Education and Experience

Current Position

Biomimetic Microsystems - Organ-on-a-chip - The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston - USA

                       

Professional employment

June 2007- July 2013:      Researcher and Director of Research at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain) 

•     Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Nanobioengineering and Bioanalysis Group, Universitat Rovira IVirgili (Tarragona, Spain) lead by Dr. Ciara O’Sullivan.

•    Project leader of MIRACLE (http://www.miracle-fp7.eu/), looking at the multiplexed electrochemical detection of genetic markers involved in breast and prostate cancers, from the design and fabrication of electrode microarrays and associated assays to the development of novel surface chemistry, polymer-DNA hybrids and microfluidic designs. 
• RG Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. (Contract 256395) 
• IEF Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. (Contract 221198)

May 2005-June 2007:              Project leader/Research Scientist at Sphere Medical Ltd,
                                                 Cambridge, UK

Sept. 2004 – March 2005:       Research assistant, Cranfield University, UK

January - September 2001:      GSK, R&D, Ware, UK. Extractives Analytical Chemist    


Academic education

2001- 2004:     Cranfield University at Silsoe – Institute of BioScience and Technology (Silsoe, UK) –

                        PhD studies (supervisors: Prof. D. C. Cullen, Prof. S.A. Piletsky)

       
                  Thesis: “Robust Biomimetic Molecular Sensor Array for Astrobiology Applications” 
                 

                                                                         

1999-2000:      University of Manchester Institute of Technology DIAS (UMIST, Manchester, UK)     

                        MSc in Instrumentation and Analytical Science – Bioanalytical and Biomedical 
                        Measurements. 

                  Dissertation: “Micromachined instrumentation: mixing strategies”
                  Supervisor: Prof.P. Fielden

1997-1999:      Kingston University - BSc Honours degree in Applied Chemistry (Kingston upon
                        Thames, UK)

                   
                  Dissertation:“Synthesis of new intermediates of heterocyclic enzyme inhibitors”
                  Supervisor: Dr. S. Ahmed

1995-1997:      DUT Physical Measurements - Lannion (France, 22)
                        Equivalent to "B.Eng. Chemical Engineering and Applied Physics"

                 Dissertation: “Lactonisation and characterisation of diacids in strong acidic medium by FT 
                 NMR 400 MHz” - UMR 0175 CNRS/MNHM (France), Dr. A. Valla