MEST Symposium on Biosensing
01 mei 2024 13:30 - Door: Communication EWI | Zet in mijn agenda
13:45 – 14:30 hedding light on precision biosensing: from ensemble to single-particle resolution
Dr. Alina Rwei – Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, TU Delft
Biography
Dr. Alina Rwei engineers smart therapeutic and diagnostic platforms for next-generation precision therapies. Her long-term research goal is to bridge clinical translation with scientific discoveries by interfacing biology, materials science, and engineering in biomedical innovations that will make a long-lasting impact in patients’ lives. She aims to increase the effectiveness of drug delivery systems using chemical and materials engineering, electronic engineering and cell biology approaches. Current fields of focus include: light-, ultrasound- and magnetically-triggered therapeutics for alleviating pain and combatting cancer, wearable electronics for personalized real-time diagnostics, and study of nanoparticle and cellular interactions for designs of effective targeted delivery systems.
14:45 – 15:30 Tackling the challenges in developing miniaturized (bio)chemical sensors
Dr. Marcel Zevenbergen - principal member of technical staff, IMEC
Biography
Dr. Marcel Zevenbergen obtained his MSc from Delft University of Technology in 2005 and a PhD from the same university in 2009. Afterwards, he joined imec the Netherlands where he developed novel sensor platforms for various applications, in close collaboration with industrial partners. Current position is principal member of technical staff both at imec at Holst Centre and imec at OnePlanet leading the advanced sensor development for various applications ranging from smart ingestibles, food processing, artificial organs, organ-on-a-chip and bioreactor monitoring.
15:45 – 16:30 Regenerative Bioelectronic Technologies - #ReBooT
Dr. Achilleas Savva – Assistant Professor, Bioelectronics, Microelectronics, TU Delft
Biography
Achilleas Savva is an Assistant Professor in the Bioelectronics group at the Dept. of Microelectronics at TU Delft, in The Netherlands. His research is focused on “Regenerative Bioelectronic Technologies” - the development of electrically active and light sensitive devices for monitoring and controlling the fate of stem cells for regenerative medicine. In the past, he developed novel bioelectronic devices such as biosensors, light sensitive devices for wireless stimulation of neurons with light, 3D bioelectronics for electrical monitoring of human stem cell cultures, among others. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in chemical engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, and his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Cyprus University of Technology. He then joined the bioengineering Dept. at KAUST, Saudi Arabia as a postdoc and the Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Dept. at the University of Cambridge, UK as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. Achilleas was born in Limassol, Cyprus.
16:45 – 17:30 Engineering careers in commercial settings
Dr. Bert Monna – CEO & co-founder Phosphoenix
Biography
Bert received his engineering diploma (MSc EE) in 1991 from the TU Delft, after which he received his PhD in EE in 1996. After having worked for two years at Catena Microelectronics, he co-founded SystematIC design, providing analog and mixed signal chip design services for a large variety of companies. In 2013 he co-founded Hyperion Technologies, specialised in the design and realisation of components for small satellites. In 2019 he co-founded Phosphoenix, a spin-off of the Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience, developing a brain implant to restore rudimentary vision in blind people.