Dr. Dana Cialla-May
Dr. Dana Cialla-May received her PhD degree in Physical Chemistry from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 2010. She is currently a group leader at Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) Jena, Germany (currently 5 PhD students and 2 Master students under lab supervision).
The main domain of research of Dr. Dana Cialla-May includes the fabrication, characterisation and biomedical application of plasmonic substrates in surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Silver and gold nanostructures are fabricated by bottom-up chemical techniques as well as lithographic approaches and a modification of the SERS substrates is applied to improve the selectivity. The application scenarios performed span from biomedical research to environmental analysis, e.g. the detection of drug molecules in pharmaceutical formulations and human body fluids, biomarker detection in patient samples, identification of signalling molecules in microbial communication as well as detection of water pollutants in waste water.
She published more than 125 peer-reviewed publications (>7,000 citations, H index 38).