Roberto Ortiz Email & Phone Number

Lund, Sweden

Responsibilities:- Expertise within surface chemistry and surface techniques: surface adsorption, modification and characterisation. Main technical expertise within ellipsometry, QCM-D, SPR, AFM, SEM and electrochemical methods.- Development of academic network: supervision of students, seminars and finding opportunities to link academia with industry..

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

• Responsibilities
• Design immobilizations methods for different proteins and study them with surface characterization techniques.
• Planning, designing, performing and evaluating the experiments. Mainly on the field of bioelectrochemistry, surface modification and characterization, enzyme analysis and nanomaterials.
• Communicate my results in form of peer-reviewed publications and oral and poster presentations at international conferences.

Lund, Sweden

• Responsibilities
• Design carbohydrate bioanodes for biofuel cell applications for the FP7 EU project “3D-nanobiodevice” and in charge of fulfilling the deliverables, reports and problems on time for the EU-project that financed my.
• Planning, designing, performing and evaluating the experiments. Mainly on the field of bioelectrochemistry, surface modification and characterization, enzyme analysis and nanomaterials.
• Communicate my results in form of peer-reviewed publications and oral and poster presentations at international conferences.
• Teach basic Analytical Chemistry for undergraduate students and Advanced Electroanalytical Chemistry for both undergraduated and PhD students.
• Supervision fully of 3 master students and partially to another 4 master students and introduction to the laboratory for the many visiting scientist at our laboratory. Achievements

Lund, Sweden

• Responsibilities
• Planning, designing, performing and evaluating the experiments regarding capacitive and amperometric biosensors for meat tenderness and estradiol in milk using FIA methods.
• Communicate my results in form of peer-reviewed publications and oral and poster presentations at international conferences.
• Write reports and communicate with co-workers, supervisor and project coordinator about the results obtained.
• Supervise partially 2 master students.Achievements
• Flow injection biosensor for meat and milk analysis with potentiometric and amperometric techniques using antibodies or enzymes.

Lund, Sweden

• Responsibilities
• Planning, designing, performing and evaluating experiments regarding SAMs formation on gold electrodes and characterization with electrochemical techniques.
• Analysis of catecholamines using different electrochemical techniques and electrode materials.
• Collection of experimental data for an educational ‘dry lab’ on electrochemistry (http://www.drylabs.com/labs/) and help the programmers with the theory on the ‘dry-lab’.Achievements
• I obtained deep knowledge on electrochemistry and SAMs formation.
• I developed methods for detection of catecholamines on different material electrodes using electrochemical techniques.

Lund, Sweden

• Responsibilities
• Synthesis, separation and analysis of phosphines modified ruthenium organometallic clusters used as catalysts in organic enantioselective reactions.
• Report the results to the group leader.Achievements
• I obtained practical knowledge on organometallic synthesis, separation and analysis using NMR, IR and spectrophotometry.
• Resulted in one published peer-reviewed article.

Master In Science, Analytical Chemistry - Inorganic Chemistry

Biomedical Sciences, General

Key focuses: Introduction to the instrumentation and methods of analysis of different protein and hormones, microscopy, LX20, coagulation.

Exchange Student, Analytical Chemistry

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Analytical Chemistry

This thesis presents investigations for the improvement of electrical contact and catalytical properties of two fungal redox enzymes.