The image below was “drawn” on an ultrathin film of trimethylsilyl cellulose (also on silica, shown at the end of the video) by using Focused Electron Beam Induced Nanosynthesis (courtesy of Prof. Stefan Spirk and Harald Plank, TU Graz, Austria. Actual image size= 16×19 micron).
Prof. Orlando Rojas is a Canada Excellence Research Chair in top-ranked University of British Columbia, under a program that supports world‑renowned scientists. In this condition he is the Director of the Bioproducts Institute and shares affiliation with three departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemistry and Wood Science. Part of his research group operates in Aalto University, Finland: Bio-based Colloids and Materials. Prof. Rojas is the first Latin-American to receive the Anselme Payen Award, established by the American Chemical Society in 1962, the highest recognition in the area of cellulose and renewable materials. In addition, Prof. Rojas is an elected as Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the recipient of the Tappi Nanotechnology Award, the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, TAPPI, and the International Academy of Wood Science. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of NC State University (USA). Prof. Rojas was chair of Aalto’s Materials Platform and led a national competence center to advance the Finnish materials bioeconomy, the FinnCERES Flagship. He was co-PI of the Academy of Finland’s Center of Excellence in Molecular Engineering of Biosynthetic Hybrid Materials Research, HYBER. His recent research grants include the prestigious European Research Commission Advanced Grant (ERC-Advanced) and a Horizon H2020 project, among many others.
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Dr. Rojas has made extensive contributions to education and scientific mentorship, having supervised more than 55 postdoctoral fellows, 70 PhD students, and over 50 MSc students, and hosted more than 140 international visiting researchers. He has authored approximately 670 peer-reviewed publications, with an h-index exceeding 115 and more than 58,000 citations (Google Scholar). Dr. Rojas has been consistently ranked among the top 1% of researchers worldwide by citations (Clarivate Web of Science).
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