Biography

Maite studied Biotechnology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and obtained her degree in 2015. In 2016, she finished her Master Degree in Forensic Analysis at the same university. She was PhD candidate at the Microfluidic Cluster UPV/EHU.

Maite defended her thesis the 25/05/2021.

Research

Development and integration of functional materials in microfluidic devices to be used as biosensors and actuators. Polymeric novel functional materials such as ionogels or macromolecules like proteins can be patterned and integrated via surface engineering techniques within microfluidic devices to be used as biosensors for diagnosis, drug screening and basic research in cellular biology, among others. The pattern and integration of the sensors into chips lead to miniaturized devices, enabling high throughput and point of care analysis, driving us closer to personalised medicine. The different patternings displayed in the picture show the versatility of these techniques, that enable to precisely control of the size, shape and position of the sensing or actuating domains on a surface.