Our Team

Meet the team of experts

Prof. Dr Simone Schürle Finke

Principal Investigator

Dr. Michael Christiansen

Senior Scientist

Esther Ravelhofer-Alge

Administrative Assistant

Dr. Claire Schirmer

Lab Manager

Dr. Nathan Blanken

Postdoctoral Researcher

Microbubble Physics, Acoustics

Dr. Lucia Giulia Brunel

Postdoctoral Researcher

Acoustic Gels, Microrobotics, Drug Delivery

Dr. Johannes Büchler

Postdoctoral Researcher

Chemical Biology, Biological Chemistry, Bioinformatics

Dr. Joshua Mesfin

Postdoctoral Researcher

Translational Research, Biomaterials

Dr. Myungjin Park

Postdoctoral Researcher

Electromagnetism, Micro/nanorobotics

Dr. Yimo Yan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Microrobotics, Microfluidics

Emilie Einsiedel

PhD Student

Magnetic Microrollers for Drug Delivery, Microfluidics

Tim Grossrieder

PhD Student

Robotics, Control, Electromagnetism

Ping Shu Ho

PhD Student

Simulation Framework, Machine Learning

Fan Li

PhD Student

Protease, Biosensing

Ines Oberhuber

PhD Student

Chemistry, (Molecular) Imaging, Biomedical Engineering

Pascal Poc

PhD Student

Chemical Biology

Lisa Regazzoni

PhD Student

Living therapeutics, MNPs synthesis, Magnetic control

Francesca Toffanello

PhD Student

Magnetic and Magnetoelectric Nanomaterials

Elena Totter

PhD Student

Living Therapeutics, Magnetic Control

Lena Dysli

Master Student

Project: Incorporation of TEER sensors for assessment of cell barrier integrity in vessel-on-a-chip models

Nisha Gehl Sampath

Master Student

Project: Evaluation of retention and translocation of magnetic microrobots

Bilal Korkut

Master Student

Project: FRESH-Bioprinting for the fabrication of responsive hydrogels

Beatrice Kwan

Semester Student

Project: EndoX V2: An Interactive GPU-accelerated Endoscopic Ultrasound Simulator

Reah Morar

Master Student

Project: Effect of hydrogel stiffness on nanodroplet acoustic behavior