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Laura Rijns
Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemical Engineering
BioDr. Laura Rijns was born in the Netherlands (Nov 10, 1996) and is currently a postdoc at Stanford University with prof. Zhenan Bao in close collaboration with prof. Karl Deisseroth, focussed on improving the communication between electronic materials and living tissue. Control on the cellular side (through genetic modification) is combined with control on the material side (through molecular engineering) to manipulate neural circuit activity both in-vitro in living neurons and in-vivo in living animals.
Laura obtained her PhD (2023) in Biomedical Engineering “cum laude” from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) with prof. Patricia Dankers and prof. E.W. (Bert) Meijer. Supramolecular hydrogels as mimics of the extracellular matrix were developed for cell and organoid culture.
Prior to graduate school, Laura received her BSc (2017) and MSc (2019) in Biomedical Engineering at TU/e in the lab of prof. E.W. (Bert) Meijer, focused on supramolecular assemblies. During her undergraduate studies, she was the Lab Captain of the iGEM TU/e 2016 team, studying regulatable scaffold proteins. In 2017, she worked at UC Santa Barbara in the group of prof. Songi Han, studying liquid-liquid phase separated coacervate polymers. In 2019 and 2023, she worked at EPFL (Switzerland) with prof. Maartje Bastings, studying multivalent interactions using DNA origami. -
Elizabeth Sattely
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
BioPlants have an extraordinary capacity to harvest atmospheric CO2 and sunlight for the production of energy-rich biopolymers, clinically used drugs, and other biologically active small molecules. The metabolic pathways that produce these compounds are key to developing sustainable biofuel feedstocks, protecting crops from pathogens, and discovering new natural-product based therapeutics for human disease. These applications motivate us to find new ways to elucidate and engineer plant metabolism. We use a multidisciplinary approach combining chemistry, enzymology, genetics, and metabolomics to tackle problems that include new methods for delignification of lignocellulosic biomass and the engineering of plant antibiotic biosynthesis.
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Johanna Schroeder
Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemical Engineering
BioSince July 2023: Postdoc.Mobility Fellow of Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
April 2022 - June 2023: Postdic Fellow of German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina -
Alay Shah
Masters Student in Chemical Engineering, admitted Spring 2024
Bio→ HCP Graduate Chemical Engineering part time student. Full time Process Engineer at Kite, a Gilead Company.
→ Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin.
→ 5 years of experience working in cGMP pharmaceutical manufacturing and upstream process development. Working knowledge of cell and gene therapy, lean manufacturing, risk assessment &mitigation, IOPQ Validation, quality systems, eQRMS, asset lifecycle management, SAP ERP, Syncade MES, Oracle EBS, LIMS, ISO standards and FDA regulations.
→ Through Stanford's MS program, I aim to build upon my biomanufacturing experience, further developing my skillsets in bioreactor design and data analytics to model and improve standardized development of therapeutics for patients -
Eric S.G. Shaqfeh
Lester Levi Carter Professor and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI have over 25 years experience in theoretical and computational research related to complex fluids following my PhD in 1986. This includes work in suspension mechanics of rigid partlcles (rods), solution mechanics of polymers and most recently suspensions of vesicles, capsules and mixtures of these with rigid particles. My research group is internationally known for pioneering work in all these areas.
