Antonio Benayas
Dr Antonio Benayas is currently a tenure track-researcher at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM, Spain); he is also affiliated to “Ramón y Cajal” Health Research Institute. Dr Benayas´ research is mainly oriented to the development near infrared nanoprobes for biomedical applications, luminescence thermometry (recently, also manometry), and plasmonic nanoparticles acting as optically activated heaters.
Dr Benayas obtained his PhD in Physics of Light and Matter (UAM) by late 2012, upon several years of work on laser crystalline materials and optical waveguides. He then shifted his research interests to nanoscience, spending four years as postdoctoral fellow at Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Montreal, Canada); he got funded, among other agencies, by Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Breast Cancer Society of Canada. By early 2017, Dr Benayas was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) global fellowship by the European Commission, thus conducting a three-year project on lanthanide-based nanomaterials for imaging. He carried out those investigations between Stanford School of Medicine (USA) and the Materials Institute of University of Aveiro (Portugal). By 2020, Dr Benayas was back at his alma mater, (UAM), getting into the competitive Talent Attraction program implemented by the regional government of Madrid.
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