Dr. Sabrina Simoncelli

Biography

Sabrina Simoncelli is an Associate Professor in Nanoscale Technology at University College London, where she leads her own research group. She joined the Department of Chemistry and the London Centre for Nanotechnology as a Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow in January 2020 after completing her PhD in Chemistry in 2014 at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. During her doctoral research, she focused on the interactions of metallic nanoparticles with photochemically active molecules, particularly photochromic compounds. Her PhD thesis was titled "Exploration of Interactions of Metallic Nanoparticles with Photochemically Active Molecules." She received an Emerging Leaders Americas Program (ELAP) fellowship, enabling her to conduct research at the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 2013. Following her PhD, Sabrina spent a year and a half as a post-doctoral researcher with Professor Feldmann at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, where she exploited the optical excitation of surface plasmons in metallic nanostructures to induce heat in biomolecules at the nanoscale. Sabrina has also had post-doctoral experiences at Imperial College London developing super-resolution fluorescence microscopy methods to study plasmons and charge-transfer reactions. In 2017, she moved to King's College London as a Human Frontier Science Program fellow to implement DNA-based imaging techniques for visualizing protein interactions within immune system cells.

Research Interests

Experience