Bio
Jorge Wenz achieved its PhD in food chemistry and technology in 1999 at the Universidad Nacional de Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, where he is actually assistant professor. Since its post-doctoral stage at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas, CONICET, he is working in biophysics of membranes, dealing with: the architecture of the membranes, their phase behavior, lateral organization and segregation of the lipids and the influence on these properties. These items have been mainly evaluated by means of fluorescence spectroscopic and multivariate analysis. Nevertheless, in the last few years he incorporated near infrared spectroscopy as an innovative tool to examine the water in membranes, since water not only may inform about the neighboring molecules, but also it is a crucial component of membranes by itself, with a role in their structure and functionality.