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This is a list of researchers in optofluidics, a research and technology area that combines microfluidics and optics and has applications in displays, biosensors, lab-on-chip devices, lenses, and molecular imaging and energy.
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This is a list of researchers in optofluidics, a research and technology area that combines microfluidics and optics and has applications in displays, biosensors, lab-on-chip devices, lenses, and molecular imaging and energy.
There are numerous research groups worldwide working on optofluidics, including those listed below.
| Country | University / Institute | Group | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
 Australia | University of Sydney | CUDOS (Eggleton) [1] | Photonic Crystals. |
 Austria | Johannes Kepler University Linz | Institute for Microelectronics and Microsensors (Jakoby) [2] | Fluidic sensors, Miniaturized IR sensor systems, microfluidic actuators. |
 Canada | University of Toronto | Sinton Group [3] | biosensors, energy. |
| Canada | University of Toronto | Biophotonics Group (Levy) [4] | Photonic crystals, sensors. |
| Canada | The University of British Columbia | MiNa Group [5] | Integrated optofluidics, sensors. |
| Canada | Queen's University | Escobedo Group [6] | Optical Diagnostics, Micro/Nano-devices. |
 Denmark | Danish Technical University | Kristensen Group [7] | Polymer optofluidics, lasers, single molecule analysis. |
 Israel | Hebrew University | NanoOpto Group (Levy) [8] | Optical Resonators, Plasmonics. |
 Iran | Sharif University of Technology | M.S. Saidi Group [9] | Optical Diagnostic Methods, Biofluids. |
 Japan | University of Tokyo | Goda Lab [10] | Imaging flow cytometry, single-cell analysis. |
 South Korea | Seoul National University | Biophotonics and Nano Engineering Lab (Kwon) [11] | Directed assembly, sensors, structural color. |
| South Korea | KAIST | Superlattice Nanomaterials Lab (Yang) [12] | Optofluidic materials, SERS sensors. |
 Germany | Technische Universität Berlin | Institute of Optics and Atomic Physics | Glass surface and volume structuring. |
| Germany | University of Bremen | IMSAS Sensors Institute (Vellekoop group) [13] | Optofluidic devices, sensors, microfluidics |
| Germany | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Biophotonic Sensors Group (Mappes) [14] | Sensors, fabrication and integration techniques. |
| Germany | University of Münster | Nonlinear Photonics Group (Denz) [15] | Optical tweezing and its integration into optofluidic setups, direct-laser-writing of optofluidic components |
 Switzerland | EPFL | Psaltis Group [16] | optofluidic switches, imaging, energy. |
 Singapore | Nanyang Technological University | A.Q. Liu Group [17] | Optofluidic waveguides, lab-on-a-chip devices. |
| Singapore | Nanyang Technological University | N.T. Nguyen Group [18] | Diagnostics, Transport. |
| (in Spanish) | ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences | Quidant group [19] | LSPR sensing, Plasmonic tweezers. |
 Taiwan | National Taiwan University | Bio-Optofluidic System Lab [20] | optical sensing for dynamic cellular phenotyping. |
| Taiwan | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University | Integrated Biomedical and Optofluidic Systems Lab [21] | optofluidic sensing, thermophoreis, SERS, LSPR. |
 Turkey | Koç University | Nano-Optics Research Lab. [22] | Droplet resonators, optofluidic waveguides, optical trapping and manipulation. |
 United Kingdom | University of St Andrews | Optical Manipulation Group [23] | Optofluidic sensing, trapping, Raman spectroscopy, cell sorting, photoporation |
| United Kingdom | University of St Andrews | Optical Manipulation Group [24] | Optofluidic sensing, trapping, Raman spectroscopy, cell sorting, photoporation |
| United Kingdom | University of Cambridge | Optofluidics Group (Euser Group) [25] | Optofluidics with hollow-core photonic crystal fibres. |
 United States | Purdue University | Steve Wereley Group [26] | Holographic optical tweezing, Optoelctrokinetic Patterning, Programmable Microfluidics, Micro-PIV. |
| United States | Cornell University | Erickson Group [27] | nanophotonic tweezing, optofluidic switches, biosensors, energy. |
| United States | UC Santa Cruz | Applied Optics Group [28] | Arrow waveguides, single molecule optofluidics. |
| United States | Brigham Young University | Hawkins Research Group [29] | Optofluidic waveguides, single molecule optical analysis. |
| United States | Caltech | Yang Biophotonics Group [30] | Optofluidic Microscopy, Imaging, OCT. |
| United States | UC San Diego | Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics Group (Fainman) [31] | Nanoscale lasers, optofluidic switches, silicon devices. |
| United States | University of Michigan | Sherman Fan Lab [32] | Optofluidic lasers, SERS, ring resonators. |
| United States | University of Maryland | White Research Group [33] | Medical diagnostics, SERS, circulating tumor cells. |
| United States | University of Chicago | The Scherer Group [34] | Optical trapping, active nanoscale plasmonic devices. |
| United States | Caltech | Nanofabrication Group (Scherer) [35] | Optofluidic Lasers, DNA detection, photonic crystals. |
| United States | Penn State | BioNEMS Laboratory (Huang) [36] | Optofluidic lenses, plasmonics. |
| United States | UC Berkeley | BioPOETS (Lee) [37] | Optofluidic transport, SERS, microfluidics. |
| United States | UC Berkeley | Berkeley Integrated Photonics Lab (Wu) [38] | Optoelectronic tweezers. |
| United States | UC San Diego | Lo Research Group [39] | Optofluidic flow cytometry. |
| United States | UIUC | Nano Sensors Group (Cunningham) [40] | Photonic Crystal Sensors, SERS. |
