Álvaro Fernández GalianaPhD
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Álvaro Fernández Galiana PhD
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Millard and Lee Alexander Fellow (Christ Church)
Research Affiliate (Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
COLLEGE: Christ Church
LOCATION: Keble Triangle
Biography
Research
Dr Álvaro Fernández Galiana is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Microscopy and the Millard and Lee Alexander Fellow at Christ Church. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2022, where he conducted research at the LIGO Laboratory.
Following his doctorate, Dr Fernández Galiana was awarded the Schmidt Science Fellowship, enabling him to pivot his research towards spectroscopy-based biosensing.
He subsequently joined the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London (Stevens Group), before moving to Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science, where he is now part of the Dynamic Optics and Photonics Group. He also maintains a Research Affiliation with the BioInstrumentation Laboratory at MIT.
Dr Fernández Galiana’s research lies at the intersection of engineering, physics, and applied machine learning. His current work focuses on two main areas:
- Microscopy for ultrafast laser manufacturing metrology,
- Spectroscopy-based biosensing and computational spectral analysis.
Research Interests
Álvaro works at the intersection of engineering, physics, and applied machine learning, developing computationally-enhanced instrumentation with applications to a range of research applications, including biosensing, gravitational-wave detection, quantum optics, spectroscopy, and microscopy.
Areas of particular interest are:
- Computational microscopy
- Spectroscopy biosensing
- Ultrafast laser manufacturing
- Clinical spectroscopy
- Raman and FTIR spectroscopy
- Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
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