We warmly invite you to join us and our special guest speaker Dr. Raúl Rica Alarcón from the Nanoparticles Trapping Laboratory, University of Granada, Spain, for this webinar on Optical Tweezers.

The Nobel Prize winning Optical Tweezers (OT) technique enables the non-invasive, nanometer-precise trapping and manipulation of cells, molecules and nanoparticles.

Bruker’s pioneering NanoTracker 2 optical tweezers platform provides cutting-edge capabilities and unparalleled versatility, enabling multiplexed trapping, live cell experiments, and seamless integration with advanced optical microscopy techniques.

Prof. Rica’s work focuses on the development of novel methods to control and manipulate matter at the nanoscale. In his talk, he will speak about the dynamics of systems trapped in optical tweezers and the complex behavior of matter in microscopic environments beyond equilibrium conditions.

The webinar will include a demonstration LIVE from our labs in Berlin, showcasing the capabilities of the NanoTracker 2 system.


Special Guest Speaker

Dr. Raúl Rica Alarcón
Nanoparticles Trapping Laboratory
Dpt. of Applied Physics, University of Granada, Spain

Dr. Raúl Rica Alarcón obtained his PhD in 2011 at the University of Granada (UGR), working on colloid science. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) on renewable energy, at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (Spain) on optical tweezers, photonics, and stochastic thermodynamics, and at UGR on ion trapping and atomic physics. Since 2017, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at UGR, where he leads the Nanoparticles Trapping Laboratory (NanoTLab) to advance micromanipulation capabilities for exploring complex situations in microscopic systems driven out of equilibrium.