Dr. Andre J. Gesquiere is a Professor at University of Central Florida at the Department of Chemistry and the NanoScience Technology Center. His current research program is devoted to nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy, and modeling and simulations, both with focus on applications in biology and medicine, as well as to the design of nanoscale optoelectronic materials and devices for energy conversion. His laboratory has developed and extensively characterized conjugated polymer nanoparticles a next generation photodynamic (PDT) and chemodynamic (CDT) sensitizers. Gesquiere also leads the development of an IVIVE (In Vitro to In Vivo Extrapolation) computational software platform. His toolset uses different computational methods that are applied to mechanistic biology, in vitro and in vivo biological modeling, predictive pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and human exposure and hazard assessment. He also has extensive experience in imaging of single fluorescent nanoparticle platforms, including at the single cell level.<\/p>\n
He obtained his Ph.D. in 2001 in the group of Frans De Schryver at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K. U. Leuven), Belgium, where he worked on the characterization of organic supramolecular systems. After a post-doctoral stay in the group of E. W. Meijer in 2002 at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU\/e), The Netherlands, he moved to the group of Paul Barbara at the University of Texas at Austin as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked on the photophysical properties of single conjugated polymer molecules embedded in optoelectronic devices. He is an NSF CAREER awardee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Andre J. Gesquiere is a Professor at University of Central Florida at the Department of Chemistry and the NanoScience Technology Center. His current research program is devoted to nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy, and modeling and simulations, both with focus on applications in biology and medicine, as well as to the design of nanoscale optoelectronic […]","protected":false},"featured_media":6373,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"people_group":[34,24,40,43],"class_list":["post-3713","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people_group-analytical","people_group-faculty","people_group-materials","people_group-physical"],"yoast_head":"\n