Curriculum vitae
Personal information:
- Name: Jaime Alberto Castillo León
- Date of Birth: 14th of November 1973
- Place of Birth: Bucaramanga, Colombia
- Citizenship: Colombian, Swedish
- Paternity leave: June-August 2009, December 2011-February
2012
- Marital status: cohabiting, three children
Present address:
Positions:
- 2012-present: Associate professor, DTU Nanotech, Technical
University of Denmark
- 2009-2012: Assistant professor, DTU Nanotech, Technical
University of Denmark
- 2007-2009: Postdoctoral fellow, DTU Nanotech, Technical
University of Denmark
- 2006: Postdoctoral fellow, Analytical Chemistry Department,
Bochum University, Germany
Education:
- 2001-2005 PhD from the Biotechnology Department, Lund
University, Sweden. Thesis title: “Amperometric biosensors
for detection of analytes from cellular models.”
- Bachelor of Science: 1993-2000 Faculty of Chemistry. Industrial
University of Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
Languages:
English, Spanish
Research experience:
- 2012-present Associate professor at the Department of Micro-
and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark
- 2009-2012 Assistant Professor at the Department of Micro- and
Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark
- 2007-2009 postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Micro- and
Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark.
- 2006 postdoc fellow at the Dept. Of Analytical Chemistry,
Bochum University, Germany.
- 10-30 April 2005. Bochum University, Germany, working with
Prof. Wolfgang Schuhmann on the study of local electrochemistry at
living cells using needle type dual barrel electrodes.
- Cellsens. 5-31 July 2004. Bochum University, Germany, working
with Prof. Wolfgang Schuhmann on the use of an array of modified
electrodes for the simultaneous detection of glutamate and nitric
oxide from cells.
- Cellsens. 2-28 February 2004. Bochum University Germany,
working with Prof. Wolfgang Schuhmann on measurement of glutamate
using an array of modified planar electrodes as amperometric
biosensors.
- Cellsens Measuring Session. 20-31 October, 2003. Bochum
University, Germany, working with Prof. Wolfgang Schuhmann on
simultaneous measurement of glutamate and nitric oxide using
amperometric biosensors.
- 2000-2001 (9 months) at the Department of Biotechnology, Lund
University, Sweden, supervised by Assoc. Prof. Elisabeth
Csöregi, working on the sweet potato peroxidase
purification
Research projects:
- Phototoxic effect of functionalized biological nanotubes on
cells infected with Leishmaniasis. Danish Agency for Science
Technology and Innovation. Department of Micro and Nanotechnology,
Technical University of Denmark, 2009-2012.
- BeNatural. Bioengineered Nanomaterials for Research and
Applications. EU Project. Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology,
Technical University of Denmark. 2006-2009
- High-Resolution Lateral Imaging of Neurological Activity Using
Novel Sensitive Micro-Biosensors (INAS), INTAS Project, Lund
University 2002-2005 (36 months)
- CellSens. Novel in-vitro platforms based on intra- and
extracellular sensing, Cellsens. EU Project. Coordinated by
Elisabeth Csöregi. Biotechnology Department, Lund University
2001-2004 (36 months)
- Peroxidases, isolation and purification from palm leaves.
