In particular my research involves:
- nano and micro machines
- optofluidics
- microcavities and small forces
News & Events
OptoFluidiX 2025: International Conference on Advances in Optofluidics to Take Place in Leipzig
The international scientific community is invited to attend OptoFluidiX 2025, a conference dedicated to recent advances and future directions in the interdisciplinary field of optofluidics. The event will be held from September 16–18, 2025, at at Leipz... (Link)
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Talk of Falko Schmidt at Biophotonics Congress
Falko Schmidt is presenting a novel optofluidic platform for the precise manipulation of local fluid flows and particle movement at the Biophotonics Congress within the Optical Manipulation and its Applications Conference in Coronado, USA. Title of Ta...
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Falko Schmidt voted chair of the BT Technical Group at OPTICA
We’re excited to share that Falko Schmidt has been elected as the new Chair of the Optical Trapping and Manipulation in Molecular and Cellular Biology Technical Group within Optica. His three-year term will span from 2025 to 2027, during which he will ... (Link)
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Research Projects
Light-induced micro and nano machines
Optical tweezers are used to induce rotational motion of nanoparticles and microparticles effectively creating miniaturised versions of macroscopic engines.
Under light illumination a suspension of binary colloids self-assembles into active hierarchical superstructures providing insights into the formation process of biological systems.
3D Optofluidics and Thermal Imaging
The local heating of fluids with light leads to complex pattern of flows that can be steered and measured with light using optofluidics and thermometry.
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Publications
Non–steady state thermometry with optical diffraction tomography
Adarsh B Vasista, Bernard Ciraulo, Falko Schmidt, Jaime Ortega Arroyo, Romain Quidant
Science Advances, vol. 10(12), 2024, pp. eadk5440
3D Optofluidic Control Using Reconfigurable Thermal Barriers
Falko Schmidt, Carlos David Gonzalez-Gomez, Emilio Ruiz-Reina, Raul A. Rica, Jaime Ortega Arroyo, Romain Quidant
arXiv, arXiv.2410.15708, 2024
Nanoalignment by Critical Casimir Torques
Gan Wang, Piotr Nowakowski, Nima Farahmand Bafi, Benjamin Midtvedt, Falko Schmidt, Ruggero Verre, Mikael Käll, S. Dietrich, Svyatoslav Kondrat, Giovanni Volpe
Nature Communications, vol. 15(5086), 2024
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About Me:
He has over 9 years of experience in building holographic optical setups for experiments on the optical manipulation of micro- and nanosystems. He is the author of 7 scientific peer-reviewed articles published in renowned journals (e.g. Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, ACS Photonics). He is also the co-founder of Lucero AB, a spin-off from research at the University of Gothenburg developing automated manipulation solutions for single cells in drug screening purposes.