Biography
Dr. Romana Schirhagl
Current research
Romana Schirhagl works in the area of diamond-based quantum sensing for biomedical applications. This technology has been developed in her group and they are to date still the only hospital world wide who has access to the technology. Their technology allows to measure free radical generation during stress responses in living cells with nanoscale resolution. This way, it is possible, for instance, to pinpoint the exact location where a drug is active or what happens during disease progression. Since her group is in the field of technology development, they are application agnostic and work with many different groups from chemistry, biology and physics.
Key publication:
Mzyk, A., Sigaeva, A. and Schirhagl, R., 2022. Relaxometry with nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. Accounts of chemical research, 55(24), pp.3572-3580.