Dr Cadarso received a PhD in Physics in Dec 2008 from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He conducted his research in the Chemical Transducers Group (GTQ) at the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB) in the frame of Micro and Nanotechnology for the development of microsystems and (bio)sensors. In 2009 he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) as a Marie Curie Fellow. The project was devoted to the technology transfer between academy and industry in the frame of polymer technologies. In 2013 he obtained a prestigious and highly competitive Ambizione Fellowship from the Swiss National Science foundation, to join the Laboratory for Micro and Nanotechnology at the Paul Scherrer Insitut (PSI). He developed novel advanced 3D nanolithography methods, a technology for the fabrication of hierarchical micro/nanostructures, techniques for the patterning of complex materials, the development of a novel technique for the replication of very high aspect ratio structures and a novel research line for the development of photonic sensing elements. In 2016 he joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Monash University as Senior Lecturer to establish a laboratory in the frame of micro and nanotechnologies, sensing  and imaging applications, soft matter and surface modification for biomedical and environmental applications. He has been also appointed as Research Leader for the Centre to Impact Antimicrobial Resistance.

Contribution to field of research – Dr Cadarso’s research has resulted in the establishment of novel technologies that have led to: the development of novel devices that did not exist before (such as SU-8 based MOEMS), he has actively contributed to the creation of novel commercial products (i.e. polymers commercialised by micro resist technology GmbH), the invention of patents that are currently being commercially exploited and the co-founding of two high tech nanotechnology based start-up (Morphotonix Sàrl and Proton Intelligence Inc). This demonstrate that his work not only has had an impact in the research community but it has also had a significant impact in the real world.

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