Supervised by Dr. Ivan Sakharov. Faculty of Chemistry. Industrial
University of Santander (Colombia) 1998-2000 (24 months)
- Adjust validation and transfer of the technology of
fermentation of cocoa in rotational drum. Supervised by Dr. Ayde
Perea. Faculty of Chemistry. Industrial University of Santander
(Colombia) 1997-1998 (18 months)
Publications:
Number of articles: 29
h-index: 12 (Scopus and ISI)
Number of citations: 380 (ISI), 421
(Scopus)
Grants:
- Otto Mønsteds Fond travel grant, 2012, 9000 DKK
- Otto MønstedsFond travel grant, 2011, 10600 DKK
- Lundbeckfonden travel grant, 2010, 20700 DKK
- Otto Mønsteds Fond travel grant, 2010, 6282 DKK
- Otto Mønsteds Fond travel grant, 2009, 10608 DKK
- Nano Today 2009 Conference Travel Award, 500 USD
- Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation. Project
grant, 2008, 2.430.000 DKK (326.000 €)
- Otto Mønsteds Fond travel grant, 2008, 8093 DKK
- Nano2Life travel grant, 2008, 2315 €
- Otto Mønsteds Fond travel grant, 2007, 7837 DKK
- Nano2Life scholarship to attend the Summer School: Methods in
Micro- Nanotechnology and Nanobiotechnology in Athens (Greece),
2007, 1000 €
- Nano2Life scholarship to attend the CeNTech summer workshop in
Munster (Germany), 2005, 950 €
- Stiftelsen Bokelunds resestipendiefond travel grant, 2005, 5100
SEK
- Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse travel grant, 2004, 12 000
SEK
- Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse travel grant, 2002, 10 000
SEK
- Swedish Institute Fellowship for 6 months, 2000, 43 200
SEK
- Swedish Institute Fellowship for 9 months, 2000, 64 800
SEK
- Colombian Agriculture Ministry, Fellowship for 6 months,
1998, 500 US
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Courses attended:
- Hazards in the chemical research laboratory, 2002, Lund
University
- Microsensor analysis in the environmental sciences, Nordisk
Forskerutdanningsakademi (NorFa), April 28- May 10 2002,
Copenhagen University
- Electro analytical chemistry, 2003, Lund University
- Biosensor technology, 2004, Lund University
- Cell culture techniques, 2004, Lund University
- Medicinal chemistry, 2004, Lund University
- Cell signalling and apoptosis, 2005, Lund University
- Micro electrochemistry for biological applications, 2005,
Bochum University
- Techniques in Nanobioanalytics: Theory, applications in life
sciences and practical training, Center for Nanotechnology
(CENTECH), 7-15 July 2005, Münster, Germany
- Cleanroom: safety and hands on course, 2007, Danchip, Technical
University of Denmark.
- 1st European Science Foundation Summer School in
Nanomedicine, 10-15 June 2007, University of Cardiff, Wales.
- Methods in Micro-Nanotechnology and Nanobiotechnology. National
Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”. June
25-July 6 2007. Athens, Greece
- Nano2Life Research School, Micro and nano technologies for
medical applications. March 31-April 4 2008. Lund, Sweden
- Theory and practice of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.
15th to 18th July 2008. Bath University,
Bath, United Kingdom
- Mentoring of experts-Supervising PhD students. 18th
November 2008. Learning Lab DTU, Technical University of
Denmark
- English course for teachers. March 4 to May 6 2009. Learning
Lab DTU, Technical University of Denmark.
- Education in University Teaching at DTU. 1½-year
programme with a workload of 250 hours including a project on the
participant own teaching. Learning Lab DTU, Technical University of
Denmark.
- Teaching international students. 11th April 2011.
Learning Lab DTU, Technical University of Denmark. This course
includes two
workshops:
- Effective learning for students
- Student integration issues (inside and outside the
classroom)
Supervising activity:
- Lab assistant for the Bioaffinity-Biosensors course,
Biotechnology Dep., Lund University
(Sweden) November 2001
- Eka Kapanadze, MSc student, Lund University (Sweden). Feb.-July
2005.
- Ksenia Us, MSc student, Lund University (Sweden). Feb.-July
2005.
- Huseyin Belkir Yildiz, PhD student, Bochum University
(Germany). Feb.-July 2006
- Katharina Jockers, MSc student, Bochum University (Germany),
June-July 2006.
- Murat Ates, PhD student, Bochum University (Germany). July-Aug.
