Advanced NMR/MRI in soft matter
Within this research theme, we apply advanced NMR and MRI techniques to better understand complex materials such as foods, biological tissues, and polymer networks. These materials often contain several phases and show behaviours that change across different length and time scales, making them challenging to analyse.
Because of the complexity of foods and biological tissues, we combine magnetic resonance measurements with additional techniques such as spectroscopy, relaxometry, diffusion, flow mapping, and imaging. In addition, we apply AI methods for big data analysis. These techniques together allow us to examine how molecules move, interact, and organise themselves inside soft materials. This way, we study processes such as self-assembly, phase separation, bubble growth, non-Newtonian rheological properties, spatio-temporal flow heterogeneities, and water retention and transfer. Ultimately, our goal is to deepen the quantitative, physico-chemical understanding of multi-phase systems in both scientific and industrial contexts.
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dr. C (Camilla) Terenzi, PhD
Associate Professor
Research themes
Magnetic resonance for foods
We use the magnetic resonance techniques NMR and MRI to unravel the composition, structural organisation and dynamics of food products.
Advanced NMR/MRI in soft matter
We apply advanced NMR and MRI techniques to study complex materials such as foods, biological tissues, and polymer networks.
Single-molecule biophysics
Our lab studies DNA-protein interactions on the molecular level.
Acclimation responses in photosynthetic organisms
In this theme, we investigate how plants and cyanobacteria cope with differences in light quantity and quality.