Cuong Cao

Cuong earned B.Sc. degree in Biology and M.Sc. in Biochemistry from Ho Chi Minh City University of Science, Viet Nam prior to obtaining his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea in 2008. Upon completion of Ph.D. program, Cuong joined Technical University of Denmark from 2008 to 2011 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. From October 2011 to July 2013 he was a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Since July 2013 he is currently a Lecturer in Advanced Micro- and Nanodiagnostics within Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences.

His research interest focuses on exploration and exploitation of multifunctional micro- and nanostructures, plasmonics-based biosensing platforms (SPR, LSPR, SERS), and integrated point-of-care analyses with a particular emphasis on detecting and identifying pathogens, biomarkers, food and environment toxins.