Dr Cuong Cao
RESEARCH FOCUS
Dr Cuong Cao is a Lecturer in Advanced Micro- and Nano-Diagnostics. His research has been dedicated to bringing together elements from micro- and nanofabrication, applied physics, analytical chemistry, and biology which is truly multidisciplinary in nature. His original research articles have been mostly published in leading, high impact journals such as Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Small, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Water Research, Lab on a Chip, etc.
Dr Cao research focuses on three main research topics exploiting cutting-edge micro- and nano-technologies to address these global challenges:
- Synthesis and fabrication of optically-active materials using both top-down and bottom-up approaches to provide high quality plasmonic nanomaterials for biosensing.
- Development of nanoplasmonics-based biosensing platforms, including but not limited to SPR, LSPR, SERS, and particle-based detections.
- Development of point-of-care analyses: we aim to incorporate and transfer molecular diagnostic techniques and nanoplasmonic transducers on to compact lab-on-a-chip formats.
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Open to PhD applications from those with at least a 2.1 degree (or equivalent) in the biological/veterinary/medical sciences and interested in infectious disease, parasitology, functional genomics and the exploitation and development of new ‘omics’ technologies for drug discovery/disease control.
Research Students
PhD title: Peroxidase-mimicking nanomaterials for mercury detection in water samples
Name: Natasha Logan
Years of Study: 2016-2019
Country: UK
PhD title: Plasmonic foodsmartphone assay for food spoilage microorganisms
Name: Javier Lou Franco
Years of Study: 2017-2020
Country: Spain
PhD title: A development of sensor-based diagnostics for animal health applications (co-supervising with Dr Mark Mooney)
Name: Michaela Crummy
Years of Study: 2016-2019
Country: UK
PhD title: Development and evaluation of a paper-based microfluidic device to detect and differentiate Mycobacterium tuberculosis (co-supervising with Dr Linda Stewart)
Name: Brendan Gilbride
Years of Study: 2018-2020
Country: UK
Alumni: where are they now?
Dr Clare McVey
Current position: - Queen’s University of Belfast
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