Fernando D. Stefani

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
105 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Fernando D. Stefani is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fernando D. Stefani has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 37 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 31 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Fernando D. Stefani's work include Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (27 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (23 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (20 papers). Fernando D. Stefani is often cited by papers focused on Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (27 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (23 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (20 papers). Fernando D. Stefani collaborates with scholars based in Argentina, Germany and Switzerland. Fernando D. Stefani's co-authors include N.F. van Hulst, T. H. Taminiau, Jochen Feldmann, F. B. Segerink, Francisco Balzarotti, Stefan W. Hell, Andrey A. Lutich, Klaus Gwosch, Volker Westphal and Arvid H. Gynnå and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Fernando D. Stefani

101 papers receiving 5.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Nanometer resolution imaging and tracking of fluorescent molecules with minimal photon fluxes

2016 800 citations Fernando D. Stefani et al. profile →
Optical antennas direct single-molecule emission

2008 562 citations T. H. Taminiau, Fernando D. Stefani et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fernando D. Stefani Argentina	37	2.9k	1.9k	1.7k	1.4k	1.2k	105	5.9k
Sophie Brasselet France	43	1.6k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	1.8k 1.5×	155	5.6k
Christy F. Landes United States	38	1.6k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	683 0.5×	1.6k 1.3×	127	5.0k
Gilad Haran Israel	49	2.1k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	4.6k 2.7×	1.8k 1.3×	2.1k 1.7×	118	8.1k
Alfred J. Meixner Germany	44	2.6k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	803 0.5×	2.1k 1.5×	2.2k 1.8×	267	6.4k
Ahmed A. Heikal United States	29	4.5k 1.5×	1.3k 0.7×	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	3.8k 3.0×	66	8.5k
Thomas A. Klar Germany	44	5.7k 2.0×	4.7k 2.5×	2.8k 1.6×	2.0k 1.4×	4.8k 3.8×	112	12.0k
Hervé Rigneault France	47	4.8k 1.6×	2.2k 1.1×	2.7k 1.6×	2.7k 1.9×	957 0.8×	271	9.6k
Robert J. Twieg United States	57	2.1k 0.7×	4.7k 2.4×	1.0k 0.6×	3.2k 2.2×	3.1k 2.5×	289	11.0k
Peter M. Goodwin United States	34	1.4k 0.5×	578 0.3×	1.5k 0.9×	756 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	123	4.0k
Jörg Enderlein Germany	55	3.9k 1.3×	778 0.4×	3.6k 2.1×	2.1k 1.5×	2.1k 1.7×	275	10.9k

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Bonomi, Hernán R., et al.. (2025). Monitoring Dynamic Conformations of a Single Fluorescent Molecule Inside a Protein Cavity. Small Methods. 9(8). e2402114–e2402114.

Wojnacki, José, Gonzalo Quassollo, Nicolás Unsain, et al.. (2024). Dual spatio-temporal regulation of axon growth and microtubule dynamics by RhoA signaling pathways. Journal of Cell Science. 137(14). 4 indexed citations

Pilo‐Pais, Mauricio, et al.. (2023). Super‐Resolved FRET Imaging by Confocal Fluorescence‐Lifetime Single‐Molecule Localization Microscopy. Small Methods. 7(7). e2201565–e2201565. 17 indexed citations

Gargiulo, Julián, Matías Herran, Ianina L. Violi, et al.. (2023). Impact of bimetallic interface design on heat generation in plasmonic Au/Pd nanostructures studied by single-particle thermometry. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3813–3813. 39 indexed citations

Masullo, Luciano A., et al.. (2023). Optimization and characterization of toroidal foci for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy: tutorial. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 40(4). C103–C103. 2 indexed citations

Sanz‐Paz, María, Antonio I. Fernández‐Domínguez, Xiaolu Zhuo, et al.. (2022). DNA-Templated Ultracompact Optical Antennas for Unidirectional Single-Molecule Emission. Nano Letters. 22(15). 6402–6408. 16 indexed citations

Joshi, Himanshu, et al.. (2021). Determining the In-Plane Orientation and Binding Mode of Single Fluorescent Dyes in DNA Origami Structures. ACS Nano. 15(3). 5109–5117. 28 indexed citations

Lukin, Jerónimo, David J. Williamson, Nicolás Unsain, et al.. (2021). Three-dimensional total-internal reflection fluorescence nanoscopy with nanometric axial resolution by photometric localization of single molecules. Nature Communications. 12(1). 517–517. 25 indexed citations

Vogl, Annette M., Lilian Phu, Sebastián A. Giusti, et al.. (2020). Global site-specific neddylation profiling reveals that NEDDylated cofilin regulates actin dynamics. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 27(2). 210–220. 66 indexed citations

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Quassollo, Gonzalo, Esther del Cid‐Pellitero, Thomas M. Durcan, et al.. (2020). Quantitative expansion microscopy for the characterization of the spectrin periodic skeleton of axons using fluorescence microscopy. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 2917–2917. 16 indexed citations

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Masullo, Luciano A., Sebastián A. Giusti, Nicolás Unsain, et al.. (2017). Automated quantification of protein periodic nanostructures in fluorescence nanoscopy images: abundance and regularity of neuronal spectrin membrane-associated skeleton. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 16029–16029. 19 indexed citations

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Álvarez, Yanina D., et al.. (2014). Influence of Gold Nanoparticles on the Kinetics of Alpha-Synuclein Aggregation. Biophysical Journal. 106(2). 257a–258a. 5 indexed citations

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Stefani, Fernando D. & Pedro F. Aramendı́a. (2011). ¿Se puede ver una molécula?: Cómo se estudia el comportamiento de moléculas individuales. Ciencia hoy. 21(124). 8–14. 1 indexed citations

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Brinks, Daan, Richard Hildner, Fernando D. Stefani, & N.F. van Hulst. (2011). Coherent control of single molecules at room temperature. Faraday Discussions. 153. 51–51. 23 indexed citations

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Coronado, Eduardo A., Ezequiel R. Encina, & Fernando D. Stefani. (2011). Optical properties of metallic nanoparticles: manipulating light, heat and forces at the nanoscale. Nanoscale. 3(10). 4042–4042. 238 indexed citations

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Hildner, Richard, Daan Brinks, Fernando D. Stefani, & N.F. van Hulst. (2011). Electronic coherences and vibrational wave-packets in single molecules studied with femtosecond phase-controlled spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(5). 1888–1888. 34 indexed citations

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Brinks, Daan, Fernando D. Stefani, Florian Kulzer, et al.. (2010). Visualizing and controlling vibrational wave packets of single molecules. Nature. 465(7300). 905–908. 135 indexed citations

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Taminiau, T. H., Fernando D. Stefani, & N.F. van Hulst. (2008). Enhanced directional excitation and emission of single emitters by a nano-optical Yagi-Uda antenna. Optics Express. 16(14). 10858–10858. 227 indexed citations

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Stefani, Fernando D., A. Best, Gabriele Nelles, et al.. (2004). Impact of micropatterned surfaces on neuronal polarity. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 134(2). 191–198. 52 indexed citations

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Gianturco, F. A., A.E. Semprini, & Fernando D. Stefani. (1986). Proton-CO2(X1Σ) orientational anisotropy from an ab initio SCF potential energy surface. Chemical Physics Letters. 126(1). 81–87. 4 indexed citations

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