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José Luis Toca-Herrera

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Univ.Prof. Dr. José Luis Toca-Herrera
Institute of Biophysics
Location Muthgasse 11, 1190 Wien
Email jose.toca-herrera@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-80311

ORCID: 0000-0001-8951-2616, opens in new window.
ResearcherId : AAX-7366-2021

My Courses

Quality EducationSustainable Cities and CommunitiesGood Health and Well-BeingClean Water and Sanitation

Research Focus

Colloidal and molecular interactions; Mechanical properties of biological materials at the micro- and nanoscale; Cell-substrate and cell-cell interactions; Self-assembly interfacial phenomena; Mathematical and physical models applied to life sciences, social sciences and education

free keywords spectroscopy surface analytical techniques soft matter physical Chemistry colloids and interfaces applied physics mechanical properties of biological materials Scanning probe microscopy biophysics

 

Career

  • 2023 - 2023 Visiting professor. AGH - University of Science and Technology (Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science). Krakow. Poland.
  • 2022 Deputy Head of Department of Bionanosciences (BOKU)
  • 2020 - 2020 Visiting professor. AGH - University of Science and Technology (Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science). Krakow. Poland.
  • 2016 - 2021 Head of Department of Nanobiotechnology (BOKU).
  • 2015 - 2015 Visiting professor. AGH - University of Science and Technology (Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science). Krakow, Poland.
  • 2012 Head of Institute for Biophysics (Department of Nanobiotechnology, BOKU).
  • 2011 - 2015 Deputy Director of the Department of Nanobiotechnology (BOKU).
  • 2011 Teaching coordinator (Department of Nanobiotechnology, BOKU).
  • 2010 Full Professor of Biophysics. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU). Austria.
  • 2009 - 2010 Visiting professor. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
  • 2008 - 2008 Visiting scientist. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU). Austria.
  • 2008 - 2010 I3 research professor. Group Leader (Biosurfaces Unit). Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CICBiomaGUNE). San Sebastián, Spain.
  • 2007 - 2009 Lecturer. University of the Basque Country. Bilbao, Spain.
  • 2007 - 2008 Group Leader (Biosurfaces Unit). Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CICBiomaGUNE). San Sebastián, Spain.
  • 2006 - 2006 Visiting professor. Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Golm, Germany.
  • 2005 - 2005 Visiting scientist. Max-Planck Institute for Polymer research. Mainz, Germany.
  • 2005 - 2006 Director (Bioengineering and Bioelectrochemistry Group). Rovira i Virgili University. Tarragona, Spain.
  • 2004 - 2006 Ramón y Cajal research professor. University Rovira i Virgili. Tarragona, Spain.
  • 2002 - 2004 Postdoctoral researcher (Marie Curie Fellow - RTN). BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. Vienna, Austria.
  • 2001 - 2002 Postdoctoral research associate (Wellcome Trust Grant). University of Cambridge. England.
  • 2000 PhD in Physical Chemistry. Potsdam University. Germany.
  • 1999 - 2000 Postdoctoral research assistant. Technical University-Berlin. Germany.
  • 1996 - 1999 PhD student. Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Prof. H. Möhwald). Golm, Germany.
  • 1994 - 1995 Visiting researcher (Comett grant). Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research. Mainz, Germany.
  • 1994 Supervisor of Radioactive Installations. Polytechnic University of Valencia. Spain.
  • 1993 Licenciado in Physics. University of Valencia. Spain.

Awards

  • Year: 2023 Awards: Visiting professorship. AGH University of Science and Technology. Krakow. Poland.
  • Year: 2021 Awards: Cover picture of the journal Microscopy Research and Technique (2021, Vol. 84)
  • Year: 2020 Awards: Cover picture of the journal Toxins (2020, Vol. 12)
  • Year: 2020 Awards: Visiting professorship. AGH University of Science and Technology. Krakow. Poland.
  • Year: 2018 Awards: Cover picture of the journal Microscopy Research and Techniques (2018, Vol. 81)
  • Year: 2015 Awards: Visiting professorship (in the frame of the Marian Smoluchowski Kraków Research Consortium "Matter-Energy–Future"). AGH University of Science and Technology. Krakow. Poland.
  • Year: 2012 Awards: Cover picture of the journal Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics (2012, Vol. 522)
  • Year: 2012 Awards: First prize for Best Poster at 6th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas (Stockholm, Sweden)
  • Year: 2011 Awards: Cover picture of the Biotechnology Journal (2011, Vol. 6)
  • Year: 2010 Awards: Best Poster Award of the Erwin Schrödinger Society. BioNanoMed-2010 (Krems, Austria)
  • Year: 2010 Awards: Frontispiece cover of the journal Small (2010, Vol. 6)
  • Year: 2008 Awards: I3 award for excellence research trajectory (Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology)
  • Year: 2008 Awards: First prize for Best Poster at 22nd European Colloid and Interface Society conference (Krakow, Poland)
  • Year: 2006 Awards: Active researcher. Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain)
  • Year: 2005 Awards: Active researcher. Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain)
  • Year: 2005 Awards: Cover picture of the journal Small (2005, Vol. 1)
  • Year: 2005 Awards: Research Mobility grant from the Catalan Government (Spain)
  • Year: 2004 Awards: Marie Curie Reintegration grant
  • Year: 2004 Awards: Ramón y Cajal grant (Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology)
  • Year: 2002 Awards: Marie Curie (RTN) grant
  • Year: 2001 Awards: Wellcome Trust grant
  • Year: 1996 Awards: Max-Planck-Institut Promotionsstipendium
  • Year: 1994 Awards: Comett grant

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