Dr. Françisco M. Raymo is Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Miami. His laboratories are located in The Patricia and Philip Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science on the Coral Gables Campus. His research interests are aimed at the development of photoresponsive chemical tools to solve problems of fundamental significance in the biological and physical sciences. Current research efforts are directed to the design, synthesis, characterization and testing of photoactivatable fluorophores for (1) the optical mapping of temperature distributions in three dimensions with micrometer resolution, (2) the investigation of the dynamic and structural factors regulating cellular processes at the molecular level, (3) the fabrication of microstructured lasers with tunable spectral output. All projects demand the chemical synthesis of fluorescent molecular constructs, the spectroscopic analysis of their photochemical and photophysical properties and the assessment of their performance with model fluorescence imaging experiments.
August 22, 2025