Honorary lecture : In the small world of microfluidics
Event details
| Date | 27.02.2023 |
| Hour | 17:15 › 18:15 |
| Speaker | Prof Philippe Renaud |
| Location | |
| Category | Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture |
| Event Language | French |
Abstract
The last three decades have seen the emergence of microtechnologies that are now the basis for the production of billions of microsensors found in smartphones or cars. But these technologies have also paved the way for other miniaturized systems for biological and medical applications. This lecture invites you on a journey into this small world that I have been exploring with my research group, particularly that of microfluidics. I will discuss some aspects of the physics of miniaturization and show you some examples of applications. I will conclude my talk with some personal thoughts on interdisciplinary research and knowledge transfer.
Biography
After graduating in theoretical physics from the University of Neuchâtel, Philippe Renaud obtained his PhD in experimental physics on magnetism at the University of Lausanne in 1988, under the supervision of Professor S. Steinemann. He then did a postdoc at Berkeley, before joining H. Rohrer's group at the IBM Laboratory in Zurich, where he studied magnetic and optoelectronic effects with tunneling microscopes. He then joined the CSEM in Neuchâtel. In 1994, he was appointed assistant professor, and later promoted to full professor, at the Department of Microtechnology of EPFL where he developed a research program on microsystem technologies and applications in sensors, bioelectronics and microfluidics. Philippe Renaud contributed to the creation of the CMi, a large clean room infrastructure at EPFL for research in micro- and nanotechnology.
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The last three decades have seen the emergence of microtechnologies that are now the basis for the production of billions of microsensors found in smartphones or cars. But these technologies have also paved the way for other miniaturized systems for biological and medical applications. This lecture invites you on a journey into this small world that I have been exploring with my research group, particularly that of microfluidics. I will discuss some aspects of the physics of miniaturization and show you some examples of applications. I will conclude my talk with some personal thoughts on interdisciplinary research and knowledge transfer.
Biography
After graduating in theoretical physics from the University of Neuchâtel, Philippe Renaud obtained his PhD in experimental physics on magnetism at the University of Lausanne in 1988, under the supervision of Professor S. Steinemann. He then did a postdoc at Berkeley, before joining H. Rohrer's group at the IBM Laboratory in Zurich, where he studied magnetic and optoelectronic effects with tunneling microscopes. He then joined the CSEM in Neuchâtel. In 1994, he was appointed assistant professor, and later promoted to full professor, at the Department of Microtechnology of EPFL where he developed a research program on microsystem technologies and applications in sensors, bioelectronics and microfluidics. Philippe Renaud contributed to the creation of the CMi, a large clean room infrastructure at EPFL for research in micro- and nanotechnology.
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- Faculté STI – Décanat & Institut IEM