Mario Montes Usategui

Associate professor

Scopus Author ID: 6602535428

Knowledge area: Òptica

Research group:

Grup de Recerca en Enginyeria de Fronts d'Ona/Wavefront Engineering Research Group
Optical Trapping Lab - Grup de Biofotònica (BiOPT)

Grup d'Innovació Docent en Òptica Física i Fotònica

Contact Information
Department of Applied Physics
Departament de Física Aplicada. Facultat de Física. Planta 5. Martí i Franquès 1
93 4021202
mario_montes(a)ub.edu

Academic training

Llicenciat en Ciencies Físiques . Facultat de Física. Universitat de Barcelona . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Doctor en Ciencies Físiques . Facultat de Física. Universitat de Barcelona . (Ph.D.)

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Frederic Català Castro . (2018) . Implementation of the direct force measurement method in optical tweezers (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.

Dorian Treptow . (2021) . Holographic light shaping through acousto-optic deflectors (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona. https://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/671825?locale-attribute=es

Raúl Bola Sampol . (2021) . Development of optical tools for biological applications based on acousto-optic technology (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona. http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/179443

Participation in projects

SCREAM: Super-fast Confocal Microscopy through Efficient Acusto-optic Modulation (LLAVOR) . 2017 - 2018 . Ref.2016 LLAV 00022 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Mario Montes Usategui

Super-Fast and Flexible Digital Confocal Microscope F2I-FVal_2018_009 . 2018 - 2019 . Fundació Bosch i Gimpera de la Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Mario Montes Usategui

COSMIC: Confocal Super-resolution Microscopy for Cellomics CI19-00033 (CAIXAIMPULSE) . 2019 - 2021 . Ref.CI19-00033 . Fundació Caixa de Pensions 'La Caixa' . PI: Mario Montes Usategui

Super-resolution Confocal Microscopy Enhanced by Deep Learning (SCORED) . 2019 - 2020 . Unió Europea . PI: Mario Montes Usategui

Journal Publications

Carnicer, A.; Montes-Usategui, M.; Arcos, S.; Juvells, I. (2005). Vulnerability to chosen-cyphertext attacks of optical encryption schemes based on double randon phase keys. Optics Letters, 30(13), pp. 1644 - 1646 . ISSN: 0146-9592

Farré, A.; Montes-Usategui, M. (2010). A force detection technique for single-beam optical traps based on direct measurement of light momentum changes. Optics Express, 18, pp. 11955 - 11968 . ISSN: 1094-4087

Mas, J.; Farré, A.; López-Quesada, C.; Martín-Badosa, E.; Montes-Usategui, M. (2011). Measuring stall forces in vivo with optical tweezers through light momentum changes. Proceedings of SPIE, 8097, pp. 809726-1 - 809726-10 . ISSN: 0277-786X

Farré, A.; Marsà, F. ; Montes-Usategui, M. (2012). Optimized back-focal-plane interferometry directly measures forces of optically trapped particles. Optics Express, 20(11), pp. 12270 - 12291 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1094-4087

Bola, R.; Treptow, D.; Marzoa, A.; Montes-Usategui, M; Martín-Badosa, E. (2020). Acousto-holographic optical tweezers. Optics Letters . ISSN: 0146-9592

Treptow, D.; Bola, R.; Martín-Badosa, E.; Montes-Usategui, M. (2021). Artifact-free holographic light shaping through moving acousto-optic holograms. Scientific Reports, 11, pp. 1 - 13 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322

Patents, Software and Database

Method and apparatus for measuring optical forces acting on a particle (SPAIN, 2009)

Method and apparatus for measuring optical forces acting on a particle (UNITED STATES, 2012)

Creación de la empresa derivada Impetux Optics S.L. (SPAIN, 2012)

Programmable multiple-point illuminator, confocal filter, confocal microscope and method to operate said confocal microscope (European Patent Convention Countries, 02/07/2018)