Romain Quidant

Prof. Dr. Romain Quidant is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich. His research interests include nanophotonics, optofluidics, biosensing, lab-on-chip, optomechanics, microscale heat control, and reconfigurable optics. His work focuses on advancing technologies at the nanoscale and integrating optical and fluidic systems for various applications.

Romain Quidant is a researcher at ETH Zurich with expertise in plasmonics, nanooptics, biotechnology, optomechanics, and metasurfaces. His work explores the interaction of light with nanostructures to enable novel applications in sensing, trapping, and heating. Key research areas include quantum dot coupling with nanoantennas, thermo-plasmonics, and plasmon nano-optical tweezers. He investigates nanoscale optical heating, subkelvin cooling of trapped nanoparticles, and the use of plasmonic systems for intracellular temperature mapping. His research also extends to optofluidics and the manipulation of biological entities such as bacteria using resonant optical antennas. Quidant's contributions span both fundamental physics and applied technologies in nanophotonics.