2006
- Giorgio Prosperi, MSc student, Technical University of Denmark,
May-Oct. 2007
- Simone Tanzi, MSc student, Technical University of Denmark,
Jan.-June 2007
- Alexander Jensen, BSc student, Copenhagen University, Feb.-May
2009
- Sebastian Gauthier, MSc student, Technical University of
Denmark, Dec. 2008-June 2009
- Martin Græsvænge, MSc student, Technical University
of Denmark, Jan.-June 2009
- Martin Hedegård Sørensen, MSc student , Technical
University of Denmark, Sept. 2008-June 2009
- Nikolaj O. Christiansen, MSc student, Technical University of
Denmark, June 2009-Feb. 2010
- Peter J. Paluszewski, MSc student, Technical University of
Denmark, Nov. 2009-April 2010
- Aleksandra Glosnicka, MSc student, Technical University of
Denmark, Feb.-July 2010
- Bruno Viguier, MSc student, Lund University, May-Nov. 2010
- Yuri Belotti, MSc student, Technical University of Denmark,
Nov. 2010-Aug. 2011
- Aleksander Jensen, MSc student, Copenhagen University,
Jan.-Dec. 2011
- Luigi Sasso, PhD student, Technical University of Denmark,
2009-2012
- Karsten B. Andersen, PhD student, Technical University of
Denmark, 2009-2012
- Mehmet Taskin, MSc student, Technical University of Denmark,
Nov. 2011-June 2012
Teaching activity:
- Instructor for the Lab on a Chip/Microfluidics course at the
59th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and
Applied Spectroscopy (PITTCON), March 1-7 2008, New Orleans,
Louisiana,
USA
- Instructor for the Lab on a Chip/Microfluidics course at the
60th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and
Applied Spectroscopy (PITTCON), March 8-13 2009, Chicago, Illinois,
USA
- Instructor for the Lab on a Chip/Microfluidics course at the
61st Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and
Applied Spectroscopy (PITTCON), February 28-March 3 2010, Orlando,
Florida, USA
- Instructor for the Lab on a Chip/Microfluidics course at the
62nd Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and
Applied Spectroscopy (PITTCON), March 13-18 2011, Atlanta, Georgia,
USA
- Instructor for the Lab on a Chip/Microfluidics course at the
63rd Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and
Applied Spectroscopy (PITTCON), March 11-15 2012, Orlando, Florida,
USA
- Instructor for the Techniques for the handling of biological
samples course at the 63rd Pittsburgh Conference on
Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (PITTCON), March
11-15 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA
- Lecturer on DTU course Nano-1: Introduction to nanotechnology
(33320) at the Department of Micro and Nanotechnology (Technical
University of Denmark). 2009-2011
Professional memberships:
- American Chemical Society member. Membership No. 30064491
- Swedish Chemical Society member. Membership No. 8457
- Danish Chemical Society member. Membership No. 2478
Reviewer:
Reviewer of peer-reviewed journals: Analyst,
Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Methods, Chemical Communications,
Electrophoresis, European Polymer Journal, Integrative Biology, Lab
on a Chip, Nanoscale.
Reviewer for research projects: European
Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research
(COST).
Grants:
Grants:
- Otto MønstedsFond travel grant, 2011, 10600 DKK
- Lundbeckfonden travel grant, 2010, 20700 DKK
- Otto Mønsteds Fond travel grant, 2010, 6282 DKK
- Otto Mønsteds Fond travel grant, 2009, 10608 DKK
- Nano Today 2009 Conference Travel Award, 500 USD
- Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation. Project
grant, 2008, 2.430.000 DKK (326.000 €)
- Otto Mønsteds Fond travel grant, 2008, 8093 DKK
- Nano2Life travel grant, 2008, 2315 €
- Otto Mønsteds Fond travel grant, 2007, 7837 DKK
- Nano2Life scholarship to attend the Summer School: Methods in
Micro- Nanotechnology and Nanobiotechnology in Athens (Greece),
2007, 1000 €
- Nano2Life scholarship to attend the CeNTech summer workshop in
Munster (Germany), 2005, 950 €
- Stiftelsen Bokelunds resestipendiefond travel grant, 2005, 5100
SEK
- Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse travel grant, 2004, 12 000
SEK
- Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse travel grant, 2002, 10 000
SEK
- Swedish Institute Fellowship for 6 months, 2000, 43 200
SEK
- Swedish Institute Fellowship for 9 months, 2000, 64 800
SEK
- Colombian Agriculture Ministry, Fellowship for 6 months,
1998, 500 US
Patents:
Patents:
- Method and system for manipulating organic nanostructures. US
Patent, No. 50298
Professional
memberships:
- American Chemical Society member. Membership No.
30064491
- Swedish Chemical Society member. Membership No.
8457
- Danish Chemical Society member. Membership No.
2478
International Experience:Research projects:
- Phototoxic effect of functionalized biological nanotubes on
cells infected with Leishmaniasis. Danish Agency for Science
Technology and Innovation. Department of Micro and Nanotechnology,
Technical University of Denmark, 2009-2012.
- BeNatural. Bioengineered Nanomaterials for Research and
Applications. EU Project. Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology,
Technical University of Denmark. 2006-2009
- High-Resolution Lateral Imaging of Neurological Activity Using
Novel Sensitive Micro-Biosensors (INAS), INTAS Project, Lund
University 2002-2005 (36 months)
- CellSens. Novel in-vitro platforms based on intra- and
extracellular sensing, Cellsens. EU Project. Coordinated by
Elisabeth Csöregi. Biotechnology Department, Lund University
2001-2004 (36 months)
Language Skills:English
Spanish