Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Baig, MMFA is a registered Pharmacist and did a PhD in Chemistry. His recent research interest is designing nanomaterials for Biomedical Engineering, Mechano Pharmacology, Developmental Biology, Structural Biology,and Neuroscience. He got his post-doctoral training in Nanomedicine at the Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong. His postdoctoral work was focused on designing DNA-based functional & bio-active nanomaterials to apply in Restorative Dentistry, Oral Microbiology/ Oncology,Regenerative Therapeutics, Stem Cells Research, Drug Delivery, and Molecular Pharmaceutics. He got a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry (Therapeutical Biochemistry) from the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University (NJU), China. During his Ph.D., he worked on DNA Nanotechnology, Nano-Therapeutics, Biosensing, Bio-imaging, Diagnostics, and Cellular Biophysics. Previously, He received his Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) and MPhil (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) degrees from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, Pakistan; where he learned about Biochemistry, Phytochemistry, Pharmacognosy, Biotechnology, Polymers, Organic, Medicinal, Bio-analytical, and Material Chemistry.

Nadeem Qaiser was student at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Wei Liu was a student of Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.

Ellen Bold received her diploma in 2021 from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. Since 2021, she is PhD student in the working group “Physics and Technology of Nanostructures” at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.

Born in Nantong, Jiangsu, in 1963 Xu Lei studied ink painting at the Department of Fine Arts of Nanjing Art Academy and used to be a professional painter affiliated with the Jiangsu Institute of Chinese Painting. ... Xu was an active participant in the innovative art movements in China in the late 1980's.

Hamid Sadabadi is an entrepreneur and researcher in the field of Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-chip and sensors/biosensors. He has completed his PhD in microfluidic from Concordia University in Montreal. ... He is the currently CTO of Wireless Fluidics, a sensing technology development start-up.

Dr Jean-Christophe P. Gabriel is one of CEA’s Research Director, the highest research position in CEA, in the field of Nanoscience. He is also currently a visiting Professor at NTU where he serves as co-director of the NTU Singapore CEA Alliance for Research in Circular Economy (SCARCE). He first joined the French Alternative Energy and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in 2007. There, he was CEA/LETI institute’s “Beyond CMOS” program manager as well as the business director of the academic- industry Caltech – LETI alliance, which led to the creation of the Startup Apix Technology (apixanalytics.com). From 2009 to 2016, he became deputy director of CEA’s Nanoscience program (budget: 1 M€/year). In parallel, from 2013 to 2018, he was co-principal investigator of the REE-CYCLE advanced ERC project (2013-2018), that aimed at developing new rare earth extraction/recycling processes, at least 10 times more efficient that current liquid-liquid extraction processes. In this REE-CYCLE laboratory in Grenoble, created in 2014, he was developing integrated microfluidic lab-on-chip that enable much faster exploration of multidimensional phase diagrams of complex fluids. Such lab-on-chip devices integrate various sensors as well as characterizations methods (such as FTIR in hollow waveguides, or Xray fluorescence).

Former student at the “Ecole Normale Supérieure” in Paris, he received his Ph. D. from Orsay’s University and his Habilitation from Joseph Fourier’s University in Grenoble. His career is a mixed academic – industrial one. He indeed started his career at CNRS (4 years at Jean Rouxel Institute, IMN, Nantes) followed by 6 years in the Californian startup Nanomix (nano.com) where he was one of the first employee. In this Berkeley spinoff he helped in the technology transfer of nanomaterials and carbon nanotubes technologies, helped raised $34 million of venture capital money and with his team was the first to put an integrated nanotube based electronic device on the market (a hydrogen sensor, in 2005).

Dr Jean-Christophe has published more than 60 papers in international peer reviewed journal and is co-inventor on more than 50 patents and patent applications, many of them dealing with nanomaterials, carbon nanotubes and graphene (~8400 citations). 

Dr. Alexander Govyadinov has over 30 years of experience in various sensing platform development in academic and R&D industrial environments. Recent 14 years Alex works for Hewlett-Packard Printing, and after The Company split for HP Inc. in the Advanced Technology and Product Development Organization developing novel sensing and microfluidic solutions for inkjet applications. He is co-author of more than 100 publications and over 80 US Patents and patent applications.

Maria Kalli is a 2nd year PhD candidate, focusing on the effect of surfactants in microfluidic devices. She has been a long term UCL lover as she graduated with a first in MEng Chemical Engineering in 2018. She is a foodie (since day 1) and loves playing and listening to good music at gigs/concerts.

Farah is an associate in the Firm's Dubai office. Farah is a corporate lawyer with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and restructurings, as well as general corporate and compliance matters. Farah is qualified in England & Wales.

Amer Charbaji is a research assistant at the Microfluidics Laboratory at the University of Rhode Island where he is currently pursuing his PhD. His research work includes developing paper-based microfluidic devices for nutrient detection in marine environments. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the American University of Beirut and his Master of Science degree from the University of Maryland at College Park, both in mechanical engineering. He also worked in the industry in Nigeria and Dubai before joining the PhD program at URI.

Dr. Xing Yue (Larry) Peng is currently a professor in the Biology Department of Xiamen University. His research interest is focusing on microfluidic devices for real-world applications.

Daniel Corbett is a British broadcast meteorologist, who worked for the Met Office and the BBC for many years until May 2011. He first joined the Met Office and BBC Weather Centre in 1997, after beginning his career in the United States. In May 2011, Corbett made his final BBC weather report prior to taking up a new post in New Zealand with the MetService. Corbett is particularly popular with television viewers because of his enthusiastic weather presentations and his humorous slogans.

Jack Merrin earned his BA in physics with a minor in mathematics from Columbia University in 1998. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 2006 in physics. Jack currently specializes in physics and biological applications of microfluidics at IST Austria.