Our Team

Meet the team of experts

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Prof. Dr Simone Schürle Finke

Principal Investigator
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Dr. Claire Schirmer

Laboratory Technician
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Dr. Michael Christiansen

Senior Scientist
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Dr. Johannes Büchler

Post Doctoral Scientist

Chemical Biology, Biological Chemistry, Bioinformatics

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Elena Totter

PhD Student

Living Therapeutics, Magnetic Control

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Yimo Yan

Post Doctoral Scientist

Microrobotics, Microfluidics

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Fan Li

PhD Student

Protease, Biosensing

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Pascal Poc

PhD Student

Chemical Biology

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Ines Oberhuber

PhD Student

Chemistry, (Molecular) Imaging, Biomedical Engineering

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Tim Grossrieder

PhD Student

Robotics, Control, Electromagnetism

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Emilie Einsiedel

PhD Student

Magnetic Microrollers for Drug Delivery, Microfluidics

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Francesca Toffanello

PhD Student

Magnetic and Magnetoelectric Nanomaterials

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Dr. Myungjin Park

Post Doctoral Scientist

Electromagnetism, Micro/nanorobotics

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Ping Shu Ho

PhD Student

Simulation Framework, Machine Learning

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Dr. Lucia G. Brunel

Post Doctoral Scientist

Acoustic Gels, Microrobotics, Drug Delivery

Josh Mesfin

Dr. Joshua Mesfin

Research partner

Translational Research, Biomaterials

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Gian-Andrea Burkard

Semester Student

Project: Characterization of the effect of different thrombolytic agents on in vitro microfluidics using engineered microrobots

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Lauren Ann Goralsky

Fulbright/EKSAS Scholarship Student
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Camilla Michelagnoli

Master Student

Project: Microfluidic models for magnetic nanocarrier synthesis and evaluation

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Antonia Schönert

Master Student

Project: Engineering immune-evasive surface coatings for bacterial-based biohybrid microrobots

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Raphael Menasce

Master Student

Project: Synthesis of new lipids for microbubbles

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Samira Dzambas

Master Student

Project: Engineering protease responsive ultrasound contrast agents for molecular imaging

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Bilal Korkut

Master Student

Project: Biofabrication of Acoustic- and Magnetic Hydrogels for Medical Applications

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Dr. Nathan Blanken

Post Doctoral Scientist

Microbubble Physics, Acoustics

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Lisa Regazzoni

PhD Student

Living therapeutics, MNPs synthesis, magnetic control

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Kaya Adwoa Forson

Master Student

Project: Analysis of strategies for chemical conjugation of nanoliposomal and magnetic cargo to biointerfaces and biohybrid microrobots

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Carina Frehen

Semester Student

Project: Enzymatic surface modification of lipid-based microbubbles with functional proteins

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Esther Ravelhofer-Alge

Administrative Assistant