Since 1 November 2016, we have a new PhD candidate in the group: Eriola-Sophia Shanko! 

Sophia got her BSc from the University of Applied Sciences of Piraeus, Greece, and then did a joint International Master on Smart Systems Integration (microtechnology) at various universities: Heriot-Watt University (Scotland), Vestfold & Buskerud University College (Norway), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary), and ETH Zurich- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Switzerland). The topic of her MSc thesis was: "Steps towards antibiotic susceptibility testing microfluidic chips”.

In our group, she will do research in the project "Magnetic control of micro-particles and integrated micro-actuators for high precision handheld diagnostics”, which is done in collaboration with Philips. It is great to see her eagerness to start her research, and we wish her a lot of fun and success!