ARBEN MERKOCI, PHD - Bioelectronics & Biosensors Group

CV of Prof.Dr. Arben Merkoçi 46-56
Extreme Environments) Workshop, “Priorities for environment specific technological developments
and infrastructures, Wednesday 3 to 5 December, 2008, Sant-Feliu de Guixols, Spain.
147 A.Merkoçi “Nanotechnology and Biosensors. Applications in health and environmental
studies”, Invited talk, Health Institute & Agriculture University, Tirana, Albania, 6.02.2009
148. G.Aragay, A.Puig, A.Merkoçi, “Electrochemical Flow Through System for Real-Time
Controlling of Environmental Pollution from Heavy Metals”, Poster, Pittcon Conference, March 8-
13, 2009, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
149. A.Merkoçi “Nanomaterials and applications in biosensors”, Invited talk at “Département de
Chimie Moléculaire, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble.
150. Arben Merkoci "Voltammetric screen-printed sensors for heavy metals and phenols.
Achievements and future prospects", Invited talk, Workshop on Environmental Risk Management
tools for water quality monitoring, Southampton (UK), 30th March 2009
151. Maria Guix, Melike Sahin, Briza Pérez, Adriano Ambrosi, Arben Merkoçi, “Design of a phenol
biosensor based on carbon nanotubes”, Poster, Workshop on Environmental Risk Management
tools for water quality monitoring, Southampton (UK), 30th March 2009
152. G.Aragay, A.Puig, R.Güell and A.Merkoçi, “Heavy metals detection using screen-printed
electrodes, Poster, Workshop on Environmental Risk Management tools for water quality
monitoring, Southampton (UK), 30th March 2009
153. P. Moscetta, L. Sanfilippo, G. Aragay, A.Puig, M. Cadevall, M.Medina, A. Merkoçi, “In-situ
voltammetric probe for heavy metal detection”, Poster, Workshop on Environmental Risk
Management tools for water quality monitoring, Southampton (UK), 30th March 2009
154. A.Merkoçi, “Nanomaterials for fast DNA, protein and cell analysis” ”Invited speaker at 11 th
International Conference on Advanced Materials, Symposium I: New Materials and Processes for
Sensing and Biosensing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 20-25, 2009
(http://www.icam2009.com/program/symposium_detail.php?code=I)
155. A.Merkoçi, “Nanobiosensing: synergy between nanotechnology methods, tools and materials
”, Invited Speaker at “Asia Pacific Conference on Chemistry Education &v 24th Philippine
Chemistry Congress (APC2E•24PC2): Chemistry for All: Safeguarding Man, Society and the
Environment”, 14–16 April 2009, Bohol Tropics Hotel, Tagbilaran City, Bohol Island, Philippines.
156. A.Merkoçi, Invited talk, (Bio)sensors based on nanomaterials. Applications in environmental
monitoring, May 7 th , 2009, Banyuls Observatory of the University of Paris 6, Banyuls, France
157. A.Merkoçi, “Using nanoparticles makes an easier sensing and biosensing”, Invited talk at
AsiaSense 2009, The 4 th International Conference on Sensors, Converging Technology for
Sensors application, Bangkok, Thailand, 29-31 July, 2009,
http://www.nstda.or.th/asiasense2009/Highlights%20Speakers.php
158. Marisa Maltez, A. de la Escosura-Muñiz, A. Ambrosi, B. Pérez-López, S. Marín, A. Merkoçi,
Oral presentation: “Nanomaterial based electrochemical transducing platforms for biomedical
applications” Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering World Congress 2009, Munich
(Germany) 7-12 September 2009.
159. A. de la Escosura-Muñiz, Marisa Maltez, C. Sánchez-Espinel, B. Dias-Freitas, A. Hernández-
Fernández, A. González-Fernández, A. Merkoçi Poster presentation: “Immunosensor to identify
tumor cells: a novel low cost and efficient devicebased on electrocatalytic effect induced by gold
nanoparticles conjugated to antibodies” II European Congress of Immunology, Berlin (Germany),
13-16 September 2009.