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PhD candidate Jia-Jun Yeh wins an Outstanding Young Researcher award at TRANSDUCERS 2025

• Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Last week in Orlando, Florida, Jia-Jun Yeh, PhD candidate at ECTM, received one of the Outstanding Young Researcher awards at the 23rd International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS 2025) for her work entitled "Integrated microfluidic tissue barrier sensor module for a standardized and modular organ-on-chip platform".

Jia-Jun's work is the result of a close collaboration between Delft University of Technology (supervised by Massimo Mastrangeli) and Eindhoven University of Technology (Jaap den Toonder), with valuable contributions from partners at the University of Twente and Wageningen University & Research. The joint effort is part of the Perspectief Program SMART Organ-on-Chip (OoC) and the NWA-ORC LymphChip project, which support and strengthen this interdisciplinary research.

Ata Golparvar Receives SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Monday, 30 June 2025

Ata Golparvar, postdoctoral researcher at ECTM under supervisin of Dr. Clémentine Boutry, has been awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)'s Postdoctoral Fellowship to extend his residence at ECTM and develop Transient Biophotonic Implants. The three-year fellowship includes the possibility of a one-year return phase to EPFL/ETH.

With this funding, Ata will explore new approaches to help shift healthcare from reactive treatment toward proactive, pre-symptomatic diagnosis. Realizing this goal requires continuous access to molecular information within the body. To address this need, Ata is developing a new class of transient molecular implants capable of wireless, passive, and label-free biosensing. These implants are designed to safely biodegrade after use, eliminating the need for surgical removal to enable “insert & forget” approach to biosensing, particularly beneficial in post-operative care.

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Seeing the brain in action with mobile ultrasound

• Tuesday, 24 June 2025

In the news: Science Advances article by Pieter Kruizinga, with Bori Hunyadi (SPS)

Startup Innatera covered in IEEE Spectrum

• Wednesday, 11 June 2025

SPS Startup Innatera has recently launched Pulsar, a new Spiking Neural Network chip based on neuromorphic computing, that promises ultralow-power AI sensor applications in consumer, industrial, and IoT settings. 

The news was covered by IEEE Spectrum. They write:

Innatera’s Pulsar chip revolutionizes edge AI with brain-inspired spiking neural networks, delivering up to 500× lower power use and 100× faster response. Its hybrid analog-digital design enables ultra-efficient, real-time processing—paving the way for smarter, energy-conscious sensors and devices worldwide.