Luminescent Thermometry

Introduction to luminescence thermometry.- New strategies to improve thermal sensitivity and temperature resolution in lanthanide-doped luminescent thermometers.- Multiparametric luminescence thermometry.- Primary luminescence thermometers.- Luminescence nanothermometry below the diffraction limit.- Luminescence thermometry in highly doped lanthanide nanoparticles.- Luminescence thermometry in MOFs.- Persistent luminescence nanothermometers.- Luminescence thermometry for biomedical applications.- Luminescence thermometry in the biological windows for theranostic.- Contactless luminescence nanothermometry in the brain.- Luminescence lifetime thermometry for accurate measurements in vivo.- Luminescence thermometry and optical trapping.- Applications of luminescence thermometry in catalysis.- Critical analysis of the recent advances, applications and uses on luminescence thermometry.

Joan J. Carvajal obtained his Bachelor in Chemistry (1997), Master in Experimental Chemistry (2001) and PhD in Chemistry (2003, FI fellowship) at the University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain, developing self-frequency doubling lasers. After occupying a post-doctoral Fulbright fellow position during 2 years at Stony Brook University, working on crystal growth of nanostructures of wide bandgap semiconductor through Chemical Vapor Deposition, in 2006 he was awarded with a Ramon y Cajal position in Materials Science, back at the URV, where he is Associate Professor since 2011.

He is co-author of more than 225 papers in international scientific journals. 


He is co-author of a book chapter in the Springer Handbook on Crystal Growth, Springer-Verlag, 2010 in the 21st Century Nanoscience Handbook, CRC Press, 2020 and in "Short-wavelength infrared windows for biomedical applications", SPIE, 2022.



He has supervised 8 PhD Thesis in the fields of integrated photonics, structuration of non-linear optical materials to develop diffraction gratings, the concept of down-shifting in polymeric solar cells to increase their efficiency, production of porous GaN through CVD and luminescence nano thermometry. At present, he is supervising 2 additional PhD Theses on developing luminescent carbonaceous materials that can act simultaneously as catalysts and luminescent sensors of temperature, pH and pressure, and measuring the impact of the training programs for doctoral supervisors.




He is the Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry of the URV since 2022. Since 2019 he is Visiting Professor at the Harbin Engineering University (Harbin, China). He is also founding member of the Group of Trainers for the Professionalization of the Doctoral Supervision at the URV.




Maria Cinta Pujol born in 1973, is a member of the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry at the URV M. C. Pujol's research career