Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research: Neurophotonics, Optogenetics, Biophotonics, and Optical Imaging

Additional Campus Affiliations

W. W. Grainger Chair, Bioengineering
Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Affiliate, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Director, GSK Center for Optical Molecular Imaging, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Director, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute

Recent Publications

Butola, A., Ghosh, B., Park, J., Kwon, M., De la Cadena, A., Mukherjee, S. S., Bhargava, R., Boppart, S. A., & Agarwal, K. (2026). Label-free correlative morpho-chemical tomography of 3D kidney mesangial cells. Journal of biomedical optics, 31(3), Article 036501. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.31.3.036501

De laCadena, A., Aksamitiene, E., & Boppart, S. A. (Accepted/In press). Unified Vibrational and Multiphoton Label-Free Nonlinear Microscopy for Simultaneous Chemical and Structural Imaging. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 32(4), Article 7100612. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3650148

Kerschner, J. E., Daley, R. A., Link, R., Jones, R. M., Peterson, K. J., Chun, R. H., Flanary, V. A., Gorelik, M., Keppel, K. L., Maksimoski, M., Malloy, M., Martin, T. J., McCormick, M. E., Robey, T. C., Ansari, S., Matoska, G. M., Rupcich, C. A., Saunderson, M. L., Shay, S. G., ... Boppart, S. A. (2026). Clinical trial assessing the use of optical coherence tomography in decision making for children presenting with acute otitis media. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 202, Article 112728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijporl.2026.112728

Liu, N., Shiravi, S., Jin, T., Liu, J., Zhu, Z., Li, J., Cheung, I., Zhang, H., Wang, Y., Li, Q., Xu, Z., Zeng, L., Quezada, M. J., Villalobos, A., Samei, Y., Khanna, S., Bao, S., Wu, M., Liang, S., ... Rogers, J. A. (2026). Shape-conformal porous frameworks for full coverage of neural organoids and high-resolution electrophysiology. Nature biomedical engineering. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-026-01620-y

Sorrells, J. E., Yang, L., Iyer, R. R., Zaki, F. R., Markowicz, A. A., Monroy, G. L., Aksamitiene, E., Marjanovic, M., & Boppart, S. A. (2026). Real-time, high-resolution metabolic characterization of live bacteria using label-free optical metabolic imaging. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 12(1), Article 55. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-026-00920-0

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