Bioengineering Center

Photonic Biosystems and Technologies

Dr. Jain Cui - Photonic Biosystems and Technologies

Research Groups

Jian Cui Lab - The nanoPROBE Lab

Jian Cui Lab

The nanoPROBE lab

Jian’s team synthesizes novel classes of nanomaterials with unique chemical and optical properties. We aim to apply these materials towards the development of unconventional approaches to biological imaging and sensing.

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Our Scientists

Jian Cui, Cui Lab, PI
Hintergrund: HDC Foyer
Dr. Jian Cui

Head of Research Unit and Principal Investigator, Photonic Biosystems and Technologies

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Dr. Gurunath Apte

Postdoc

Dr. Zhizi Jing

Postdoc

Dr. Ruyu Ma

Postdoc

Lukas Nagy

Ph.D. Student

Dr. Luciano Matteo Santino

Postdoc

Moritz Roman Schepp

Ph.D. Student

Sruthi Sunil

Ph.D. Student

Feng Zhao

Ph.D. Student

Top 10 Publications

Opt. Commun. 596:132519 (2025)

Ma, Q. ; Ma, R. ; Yu, H. ; Jiang, X. ; Zhou, Q. ; Wang, X. ; Liang, X. ; Ni, K.

Inverse design of mode-locked fiber lasers based on conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN).
Nat. Methods, DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02694-3 (2025)

Ma, R. ; Santino, L.M. ; Chobola, T. ; Armbrust, N. ; Geilenkeuser, J. ; Sukumaran, S. ; Jing, Z. ; Levkina, A. ; Ridderbeek, K. ; Peng, T. ; Truong, D.J.J. ; Doll, S. ; Westmeyer, G.G. ; Cui, J.

A telescopic microscope equipped with a quanta image sensor for live-cell bioluminescence imaging.
ACS App. Optic. Mat. 3, 676-688 (2025)

Zhou, J. ; Ridderbeek, K. ; Zou, P. ; Naden, A.B. ; Gaussmann, S. ; Song, F. ; Falter-Braun, P. ; Kay, E.R. ; Sattler, M. ; Cui, J.

Modular nanoparticle platform for solution-phase optical sensing of protein-protein interactions.
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 4145-4151 (2022)

Cocina, A. ; Brechbühler, R. ; Vonk, S.J.W. ; Cui, J. ; Rossinelli, A.A. ; Rojo, H. ; Rabouw, F.T. ; Norris, D.J.

Nanophotonic approach to study excited-state dynamics in semiconductor nanocrystals.
ACS Photonics 9, 630-640 (2022)

Aellen, M. ; Rossinelli, A.A. ; Keitel, R.C. ; Brechbühler, R. ; Antolinez, F.V. ; Rodrigo, S.G. ; Cui, J. ; Norris, D.J.

Role of gain in Fabry-Pérot surface plasmon polariton lasers.
Opt. Lett. 47, 730-733 (2022)

Ma, R. ; Yu, H. ; Ma, Q. ; Zhou, Q. ; Ni, K.

Angular velocity measurement with wide range based on dual-comb Sagnac interferometer.
Nano Lett. 21, 8952–8959 (2021)

Keitel, R.C. ; Aellen, M. ; Feber, B.L. ; Rossinelli, A.A. ; Meyer, S.A. ; Cui, J. ; Norris, D.J.

Active mode switching in plasmonic microlasers by spatial control of optical gain.
ACS Nano 13, 9048-9056 (2019)

Antolinez, F.V. ; Winkler, J.M. ; Rohner, P. ; Kress, S.J.P. ; Keitel, R.C. ; Kim, D.K. ; Marques-Gallego, P. ; Cui, J. ; Rabouw, F.T. ; Poulikakos, D. ; Norris, D.J.

Defect-tolerant plasmonic elliptical resonators for long-range energy transfer.
Sci. Adv. 3:e1700688 (2017)

Kress, S.J.P. ; Cui, J. ; Rohner, P. ; Kim, D.K. ; Antolinez, F.V. ; Zaininger, K.A. ; Jayanti, S.V. ; Richner, P. ; McPeak, K.M. ; Poulikakos, D. ; Norris, D.J.

A customizable class of colloidal-quantum-dot spasers and plasmonic amplifiers.
Nano Lett. 17, 1319-1325 (2017)

Prins, F. ; Kim, D.K. ; Cui, J. ; De Leo, E. ; Spiegel, L.L. ; McPeak, K.M. ; Norris, D.J.

Direct patterning of colloidal quantum-dot thin films for enhanced and spectrally selective out-coupling of emission.

Contact

Jian Cui, Cui Lab, PI
Hintergrund: HDC Foyer
Dr. Jian Cui

Head of Research Unit and Principal Investigator, Photonic Biosystems and Technologies

Building / Room: 25, 909

We are a diverse team of researchers asking interdisciplinary questions, and engaging in multidisciplinary approaches, in the hopes of achieving transdisciplinary outcomes (transcending disciplines).

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