Key data
Activities
- Team leader, Biofabrication
- Lecturer
Expertise
Research field
The vision the 3D Bioprinting Group is to build cell-based biohybrid systems aimed for organs-on-chips as well as for implants aimed to enable personalized therapies/drugs and promote preventive healthcare respectively. With this goal in mind, the 3D Bioprinting Group was able to strengthen and prove its competences in the following fields:
3D Bioprinting
- Bioprinting of vascularized and innervated thick tissues.
- Toxicological assays (body on chip, 3R Animal Free Research).
- Cell and extracellular matrix based functional micro implants.
- Cell-laden hydrogels, single and multicellular.
- Bioinert support materials.
- Ceramics for dental implants.
- Modelling, simulation and validation of 3D printing processes.
Biohybrid Microsystems
- Cell based micro robotics.
- Bioengineered neuromuscular junctions.
Biofabrication
Computer-aided cell arrangement to create 3D tissue structures for medicine and pharma
- Institute
- Institute for Medical Engineering and Medical Informatics
Review and commission activities
Journal reviewer
- Nanotechnology (IOP)
- Advanced Biosystems (Wiley)
- Sensors and Actuators (IEEE)
Memberships
International conferences member
- IEEE NEMS TCP Member
- EURAXESS EU researcher meeting Tokyo (Co-Chair)
Awards
- FP7 Marie-Curie IOF Award
- EPFL Best Material Science Master Thesis Award (as supervisor)
- TEDx Freiburg Fellow
Teaching
Teaching activity
Bachelor
- Lecturer, “Manufacturing Processes,” FHNW.
- Lecturer, “Hardware-Oriented Software Development,” FHNW.
- Physics Laboratory Course.
- Project Work, MI.
Master
- Lecturer, “Biofabrication and Biohybrid Systems,” FHNW.
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