Rate My Professor Ioan Notingher

Professor Ioan Notingher is a Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, at the University of Nottingham. He graduated with a degree in Physics from Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 1998 and completed his PhD at London South Bank University, followed by postdoctoral positions at Imperial College London and the University of Edinburgh. Appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Nottingham in 2006, he now leads the Biophotonics Research Group. His research develops new optical and spectroscopic techniques, particularly Raman spectroscopy-based biophotonics, for studying biological materials at nano- and micro-scales. Applications encompass label-free imaging of live cells and tissues, drug-cell interactions, toxicity assessment, nanoscale optics and spectroscopy, tissue engineering, stem cell differentiation, and intraoperative disease diagnosis, including cancer margin detection during surgery.

Notingher has published over 150 works with more than 7,700 citations. Key publications include 'Diagnosis of tumors during tissue-conserving surgery with integrated autofluorescence and Raman scattering microscopy' (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013), 'Raman spectroscopy for medical diagnostics - From in-vitro biofluid assays to in-vivo cancer detection' (Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2015), 'Automated multimodal spectral histopathology for quantitative diagnosis of residual tumour during basal cell carcinoma surgery' (Biomedical Optics Express, 2017), and 'Non-invasive label-free monitoring the cardiac differentiation of human embryonic stem cells in-vitro by Raman spectroscopy' (Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: General Subjects, 2013). His innovations support clinical applications such as fast Raman spectroscopy for basal cell carcinoma surgery and OCT-Raman systems for breast cancer diagnostics. Honors include the 2024 William F. Meggers Award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, election as a 2025 SAS Fellow, and a 2022 British Skin Foundation award. Notingher's interdisciplinary work advances precision diagnostics in oncology.