Research areas
Juan studied physics in Uruguay and did his PhD in Ireland at the Centre for Bio-Nano Interactions, University College Dublin. He subsequently did a postdoc at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Neurosciences in Bordeaux (France), and a second postdoc in neurodegeneration at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge (UK). Juan established his research group at the University of 58³Ô¹Ï funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. His main research interests are the use of nanotechnology and single-molecule imaging to understand and cure neurodegenerative diseases. Visit our lab website for research updates and opportunities:
PhD supervision
- Rhona Hamilton
Selected publications
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Open access
Watanabe, A., Hirayama, S., Kominato, I., Marchese, S., Esposito, P., Metodieva, V., Kimura, T., Kameda, H., Sano, T., Takao, M., Takatori, S., Koike, M., Varela, J. A., Tomita, T. & Murata, S., 14 Aug 2025, In: PLoS Biology. 23, 8, e3003006.
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Resnick, S. J., Qamar, S., Krishna, P., Korobeynikov, V., Ausserwoger, H., Miller, A., Esposito, P., Varela, J. A., Sheng, J., Huang, L. H., Nixon-Abell, J., Melore, S., Chung, C. W., Läubli, N. F., Kapsiani, S., Li, X., Wang, J., Zhang, N., Alam, M. M. & Burguete, A. S. & 11 others, , 1 Nov 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, p. 1-27 27 p., 10285.
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Zepernick, A.-L., Metodieva, V., Pelegrina-Hidalgo, N., Lippert, A. H., Horrocks, M. H. & Varela, J. A., 21 May 2024, In: Nanoscale. 16, 19, p. 9576-9582 7 p.
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Rodrigues, M., Bhattacharjee, P., Brinkmalm, A., Do, D. T., Pearson, C. M., De, S., Ponjavic, A., Varela, J. A., Kulenkampff, K., Baudrexel, I., Emin, D., Ruggeri, F. S., Lee, J. E., Carr, A. R., Knowles, T. P. J., Zetterberg, H., Snaddon, T. N., Gandhi, S., Lee, S. F. & Klenerman, D., Sept 2022, In: Nature Chemistry. 14, 9, p. 1045-1056 12 p.
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Needham, L. M., Weber, J., Varela, J. A., Fyfe, J. W. B., Do, D. T., Xu, C. K., Tutton, L., Cliffe, R., Keenlyside, B., Klenerman, D., Dobson, C. M., Hunter, C. A., Müller, K. H., O'Holleran, K., Bohndiek, S. E., Snaddon, T. N. & Lee, S. F., 14 May 2020, In: Chemical Science. 11, 18, p. 4578-4583 6 p.
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De, S., Wirthensohn, D. C., Flagmeier, P., Hughes, C., Aprile, F. A., Ruggeri, F. S., Whiten, D. R., Emin, D., Xia, Z., Varela, J. A., Sormanni, P., Kundel, F., Knowles, T. P. J., Dobson, C. M., Bryant, C., Vendruscolo, M. & Klenerman, D., 4 Apr 2019, In: Nature Communications. 10, 11 p., 1541.
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Danne, N., Godin, A. G., Gao, Z., Varela, J. A., Groc, L., Lounis, B. & Cognet, L., 21 Feb 2018, In: ACS Photonics. 5, 2, p. 359-364 11 p.
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Qamar, S., Wang, G., Randle, S. J., Ruggeri, F. S., Varela, J. A., Lin, J. Q., Phillips, E. C., Miyashita, A., Williams, D., Ströhl, F., Meadows, W., Ferry, R., Dardov, V. J., Tartaglia, G. G., Farrer, L. A., Kaminski Schierle, G. S., Kaminski, C. F., Holt, C. E., Fraser, P. E. & Schmitt-Ulms, G. & 4 others, , 19 Apr 2018, In: Cell. 173, 3, p. 720-734 e15.
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Varela, J. A., Rodrigues, M., De, S., Flagmeier, P., Gandhi, S., Dobson, C. M., Klenerman, D. & Lee, S. F., 23 Apr 2018, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57, 18, p. 4886-4890 5 p.
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Godin, A. G., Varela, J. A., Gao, Z., Danné, N., Dupuis, J. P., Lounis, B., Groc, L. & Cognet, L., Mar 2017, In: Nature Nanotechnology. 12, 3, p. 238-243 6 p.
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