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

la Cadena, A. D., 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. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3650148

Aksamitiene, E., Park, J., Marjanovic, M., & Boppart, S. A. (2025). Defining Biological Variability, Analytical Precision and Quantitative Biophysiochemical Characterization of Human Urinary Extracellular Vesicles. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 14(5), Article e70087. https://doi.org/10.1002/jev2.70087

De la Cadena, A., Park, J., Shi, J., & Boppart, S. A. (2025). On the importance of simultaneous label-free multimodal nonlinear optical imaging for biomedical applications. APL Photonics, 10(11), Article 110902. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0289864

De La Cadena, A., Renteria, C. A., Aksamitiene, E., & Boppart, S. A. (2025). Label-free hyperspectral multiphoton microscopy. Optics Letters, 50(5), 1484-1487. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.547032

Georgakoudi, I., Skala, M. C., Quinn, K. P., Stringari, C., Sorrells, J. E., Heikal, A. A., Li, L. Z., Xu, H. N., You, S., Walsh, A. J., Datta, R., Samimi, K., Gillette, A. A., Eliceiri, K. W., Balu, M., Boppart, S. A., Digman, M. A., Dunning, K. R., Evans, C. L., ... Zemp, R. (2025). Consensus guidelines for cellular label-free optical metabolic imaging: ensuring accuracy and reproducibility in metabolic profiling. Journal of biomedical optics, 30, Article S23901. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.30.S2.S23901

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