Dr. Patrick Mesquida

Biography

Patrick Mesquida is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at King's College London. He obtained his degree in Physics (Dipl.-Phys.) from Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany in 1999 and was awarded a PhD in Nanotechnology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) in 2002. Following this, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) in Nanotechnology at the London Centre for Nanotechnology. In 2005, he joined King’s College London as a Lecturer in Materials Science and later transitioned to the Physics Department in 2010. He was a Visiting Professor at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien, Austria) from 2012 to 2018 and became a Senior Lecturer in the Physics Department at King’s. His research interests include Biophysics, Nanotechnology, Surfaces, Interfaces, and the development of scanning probe methods with a focus on nanomechanical and nanoelectrical properties. He explores techniques like Soft-Lithography and AC Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy to enable advanced charge mapping and mechanical analysis of biological materials.

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