Dr. Blanca del Rosal Rabes
Senior Lecturer
Details
Department: School of Science
Campus: City Campus Australia
blanca.delrosal@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0001-9174-8097
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Blanca is an experimental physicist working on optical imaging, spectroscopy and sensing for biomedical applications. She graduated with a PhD in Physics from Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) in 2017 and moved to Australia for a postdoctoral role at Swinburne University of Technology before joining RMIT as a Vice Chancellor's fellow in 2020.
Supervisor projects
- Creation and characterisation of near-infrared colours centres in diamond
- 15 May 2025
- Lifetime imaging for non-invasively tracking brain inflammation and injury
- 12 Mar 2024
- Specialised pro-resolving mediators as a target to prevent cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s Disease
- 28 Feb 2024
- Visualising gut immune cells as a window into gut health
- 12 Jul 2023
- Visualising retinal microglia to understand brain health
- 7 Jun 2023
- Compact Optical Systems for Biosensing and Computing: From Skin Health Monitoring to Diffractive Neural Networks
- 16 Dec 2022
Research interests
Photoluminescence-based sensing for biomedical applications, including deep-tissue imaging and sensing in the short-wave infrared, temperature sensing, and voltage imaging.
