Ewa Goldys

Biography

Professor Ewa M. Goldys holds a Personal Chair in the Department of Physics, Division of Information and Communication Sciences, Macquarie University. Her expertise spans the fields of biophotonics, optical characterisation, ultrasensitive detection of analytes, biosensing, bioimaging. materials synthesis and characterisation and cathodoluminescence. The present projects belong at the interface of materials science, photonics and biotechnology and she is drawing on her earlier achievements in materials science and ultrasensitive optical characterisation where she made major contributions. Her present projects belong to the cross-disciplinary area of Biophotonics. With the ARC support she has developed advanced methods of synthesis and characterisation of fluorescent nanoparticles for applications in fluorescence labelling. Her advanced expertise in ultrasensitive optical characterisation and nanotechnology leads to her novel approaches to biochemical and medical sensing and diagnostics, documented in numerous publications concerning self-organised growth and characterisation of nanostructures. Work in progress focuses on an innovative ultrasensitive surface plasmon resonance sensing system for the application in bioassays capable of sensing ultrasmall volumes, She demonstrated feasibility of the directional two-photon induced surface plasmon-coupled emission and demonstrated that surface plasmon sensing can be done using inexpensive plastic substrates. Her work concerned with metal nanoparticles led to the development of homogeneous silver-coated nanoparticles for their applications in fluorescence enhancement.

Research Interest

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