The primary goal of the Biophotonics and Optofluidics group is to monitor, characterize, identify and describe microorganisms and the process inside of such objects. The main activities of our research group can be divided to several sections:
Understanding life has huge implications on our development and wellbeing. The outstanding complexity of living organisms brings questions we can’t answer, because there are strong limitations of available technologies giving sufficiently detailed insight through scattering tissues. Amongst other activities we develop a new class of endoscopes that can break through this barrier. This technology can potentially go as far as reaching super-resolution with instruments having a footprint comparable to the dimensions of a single cell.
Johanna Trägårdh is the leader of the workpackage focused on label-free imaging with chemical contrast. Her research is focused on instrument and method development for imaging and spectroscopy applications. Specifically, for studying light matter interaction at the nanoscale and bio-imaging.