Ines AntunesScience Coordinator, European Space Agency (ESA) I have graduated in Bioengineering in Portugal and completed my masters in collaboration with TU Delft in The Netherlands. After that I joined the Space business in ESA and also in Airbus, initially working in Space Operations to ultimately end in the ESA Directorate of Human and Robotic Exploration Programmes, coordinating ESA research in Life Sciences and more specifically research in humans. In my current position I work with a large scientific community distributed worldwide in many fields of human and health research and collaborate with NASA, JAXA, CSA, IBMP and European National Space Agencies to enable human space exploration while bringing the benefits of our research endeavors back to earth applications. |
Lucia CiglarScientist, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) Lucia Ciglar is a scientist specializing in the discovery and validation of circulating biomarkers within the Molecular Diagnostics unit at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Vienna. With a Ph.D. in molecular biology and expertise in functional genomics, her current research focuses particularly on EV-derived miRNAs and multi-omics approaches in liquid biopsies. The Biomarker group at AIT has a profound expertise in developing and implementing high throughput multi-omics technologies. This includes utilizing DNA- and protein microarrays, next-generation sequencing (NGS), microfluidic quantitative PCR, and multiplex bead technology to comprehensively characterize complex diseases. AIT actively collaborates as a partner and WP leader in ImmUniverse, a large EU-wide effort dedicated to identifying circulating signatures for atopic dermatitis and ulcerative colitis. |
Nicole PammeProfessor in Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University Prof. Nicole Pamme holds a chair in Analytical Chemistry at Stockholm University in the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry and she is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Hull (UK) in the Department of Chemistry. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Her research activities focus on Lab-on-a-Chip devices for pharmaceutical, clinical and environmental analysis, biomedical research with tissue-on-a-chip devices as well as process integration and material synthesis in collaboration with Chemistry, Engineering and Biomedical Sciences. She has authored >150 peer reviewed publications, patents and book chapters in this area. Prof. Pamme has served on the programme committee of the microTAS conference and chaired the microTAS 2016 conference in Dublin. She served on the Board of Directors of the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS) including as President (2019-21). Nicole is an Associate Editor for the Analyst (RSC Publishing) and serves on the editorial advisory boards of Lab on a Chip (RSC Publishing), Analytical Chemistry (ACS Publications) and Analytica Chimica Acta (Elsevier). Her teaching activities include lectures on microanalytical and forensic chemistry, biosensors and separation science; Nicole has also co-authored a textbook for UG students on Bioanalytical Chemistry, now in its second edition. |
