Events
Sensing to seeing: an electrochemical approach
| Date: | Wednesday 5 March 2025 16:45 - 20:00 |
| Location: | Peston LT |
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You are warmly invited to Professor Steffi Krause’s inaugural lecture. The event will start at 4:45pm on Wednesday the 5th of March 2025 and will be held in the Peston lecture theatre in the Graduate Centre (Building 18 on this map). Very grateful if you could please register here indicating whether you will be joining the event in person or online.
About the event:
Sensing to seeing: an electrochemical approach
From measuring pollutants to diagnosing diseases using the marvel of sensors
Sensors have revolutionised the way we monitor our environment. Due to their simplicity and low cost, electrochemical sensors in particular have had a lasting impact on how we measure pollutants and diagnose disease. In this lecture, I will take you on a personal journey from the development of sensors for a single analyte to the imaging of electrical and electrochemical cues from living cells.
Traditionally, electrochemical sensing of multiple analytes such as disease markers or measuring the responses of individual cells in culture have relied on arrays of electrodes. Generating electrochemical currents with focused light, we can sense at any spot of an unstructured substrate without the need to fabricate arrays of electrodes. The work of my group has transformed this photoelectrochemical technology from a tool for the interrogation of sensor arrays to a high-resolution imaging technique that allows us to explore a range of exciting applications in biomedical engineering and green energy.
About Professor Krause:
Professor Steffi Krause gained her PhD in 1994 at the Humboldt-University of Berlin working on the development and characterisation of a field-effect oxygen sensor. Her postdoctoral research at the Universities of Newcastle and Glasgow focused on the development of new electrochemical biosensor principles. She worked as a Lecturer and later EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at the Chemistry Department of Sheffield University from 1997 to 2004 and then moved to Queen Mary University of London where she leads the Electrochemical Sensors Group and established the research area of high-resolution photoelectrochemical imaging.
Event schedule:
4:45 – 5:00 Guest arrival
5:00 – 5:45 Lecture
5:45 – 6:00 Q&A
6:00 – 7:30 Drinks reception
For guests joining online via MS Teams, please use this link: Join the meeting now (Meeting ID: 379 279 356 847, Passcode: BQ9zN3tF)
| Contact: | Helen Green |
| People: | Steffi KRAUSE |