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M.A. Holzreuter (Muriel)

PhD Candidate

About Me

I obtained my Bachelor in Health Science and Technology as well as my Master in Biomedical Engineering from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. During my Master, I did a five months research internship in at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden working on a 3D-printed platform for studying networks of neurons in co-culture with astrocytes.  I then proceeded to conduct my Master thesis on a blood-brain barrier on chip with integrated electrodes in the BIOS group at the University of Twente. In this thesis, I found my passion, and I was very excited to be offered the opportunity to continue in this line of research during a PhD in the BIOS Lab on Chip group.

Research

During my PhD I will be working on improving the design of integrated electrodes in organs-on-chip for the assessment of the transendothelial electrical resistance, a measure for the tightness of biological barriers. More specifically, I will be investigating how these organs-on-chip can be designed in a way that allows for the determination of TEER while replicating the physiological environment more closely than the current standard sandwich chip design.

Contact Details

Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Carré (building no. 15), room 3405
Hallenweg 21
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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Mailing Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Carré  3405
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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