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Ivan B. Dimov received his MChem in chemistry from Oxford University, with a final year project in droplet interface bilayers, supervised by Prof. Hagan Bayley. He then moved to the University of Cambridge, for a PhD, as part of the EPSRC NanoDTC. His project was on mechanically matching neuroelectronic devices to brain and nerve tissue, supervised jointly by Dr. Kristian Franze and Prof. Henning Sirringhaus. Currently, Ivan is doing a postdoc in the Bioelectronic laboratory, in the area of wearable bioelectronics, as part of the EPSRC-funded PNEUMACRIT project for monitoring lung function in pre-term infants. Email: ibd20@cam.ac.uk |
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Alexander Boys received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA, US) and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, US), where he was co-advised by Prof. Lara Estroff and Prof. Lawrence Bonassar. Alex’s Ph.D. research focused on the characterization and subsequent tissue engineering of orthopedic interfaces through an F31 Fellowship from the US NIH and an EAPSI Fellowship from the US NSF. Alex began his postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge in 2019, working on bioelectronic tissue engineered systems with Prof. Róisín Owens in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Alex is currently working jointly with Prof. Owens and Prof. Malliaras through a HFSP Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship on the development of tissue engineered neural implants for the gut. Email: ab2661@cam.ac.uk • @AlexanderJBoys |
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Iwan Roberts is a Rosetrees Trust Enterprise Fellow in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the group of Prof. Manohar Bance. With a multidisciplinary background, Iwan completed a MPhys Physics degree at Durham University followed by a PhD in the EPSRC MRC CDT for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Manchester focussing on tissue engineering of contractile tissues. His current research focusses on the development of 3D printed artificial cochlea to study the electrical properties of cochlear implant stimulation as well as the mechanical properties of insertion to improve cochlear implant machine-neural interfacing and reduce insertion trauma, respectively. Furthermore, his research also involves finite element modelling, neural cell culture on microelectrode arrays and study of fibrosis on electrode implants. Additionally, Iwan is a keen supporter scientific entrepreneurship and innovation and leads the global Innovation Forum network of entrepreneurial scientists. Email: ivr22@cam.ac.uk |
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Scott T. Keene received his BA in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in 2015. In 2020, he received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University where he worked in Prof. Alberto Salleo’s group as a Stanford Graduate Fellow. During his doctoral training, Scott developed wearable biosensors for detection of analytes in sweat as well as organic neuromorphic devices for artificial neural network accelerators and neurological interfacing. His current research in the Bioelectronics Laboratory focuses on understanding the fundamental physics of electrochemical doping in organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors. Email: stk30@cam.ac.uk |
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Amparo Güemes González received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (2016) from Polytechnic University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain), and her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering (2017) and PhD in Electrical Engineering (2021) from Imperial College London (London, UK), where she was supervised by Prof Pantelis Georgiou. Amparo’s PhD research focused on the design of mathematical models of the neural regulation of glucose homeostasis. During her doctoral training, Amparo was a visiting PhD research fellow in the Computational Sensory-Motor Systems Lab led by Prof Ralph Etienne-Cummings at Johns Hopkins University, where she gained knowledge on the in vivo impact of neural stimulation on blood glucose fluctuations. As a postdoctoral 1851 Research Fellow at the Bioelectronic Lab, Amparo aims to develop advanced algorithms and neurotechnology to be integrated into a closed-loop platform that improves glucose control for diabetes. Email: ag2239@cam.ac.uk |
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Eleni Mitoudi Vagourdi received her M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from Aristotle University, Greece in 2013 and her M.Sc. in 'Microsystems and Nanodevices' from the National Technical University of Athens in 2015. In 2020 she received her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, where she worked in Prof. Mats Johnssons' group. Her Ph.D. research was focused on the design, synthesis, and characterization of new inorganic crystalline materials which have low dimensional structural arrangements and exhibit optical, magnetic, and/or electrochemical properties, suitable for technological applications. In 2021 she was awarded the Bengt Lundqvist Minne Research Fellowship from the Swedish Chemical Society. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Bioelectronics laboratory, Eleni will work on new flexible electrode materials for long-term health monitoring applications. Email: em881@cam.ac.uk |
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Chaoqun Dong received her doctoral degree in Materials Science and Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in 2021. Her PhD research in Prof. Fabien Sorin’s group focused on design, scalable fabrication and application study of soft electronic multi-material fibers and textiles. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Early-postdoc Mobility Program, she started her postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge in 2021. In 2023 she was awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her current research on the development of soft robotic actuators for minimally invasive neural interfaces. Email: cd779@cam.ac.uk |
