Gabriel Gomila Lluch

University Full professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-1949-1757

Knowledge area: Tecnologia Electrònica

Research group: Nanobioengineering and Bioelectrònics (SIC-BIO)

Contact Information
Department of Electronic and Biomedical Engineering
Departament d'Electrònica, Marti i Franquès,1
934020206
gabriel.gomila(a)ub.edu

My profile

I have a degree in Physical Sciences (1993) and a PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona (1997). My doctoral dissertation focused on the theoretical modeling of electron transport at semiconductor interfaces, and earned an Extraordinary Doctoral Award (1997). Subsequently, for three years, I was a postdoctoral researcher at three universities in Italy, France and Spain, where I specialized in the theoretical modeling of electronic devices at the nanoscale. In 2001 I moved to the Department of Electronics of the University of Barcelona thanks to a Ramón y Cajal contract, where I expanded my research areas towards the fusion of the fields of Biology and Electronics, focusing in microsystems for biological applications on a chip and in Atomic Force Microscopy for the study of the electrical properties of biological samples. In 2005 I became an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics at the University of Barcelona, and in 2017 I was promoted to Full Professor. In addition, since 2007 I have been head of the Nanoscale Bioelectric Characterization research group at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), recognized in 2015 and 2020 as Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence. In 2008 I received a grant to intensify the research activity of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2009-2011) and in 2014 the ICREA Foundation awarded me the ICREA Academy Award (2015-2019). From 2001 to the present I have combined research activities with teaching at the University of Barcelona in undergraduate / degree and Master / doctoral courses (mainly in the Degree in Biomedical Engineering, and in the Masters of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and Master of Biomedical Engineering). I have directed 10 Doctoral theses and 10 Master's theses. I have published a total of 95 research articles in indexed journals that have received a total of over 2500 citations. I have been Principal Investigator in 5 research projects of the European Commission (in 1 of them as coordinator) and in 6 national research projects (in 1 of them as coordinator) and I have been a member of Groups of Consolidated Research since 2005 - info

More Information: Nanobioelec Group (http://www.ibecbarcelona.eu/nanobioelec)

Academic training

Ciències Físiques . Universitat de Barcelona . 15/09/1993 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Ciències Físiques . Universitat de Barcelona . 20/11/1997 . (Ph.D.)

Teaching imparted

Bioelectricitat i Bioelectromagnetisme (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Biomédica(1) - Universidad de Barcelona.

Caracterització i Manipulació a la Nanoescala (University Master's Degree) - Nanociencia y Nanotecnología - Universidad de Barcelona.

Nanomedicina (University Master's Degree) - Innovació i Emprenedoria en Enginyeria Biomèdica - Universidad de Barcelona.

Research interests

Nanobiotecnologia

Nanoscale bioelectrical characterization

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Helena Lozano Caballero . (2020) . Estudio eléctrico y topográfico de apéndices bacterianos en la nanoescala (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.

Marti Checa Nualart . (2020) . Una nova tècnica de microscòpia de forces atòmiques per a l'estudi de les propietats nanoelèctriques de les cèl·lules (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.

Martina di Muzio . (2021) . Nanoscale dielectric mapping of biomembranes with in-liquid Scanning Dielectric Microscopy (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona. Publicació online (http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671821)

Harishankar Balakishan . (2021) . Nanoscale Tomography Based in Electrostatic Force Microscopy (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona. Publicació online (http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671789)

Participation in projects

Scanning probe microscopies for nanoscale fast, tomographic and composition . 2017 - 2020 . Ref.721874 . Unió Europea . PI: Gabriel Gomila Lluch

Biosensing with ORGanic ElectronicS . 2019 - 2022 . Ref.813863 . Unió Europea . PI: Gabriel Gomila Lluch

Microscopio de barrido de fuerzas eléctricas para medidas electrofisiológicas a la nanoescala . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.TEC2016-79156-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Gabriel Gomila Lluch

Volumetric Scanning Microwave Microscopy Analytical and Research Tool for Nanotechnology . 2012 - 2015 . Ref.280516 . Unió Europea . PI: Gabriel Gomila Lluch

Métodos de datos masivos aplicados a la Microscopía de Sonda de Barrido para estudios eléctricos funcionales en ciencias de la vida . 2020 - 2022 . Ref.PID2019-110210GB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Gabriel Gomila Lluch

Protein-based next generation electronics . 2022 - 2026 . Ref.HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFIND . Comisión Europea . PI: Gabriel Gomila Lluch

Journal Publications

Checa, Marti; Millan-Solsona, Ruben; Mares, Adrianna Glinkowska; Pujals, Silvia; Gomila, Gabriel (2021). Fast Label-Free Nanoscale Composition Mapping of Eukaryotic Cells Via Scanning Dielectric Force Volume Microscopy and Machine Learning. Small Methods, 5(7), p. 2100279 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2366-9608

Boschker, Henricus T. S.; Cook, Perran L. M.; Polerecky, Lubos; Eachambadi, Raghavendran Thiruvallur; Lozano, Helena; Hidalgo-Martinez, Silvia; Khalenkow, Dmitry; Spampinato, Valentina; Claes, Nathalie; Kundu, Paromita; Wang, Da; Bals, Sara; Sand, Karina K.; Cavezza, Francesca; Hauffman, Tom; Bjerg, Jesper Tataru; Skirtach, Andre G.; Kochan, Kamila; McKee, Merrilyn; Wood, Bayden; Bedolla, Diana; Gianoncelli, Alessandra; Geerlings, Nicole M. J.; Van Gerven, Nani; Remaut, Han; Geelhoed, Jeanine S.; Millan-Solsona, Ruben; Fumagalli, Laura; Nielsen, Lars Peter; Franquet, Alexis; Manca, Jean V.; Gomila, Gabriel; Meysman, Filip J. R. (2021). Efficient long-range conduction in cable bacteria through nickel protein wires. Nature Communications, 12(1) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2041-1723

Kyndiah, Adrica; Checa, Marti; Leonardi, Francesca; Millan-Solsona, Ruben; Di Muzio, Martina; Tanwar, Shubham; Fumagalli, Laura; Mas-Torrent, Marta; Gomila, Gabriel (2020). Nanoscale Mapping of the Conductivity and Interfacial Capacitance of an Electrolyte-Gated Organic Field-Effect Transistor under Operation. Advanced Functional Materials, 31(5) . https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202008032 . ISSN: 1616-301X

Kyndiah, Adrica; Leonardi, Francesca; Tarantino, Carolina; Cramer, Tobias; Millan-Solsona, Ruben; Garreta, Elena; Montserrat, Nuria; Mas-Torrent, Marta; Gomila, Gabriel (2020). Bioelectronic Recordings of Cardiomyocytes with Accumulation Mode Electrolyte Gated Organic Field Effect Transistors. Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 150 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2019.111844 . ISSN: 0956-5663

Fumagalli, L.; Esfandiar, A.; Fabregas, R.; Hu, S.; Ares, P.; Janardanan, A.; Yang, Q.; Radha, B.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; Gomila, G.; Novoselov, K. S.; Geim, A. K. (2018). Anomalously low dielectric constant of confined water. Science, 360(6395), pp. 1339 - 1342 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0036-8075

Fumagalli, L.; Esteban Ferrer, D.; Cuervo, A.; Carrascosa, J.; Gomila, G. (2012). Label-free identification of single dielectric nanoparticles and viruses with ultraweak polarization forces. Nature Materials, 11, pp. 808 - 816 . ISSN: 1476-1122