| United States | Harvard | Crozier Group [41] | Near Field Trapping, SERS |
| United States | Princeton University | Imaging Physics Group [42] | Microfluidic Tomography, [43] |
| United States | Iowa State University | Nicole Hashemi Group [46] | Optofluidics, microfluidics, biosensors, diagnostics and therapeutics, energy. |
| United States | Iowa State University | Attinger Group [47] | Optofluidic transport |
| United States | Boston University | LINBS (Altug) [48] | Plasmonics, nanohole sensors, high throughput diagnostics |
| United States | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Micro/nano sensors and actuators group [49] | Liquid tunable microlenses. |
 Belgium | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Brussels Photonics Team (B-PHOT) [50] | Polymer optofluidics, biosensors |
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Nader Engheta is an Iranian-American scientist. He has made pioneering contributions to the fields of metamaterials, transformation optics, plasmonic optics, nanophotonics, graphene photonics, nano-materials, nanoscale optics, nano-antennas and miniaturized antennas, physics and reverse-engineering of polarization vision in nature, bio-inspired optical imaging, fractional paradigm in electrodynamics, and electromagnetics and microwaves.
Satoshi Kawata is a scientist based in Japan who is active in nanotechnology, photonics, plasmonics, and other areas of applied physics. He is a Professor of Department of Applied Physics at Osaka University. He is also a Chief Scientist at RIKEN. Kawata was the 2022 president of Optica.
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Demetri Psaltis is a Greek-American electrical engineer who was the Dean of the School of Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne from 2007 to 2017. Since 2024 he is a professor emeritus at EPFL. He is one of the founders of the term and the field of optofluidics. He is also well known for his past work in holography, especially with regards to optical computing, holographic data storage, and neural networks. He is an author of over 1100 publications, contributed more than 20 book chapters, invented more than 50 patents, and currently has a h-index of 104.
Nikolay Zheludev is a British scientist specializing in nanophotonics, metamaterials, nanotechnology, electrodynamics, and nonlinear optics. Nikolay Zheludev is one of the founding members of the closely interlinked fields of metamaterials and nanophotonics that emerged at the dawn of the 21st century on the crossroads of optics and nanotechnology. Nikolay's work focus on developing new concepts in which nanoscale structuring of matter enhance and radically change its optical properties.
Lihong V. Wang is the Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering at California Institute of Technology and was formerly the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professorship of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Wang is known for his contributions to the field of Photoacoustic imaging technologies. Wang was elected as the member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2018.
Anatoly V. Zayats is a British experimental physicist of Ukrainian origin known for his work in nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials and applied nanotechnology. He is currently a Chair in Experimental Physics and the head of the Photonics & Nanotechnology Group at King's College London. He is a co-director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the London Institute for Advanced Light Technologies
Jelena Vučković is a Serbian-born American professor and a courtesy faculty member in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. She served as Fortinet Founders Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University from August 2021 through June 2023. Vučković leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics (NQP) Lab, and is a faculty member of the Ginzton Lab, PULSE Institute, SIMES Institute, and Bio-X at Stanford. She was the inaugural director of the Q-FARM initiative. She is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of The Optical Society, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Alexandra Boltasseva is Ron And Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, and editor-in-chief for The Optical Society's Optical Materials Express journal. Her research focuses on plasmonic metamaterials, manmade composites of metals that use surface plasmons to achieve optical properties not seen in nature.
Hatice Altug is a Turkish physicist and professor in the Bioengineering Department and head of the Bio-nanophotonic Systems laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland. Her research focuses on nanophotonics for biosensing and surface enhanced spectroscopy, integration with microfluidics and nanofabrication, to obtain high sensitivity, label-free characterization of biological material. She has developed low-cost biosensor allowing the identification of viruses such as Ebola that can work in difficult settings and therefore particularly useful in case of pandemics.
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Paras Nath Prasad is an Indian chemist. He is the SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo and holds a tenured faculty appointment in the department of Chemistry. In addition, he also holds non-tenured appointments in Physics, Medicine, and Electrical Engineering at the University at Buffalo and serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics.
Yu-Hwa Lo is a physicist, engineer, academic and researcher. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California at San Diego (UCSD).
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