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José Luis Toca-Herrera

Portrait José Luis Toca-Herrera

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

ORCID: 0000-0001-8951-2616
ResearcherId : AAX-7366-2021

My Courses

Quality EducationSustainable Cities and CommunitiesGood Health and Well-BeingClean Water and Sanitation
classifications according to Statistics Austria:
BiomathematicsExperimental physicsPhysical chemistry BiophysicsNanotechnologyBiomechanics

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

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

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