People
Training opportunities in microsystems for precision medicine - looking for qualified pre-doctoral and post-doctoral researchers (positions available)
Work with world renowned research group in microfluidics specializing in electrically driven separation and measurement systems
Team Members
Carlos Honrado
Research Scientist
Carlos Honrado is a Research Scientist focused on phenotypic analysis using single-cell impedance cytometry, specializing in data modeling and analytic approaches.
Walter Varhue
Research Scientist
Walter Varhue is a Research Scientist at the Center for Advanced Biomanufacturing (CAD-Bio) focused on microfluidic biofabrication approaches for building in vitro disease models.
He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia and his undergraduate degree from University of Vermont.
He has developed biofabrication approaches to engineer cellular microenvironments and microfluidic devices for separation and cytometry.
He is a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).
Yi Liu
Research Scientist
Yi Liu is a Research Scientist focused on the development of biofabricated nanoconfined platforms for biosensing.
His research has advanced the areas of biomaterial redox capacitors...
Karina Torres
Ph.D. Student
Karina Torres is a Ph.D. student at University of Virginia’s Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
She received her B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Costa Rica and her M.S. in MEMS from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology.
Her areas of research interest are microfluidics, microfabrication and electrokinetics for lab-on-chip applications.
She is also interested in new ways of harnessing energy from biological entities and bio-inspired soft-robots.
Karina is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).
Vahid Farmehini
Ph.D. Student
Vahid is a Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, with research interests centered on the application of analog electronic circuits for electrical stimulation and signal transduction within bio-analytical microdevices.
His key contributions have been in the development of wideband amplifiers for frequency-selective particle enrichment by electrode-less dielectrophoresis, impedance-based measurement of cells during microfluidic manipulation, circuit designs for electrical stimulation with electromyography for measuring muscle regeneration and circuits to enable portable systems for forensic analysis in resource-poor settings.
He completed his BS and MS degrees in Electronics at Sharif University in Iran.
Aditya Rane
Ph.D. Student
Aditya Rane is a Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, with research interests centered on microfluidic biofabrication and single-cell analysis.
His key contributions have been in microfluidic single-cell methods to study immune cell activation and for migration assays of glioma cells