious
international workshops such as Micro and Nanoengineering (MNE). |