Xu, Mengjia

Student project:

Constantly seeking motivated students to do the project (Master Thesis, Semester Project, Bachelor Thesis, Summer school) in the field of sensing and biosensing to study Pemphigus (an autoimmune disease) signaling pathways. Students from multidisciplinary backgrounds such as nanoscience, biology, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, material science or with the skills such as modeling and simulation, image processing and electronics, are highly welcomed.

You will have the opportunity to work with human primary skin cells and be involved in understanding the disease signaling pathways, which aim to optimize patients treatment finally.  If you are interested, just send me () an email briefly describing your background, skills and motivation. We can tune the project to fit your preference. 

Open projects currently published on Sirop website: 

1. Characterization and investigating 2D skin disease model via biosensing and optical imaging
2. Assembling an advanced high-speed SICM for live cell imaging.  
3. FluidFM-based nanoscale printing for wearable self-powering biomedical real time sensing

Summary: 

I finished my master thesis in 2021 with the topic of 3D printing at micro and nano scales by FluidFM at LBB. After graduating from the master program Micro and Nanosystems at ETH Zürich, I started my doctorate study applying FluidFM (microchanneled AFM), its adaptation e-FluidFM (FluidFM with electronics add-on) and other tools in the field of sensing and biosensing to study Pemphigus signaling pathways .

Research Interests:

• Surface topography study using FluidFM in SICM mode
• Surface charge sensing by FluidFM
• Electrophysiology measurements of single cells and tissue by FluidFM
• Biosensing using fluorescent dyes  
• High-speed SICM