Biography

Janire Saez Castaño studied chemistry at Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) and completed her Master in Pharmacology in the Department of Analytical Chemistry in 2013. In 2014 she started as a PhD student at CIC microGUNE a Research Centre working in Microtechnology in Spain. From 2015 she is a PhD student in the microfluidics group at the UPV/EHU working in the integration of smart materials into microfluidic devices within the FP7 European Project NAPES.

http://www.napes.eu/

Research

Her research interest focuses on the integration of thermoresponsive, photoresposvive and biocompatible smart materials as microvalves or membranes in environmentally friendly microfluidic devices.

Publications:

1- On-demand Generation and Removal of Alginate Biocompatible Microvalves for Flow Control in Microfluidics, J. Saez, J. Etxebarria, M. Antoñana-Diez, F. Benito-Lopez, 2016, Sens. Actuators B, DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2016.04.116