Welcome Deb and Maria, starting in September 2022

Dr Mr Debkalpa (Deb) Goswami, Postdoc

• Latest projects:
  o Implantable soft robotic actuators for therapy delivery
  o Intra-oral device for treating obstructive sleep apnea
  o Soft robotic delivery of bioprinted patient-specific left atrial appendage occluders
  
• Grants: Marie Curie Individual Fellowship for the University of Glasgow (declined); Purdue Summer Research Grant (twice) and Ross Graduate Fellowship at Purdue University to top PhD students
  
• Postdoc at MIT, USA Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Therapeutic Technology Design and Development Lab (Prof. Ellen T. Roche)
  
• PhD in Industrial Engineering on the “Design and Manufacturing of Flexible Optical and Mechanical Metamaterials” from Purdue University, USA
  
• BEng in Production Engineering on “Multi-objective optimization of electrochemical discharge machining: a posteriori approach based on bird mating algorithm“ from Jadavpur University in India
  
• During Bachelor‘s: Erasmus exchange for 10 months at University of Bremen, Germany

Ms Maria Papaefstathiou, PhD student

• Latest projects:
  o degradation rate of biodegradable materials
  o environmental fate and toxicity of nanomaterials/plastics
  
• Grants: Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship 3-year grant recipient for her PhD at ETH Zurich for the production and characterization of a biodegradable, conductive and stretchable smart textile
  
• MSc with Honours in Biomedical Engineering, Department of BioEngineering, specializing in Biomechanics from Imperial College London, UK
  
• MEng with Honours in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of Cyprus, Cyprus