Welcome Ebrahim Yarali, freshly appointed PhD student in my group in collaboration with the Department of Biomechanical Engineering!

His project will be focused on the development of novel nanostructured bio-mimetic meta-implants for bone tissue replacement.

Nastaran Barin, PME Master Student, joined our team!

She will develop a graduation project on 3D engineered tumoral microenvironments for the study of primary and patient-derived glioblastoma cells in collaboration with ErasmusMC.

Welcome Nastaran!

The chapter Nanoscaffolds for Neural Regenerative Medicine, part of the book Neural Regenerative Nanomedicine has been published!

A nice collaboration with expert colleagues in the field!

Excited to chair with Dr. Paul Wieringa a symposium on Strategies for the realization of biomimetic neuronal microenvironments at the 6th World Congress of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS2021) taking place in Maastricht next year!

Qais Akolawala, PME Master Student, joined our team!

He will develop a graduation project on 3D microenvironments for glioblastoma proton radiobiology studies in collaboration with LUMC and the HollandPTC.

Welcome Qais!

I am very excited to announce that, together with Miguel Bessa, Deepesh Toshniwal and David Tax, I will be co-leading MACHINA (Machine Intelligence Advances for Materials), one of the eight interdisciplinary TU Delft AI Labs. The aim of MACHINA is to discover new materials and structures by bridging the gap between machine learning developers and practitioners.

4 PhD positions are available in the lab, among which one is focused on the Development of 4D Shape-Morphing Neuronal Scaffolds by Two-photon Polymerization and Machine Learning.

Congratulations to Saleh Aghajani, PME-MNE section PhD student that I am co-supervising, for his first author's paper entitled Aerosol Direct Writing and Thermal Tuning of Copper Nanoparticle Patterns as Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Sensors just appeared in ACS Applied Nano Materials!

Welcome Ahmed Sharaf, freshly appointed PhD student in my group!

His project will be focused on Light-assisted 3D manufacturing of neuronal microenvironments.

Brian Roos, PME Master Student, joined our team!

He will develop a graduation project on 3D microglia-on-chip in collaboration with the Biomedical Primate Research Center (BPRC).

Welcome Brian!

First oral presentation of our visiting MSc student Beatriz Costa at the hDMT (human Organ and Disease Model Technologies) international meeting!

Good job Beatriz!

Excited and honored to have been awarded a Cohesion Grant of 200 k€ from Sectorplan funding, together with Dr. Mohammad J. Mirzaali! This project will allow us to develop novel nanostructured 3D scaffolds by combining advanced mechanical engineering designs and light-assisted 3D micro-manufacturing. Please have a look at the available PhD position.

I am very honored to be the recipient of the 1 Place grant of the TU Delft Health Initiative Pilot Projects call. Within this project, involving a strong synergy between TU Delft and the Holland Proton Therapy Center, we will start to explore the development of 3D Onco-Scaffolds as a benchmark tool for Proton Radiobiology.

Dian Veldkamp, PME Master Student, joined our team!

She will develop a graduation project on 3D fabrication and 3D imaging of engineered micro-environments for guiding the fate of neural stem cells.

Welcome Dian!

The first paper of my professorship at TU Delft is out: "Engineered 3D Polymer and Hydrogel Microenvironments for Cell Culture Applications". (Open Access Review article)

Also, the first PhD position in my group on "Light-assisted 3D manufacturing of neuronal microenvironments" is now open for applications. (Deadline 15/1/2020)

Giving a talk in Utrecht on Multi-scale engineered cell microenvironments by laser-assisted additive manufacturing at the International MicroNanoConference 2019.

The Special Issue 3D Microfabrication Unleashed: Emerging Applications and New Manufacturing Concepts in Micromachines Journal is open for submissions!

Excited to have joined the Brain-on-chip group, part of the human Organ and Disease Model Technologies (hDMT) consortium.

Keynote Lecture entitled To scaffold or not to scaffold: pros and cons in the realization of biomimetic neuronal microenvironments at the Symposium Bioinspired and Biointegrated Materials as New Frontiers Nanomaterial that I am honored to chair during the 2019 E-MRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw.

Beatriz Costa, visiting Master Student from University of Minho (Portugal), is the first member of my team!

She will work on 3D fabrication and mechanical characterization of polymeric/hydrogel scaffolds.

Welcome Beatriz!

I officially joined TU Delft within the Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering (PME) as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Soft Micro- and Nanosystem Technology for Life Sciences and Biology!

Excited to start this challenging adventure and set up my new lab!