Nils Paust's Biography

Nils Paust, Head of Division Microfluidic Platforms, Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft für Angewandte Forschung eV

PD Dr Nils Paust has a background in energy and process engineering. He received his PhD on the topic of micro fuel cells at the University of Freiburg in 2010. In February 2010, he joined the lab-on-chip research activities at Hahn-Schickard in Freiburg, first as a group leader, then as head of division microfluidic platforms and nowadays as an executive board member of Hahn-Schickard. In 2020, he completed his habilitation and co-founded the Dermagnostix GmbH in 2021. Main research interest of Nils Paust is the centrifugal microfluidic system integration. This comprises new microfluidic functionalities, cost-efficient mass fabrication of microfluidic chips and the implementation of complete laboratory workflows on centrifugal microfluidic platforms.