Professor Clemens Kaminski
- Sensor CDT co-director
- Professor of Chemical Physics
- Head of Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
- Head of Laser Analytics Group
- Director of CamBridgeSens
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Clemens Kaminski is Professor of Chemical Physics at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. He obtained his PhD at the University of Oxford, UK, in 1995, held a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellowship and Associate-Professorship at the Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden before his appointment at the University of Cambridge in 2001. He has pioneered the development of advanced imaging techniques for the study of chemical dynamics in technical and biological systems. He is recipient of the Cyril Hinshelwoold prize, Felix Weinberg prize, Philip Leverhulme prize, and the Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize. Today his group focuses solely on the development and application of of advanced microscopy techniques to unravel molecular mechanisms of disease. Kaminski is a Fellow of Optica, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Institute of Physics.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
We develop and apply advanced imaging techniques to follow biological processes in living systems with molecular scale resolution. We make use of so called superresolution methods that break the resolution limit imposed by diffraction, molecular biotechnology, and machine learning to study molecular mechanisms of disease. We collaborate widely with medics, biologists, physicists, and engineers to look at the essential processes of living things. We collaborate closely with the Molecular Neuroscience Group, also in this department.