Congratulation Daniel and welcome to the Microfluidics Cluster UPV/EHU.

Daniel Patko just got one of the prestigious Marie-Skłodowska Curie Fellowships to join our research team at UPV/EHU.  He will work on RhizoSheet project, which aims to apply cutting-edge microfluidic techniques based on hybrid paper-polymer technology for plants. Optical sensors and novel functional materials will be applied as biochemical sensors to gain knowledge on the location of compounds secreted by roots and on the response of roots over time when interacting with soil microbes.

Short Boigraphy of Daniel:

I obtained my biophysicist MSc degree from the University of Szeged (Szeged, Hungary) in 2010 and I received my PhD from the University of Pannonia (Veszprém, Hungary) in 2016. During my diploma and PhD research I worked in the field of label-free optical waveguide based biosensors.

After I received my PhD certificate, I started to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Sensoils group at The James Hutton Institute (Dundee, UK, Scotland). As a postdoctoral researcher I changed my research field from biosensors to microscopy and plant science. At The James Hutton Institute my job was to design and build a Light Sheet Microscope to observe root-soil-microbe interactions in a transparent soil environment. I also developed a growth chamber system with fluidics to maintain the growth conditions for the plants.

In 2020 our group moved from Scotland to the Basque Country and I continued my work at NEIKER (Derio, Spain). After finishing my current job I am going to join the Microfluidics Cluster at the UPV/EHU as a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Fellow.

All member of the Cluster are looking forward to enjoy science with you!