Torsten Frosch

Prof. Torsten Frosch is a Professor and Head of the Department of Biophotonics Medical Engineering at TU Darmstadt's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. His research focuses on innovative biophotonic techniques, including Raman and IR spectroscopy for medical technology applications such as drug monitoring and environmental gas sensing. He pioneered fiber-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for multi-gas analysis and spectroscopic drug interaction studies.

Academically, Frosch holds a PhD in physical chemistry from Friedrich Schiller University Jena and conducted postdoctoral research at Imperial College London and Monash University. His work bridges photonics, analytical chemistry, and biomedical engineering, with contributions to antimalarial drug mechanisms, antibiotic quantification in bodily fluids, and environmental nitrogen cycle modeling.

Research interests include personalized medical devices, non-invasive theranostics, and spectroscopic tools for real-time diagnostics. Notable achievements include developing ultrasensitive gas sensors for greenhouse gases and establishing a junior research group on fiber spectroscopic sensor technology at the Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies.

His publications span over 15 years, emphasizing interdisciplinary applications of spectroscopy in healthcare (e.g., therapeutic drug monitoring) and environmental science (e.g., denitrification studies). Ongoing projects include multimodal Raman imaging setups and cavity-enhanced spectroscopy for trace gas analysis.