The Niko Hildebrandt Lab team is a multidisciplinary research team in the Department of Engineering Physics focused on developing breakthrough biosensing and bioimaging methods.
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Developing sophisticated analytical tools to detect and quantify biological or chemical molecules at the nanoscale.
Innovating in-vitro, in-situ and in-vivo analysis techniques using Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) for rapid, simple, and inexpensive biosensing.
Translating developed methods into practical devices and applications for clinical, biological, food, and environmental laboratories.
Biosensing technologies like Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) enable scientists to analyze complex biological interactions at the nanoscale, explains Hildebrandt, who joins McMaster from Université de Rouen Normandie in France and is one of the world’s leading scientists in FRET.
Developing luminescent tools for bioimaging and biomedical diagnostics. That’s the goal for Dr. Lucie Haye, postdoctoral fellow in McMaster’s Department of Engineering Physics.
President Emeritus David Farrar interviews Dr. Niko Hildebrandt about his research and decision to come to McMaster as a Canada Excellence Research Chair.
Research areas of interest: Thin film optodes as a sensing platform, solid state physics, computational physics, materials characterization and nanofabrication, thin film deposition, optics and electro-optical devices
Hobbies: Cooking, rescuing computers, electronics and scientific equipment, board games.
Research areas of interest: Plasmonic nanostructure as a substrate for the study of photo-physics, DNA scaffolds, polymer chemistry, analytical chemistry, biomedical devices, nano fabrication and characterization, bacteria detection, DNA amplification techniques.
Hobbies: Painting, Taekwondo, rugby and horseback riding, board games and mentoring members of the McMaster Women in Science and Engineering society.
McMaster University
Faculty of Engineering
1280 Main St West
Burke Science Building
Room B104
Hamilton, Ontario Canada
L8S 4L7
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