Hamamatsu Frontiers: Quantum Sensing - Probing biological systems in a new light
- When:
- Thursday, March 24, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Where:
- Virtual
- Speaker:
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Peter Maurer,
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Prof. Peter Maurer’s research interests lay at the interface of quantum engineering and biophysics. His lab at the University of Chicago uses quantum technology to develop novel sensing modalities that allow us to probe physical properties of biological systems that are not accessible by conventional technologies. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, Peter received his postdoctoral training in Steven Chu’s lab at Stanford University where he developed nanoprobes for multicolor electron microscopy (M. Prigozhin, et al., Nature Nanotechnoloty 14, 420-425 (2019)). Peter completed his undergraduate education in physics from ETH Zurich and his graduate studies at Harvard University, where he worked in the group of Mikhail Lukin on quantum information processing and sensing with optically active diamond defects. Among others, Peter received the ‘Fulbright Science & Technology Award’, the ‘Harvard Merit Fellowship’, and the ‘Stanford Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Award’. - Description:
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Quantum optics has had a profound impact on precision measurements, and recently enabled probing various physical quantities, such as magnetic fields and temperature, with nanoscale spatial resolution. In my talk, I will discuss the development and application of novel quantum metrological technologies that enable the study of biological systems in a new regime. I will start with a general introduction to quantum sensing, with a focus on the measurement of magnetic fields at a nanoscale. I will then show how we utilize such sensing techniques to control the temperature profile in living systems with subcellular resolution. Finally, I will provide an outlook on how quantum sensing and single-molecule biophysics can be utilized to perform NMR spectroscopy with unprecedented sensitivity, possibly down to the level of individual biomolecules.
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