El miércoles 6 de mayo, a las 12.30h., en el Seminario del I3A (edificio I+D, bloque 5, 2ª planta), tendrá lugar el seminario Microfluidic technologies enabling novel biomedical applications, impartido por Jacob den Toonder (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).
Esta actividad está organizada por el grupo Microentorno Tisular o Tissue MicroEnvironment (TME) del I3A.
Bio: Jaap den Toonder is full professor and chair of the Microsystems section at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) since 20213. He received his master's degree in applied mathematics (cum laude), and his PhD degree in mechanical engineering (cum laude), both from Delft University of Technology. Before joining TU/e, he worked at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven as principal scientist and chief technologist.
The mission of Jaap’s research is to “make things work at small scales” through creative technical-scientific research, by developing smart materials, innovative technological concepts, and microfabrication methods for microsystems, to enable novel applications often in the health and wellbeing domain. The application focus is on microfluidic chips, organ-on-chip, biomedical microdevices, and soft microrobotics.
Jaap has (co-)authored over 180 scientific papers, as well as over 60 patents, and he has given more than 65 invited lectures at international conferences. He is scientific advisor of six companies that spun off from his group. Jaap has founded and directs the Microfab/lab: a state‐of‐the‐art facility at TU/e that encompasses a unique set of many techniques needed to create and analyze microfluidic devices and microsystems including biological materials. He teaches courses on microfabrication methods and microfluidics, in which hands-on learning is a key element. Jaap is recipient of two ERC Advanced Grants, in 2019 and in 2025. He is Fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering since 2023