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Xudong Tao received his bachelor’s degree (2016) from the University of Manchester and then a master’s degree (2017) from Imperial College London. Afterwards, he moved to Oxford for his PhD degree. At Oxford, he was supervised by Professor Hazel Assender, investigating the roll-to-roll manufacture of flexible/wearable thin-film electronics (e.g. thermoelectric generators). After receiving his doctoral degree (2021), he started a postdoctoral project studying the HiTUS technique at Oxford in collaboration with Plasma Quest Ltd. At Cambridge, Xudong works as a research associate in the Bioelectronics Laboratory since 2022 focusing on an implantable drug delivery device for brain tumours. Email: xt240@cam.ac.uk |
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Antonio Dominguez-Alfaro received his BSc in Chemical Engineering (2012), MSc in Chemistry (2013) and MSc in Industrial Engineering (2015) from the University of Huelva. During this period he was a member of the Organic Synthesis and Photochemistry Lab and he worked in the synthesis of new two-photon absorption fluorescence probes for bioimaging. In 2021, he received his PhD in Applied Chemistry and Polymeric Materials from the University of Basque Country. His PhD project focussed on the development of innovative methodologies for the manufacturing of 3D scaffolds composed of conducting polymers and carbon nanomaterials for tridimensional cellular cultures. After his thesis, he joined a one-year post-doc in the Biomolecular Nanotechnology group at CIC biomaGUNE. He worked in the synthesis of hybrid materials composed of conjugated polymers and engineered recombinant proteins. Currently, Antonio is a Margarita Salas Fellowship in the Bioelectronics laboratory, his research is focused on the integration of 3D printing and conducting polymers with microfabrication processes and bio-sensing devices. |
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Tomi Baikie received his BsC in Mathematics and Physics from the University of St Andrews. He completed his thesis at the Cavendish Laboratory working with Akshay Rao and Neil Greenham at the University of Cambridge. Tomi’s PhD focused on ultrafast spectroscopy elucidating the nature of charges in photosynthetic systems, investigating electronic-ionic conductors through transient surface photo-voltage measurements, and a theoretical and experimental investigation into solar concentrating systems. Email: tb589@cam.ac.uk |
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Marco Vinicio Alban-Paccha received his BEng in Mechatronics Engineering (2013) from the Armed Forces University – ESPE (Quito, Ecuador) and his MEng in Micro/Nano Systems (2018) from Korea University (Seoul, Korea), where he worked on OLED material optimization. He then moved to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, Korea), where he received his PhD in Electrical Engineering (2022) advised by Prof. Seunghyup Yoo. Marco's doctoral research was on the use of thin dry electrodes and wearable electronics for cardiovascular sensing. Currently, Marco is doing postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge in the area of wearable sensors as part of the ADVANTAGE research consortium, part of the UK Advanced Pain Discovery Platform for monitoring and treatment of pain. Together with the Pain Group in the Department of Anaesthesia, he aims to develop wearable and ML-powered solutions to detect, classify, and predict pain episodes in humans. Email: ma2035@cam.ac.uk |
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Santiago Velasco-Bosom received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid in 2019 when he worked on the fabrication and response of patterned nanopillar structures used as biosensors. In 2023 he received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge. His project was oriented towards the development of wearable devices for selective stimulation of small fibre nerves in humans. Santiago began his postdoctoral research in Bioelectronics Laboratory working on the fabrication of neural implantable multielectrode arrays for first-in-human trials. Email: sv444@cam.ac.uk |
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Tobias Naegele received his BSc in Physics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn in Germany where he worked on the fabrication of three-dimensional photonic nanostructures. In 2018, he obtained his MSc in Physics at Imperial College London. In his M.Sc. dissertation work, he studied fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and applied it to the characterisation of nanostructures. Tobias is since 2018 member of the EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge. In the Bioelectronics laboratory he works on targeted drug delivery. Email: ten26@cam.ac.uk |
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Nat Hastings received her PhD in Clinical Neurosciences from the University of Cambridge, where she also obtained extensive work experience as a postdoctoral researcher. Her expertise is in advanced brain cell and tissue culture techniques for the purposes of disease modelling, pharmacological testing, and bioelectronic device setup. She has developed a new pharmacological approach to Parkinson’s disease that focusses on protecting networks of brain cells called astrocytes to alleviate inflammation and its consequences. Her translational work has attracted prestigious funding from Rosetrees Trust, Ferblanc Foundation, Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust, Wellcome Trust and Parkinson’s UK. Email: nh564@cam.ac.uk |
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Kian Kadan Jamal received her BSc. in Chemical Engineering from Arial University, and her MSc and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Tel Aviv university in Israel, where she was advised by Prof. Yosi Shacham Diamand. Kian’s Ph.D. research focused on electrical monitoring methods, based on electrical sensors with low-cost electronics, for a novel unified model to investigate electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) using an ultra-wide-band, 4Hz to 20 GHz equivalent electrical circuit. Kian is work on developing a new method to deliver Electrotherapy to Glioblastoma (GBM). Her PostDoc is supported by the Blavatnik Cambridge fellowship and the President of Tel Aviv University Scholarship. Email: kiankadan@mail.tau.ac.il |
