
Netzahualcóyotl Arroyo Currás, known as Netz Arroyo, is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2014 from The University of Texas at Austin under the guidance of Allen J. Bard. From 2015 to 2018 he completed postdoctoral training under Dr. Kevin W. Plaxco at University of California Santa Barbara. He became Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) in 2019 and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2023. In 2024, he was invited to move his research program to (UNC), where he currently works since 2025. His laboratory pursues the development of electrochemical biosensors for continuous molecular monitoring in the body, and for clinical diagnostics. He was named a Rising Star in Sensing by the journal ACS Sensors in 2020, and in 2023 his research was highlighted as highly impactful by the journal Langmuir, both publications of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Arroyo serves as Interim Editor-in-Chief of the newly launched journal Sensors Plus by The Electrochemical Society. He is funded by the NIH, AFRL, several corporate sponsorships and by private foundations. In his free time, he enjoys playing, dancing, and eating ice cream with his daughters in the warm but lovely city of Chapel Hill, NC.