David Medina Cruz
Northeastern University, Chemical Engineering Department (Boston, MA)
Biography
David Medina Cruz is a Ph.D. student at Northeastern University who joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in Fall 2017 after a short internship period during his master to develop his thesis about the synthesis of novel nanomaterials using living bacteria. Previously he researched the field of physical-chemistry and nanotechnology, using a nano-based Tessier approach for the environmental remediation of heavy metal-contaminated soils. Besides, he was a member of research focused on the creation of nanostructured filters for the purification of water and air coming from industry, using surfactant-like structures mixed with nanomaterials. He is an active member of American Chemical Society (ACS) and Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), among others. Additionally, he has supervised several undergraduates and graduates in his research, leading them into the field of Green chemistry, starting a small division of research within Thomas J. Webster’s Nanomedicine Lab, focusing all the effort in the creation and characterization of environmentally-friendly and biological-like approaches for the synthesis of nanomaterial with biomedical applications. Currently, he is an active member of the leadership board of the scientific association ECUSA in the United States.
Abstract
Abstract : Biogenic metallic nanoparticles. From microbiological biofactories to nanometric trojan horses.