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Women in Nanofabrication (WIN)
WIN Monthly Meetings
The WIN meetings were launched virtually through EIPBN Gather Town during EIPBN 2021 and are ongoing. Currently, we are hosting monthly ZOOM meetings on the first Friday of each month at 3:10 PM London time. They are open for all women and non-binary scientists interested in nanofabrication. Look below for a complete list of meeting dates and speakers.
Please contact Carla Perez Martinez at carla.perezmartinez@ucl.ac.uk if you want the link to attend or if you are interested in presenting a technical talk about your research.
The WIN Lecture Series is generously sponsored by Heidelberg Instruments.
WIN New Meeting Series Speakers
Meeting Location: Virtual Meeting
Time: 7:10 AM PST, 10:10 AM EST, 3:10 PM London, 10:10 PM Beijing
Please find the latest updates below
Meeting Date
February 6
Speaker 1
Simone Schuerle (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Bio: Simone Schuerle is an Associate Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where she heads the Medical Systems Lab. Her research focuses on developing diagnostic and therapeutic systems at the nano- and microscale to address challenging problems in medicine. Prior to joining ETH Zurich, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (2014–2017), where she worked on nanosensors for in vivo tumor profiling and wireless strategies to enhance drug transport.
She has received several awards and fellowships, including the Ernst Th. Jucker Prize for Cancer Research, the Prix Zonta for Women in Science, and fellowships from the SNSF, DAAD, and the Branco Weiss Foundation. In 2017, she was honored as a “Young Scientist” by the World Economic Forum. In 2014, she co-founded the spin-off MagnebotiX, which develops electromagnetic control systems for wireless micromanipulation. She earned her PhD in microrobotics from ETH Zurich in 2013 and was awarded the ETH Medal.
Title & Abstract
Title: Nanoengineering and control strategies for medical microrobots
Abstract: Addressing the challenges of site-specific diagnostics and localized therapy delivery remains a central goal in medicine. To meet this need, my laboratory develops medical microrobots that respond either to disease-specific biochemical cues or to non-invasive external stimuli, such as magnetic fields, enabling their functions to be focused at the site of disease.
In this presentation, I will discuss the design, nanoengineering, and control strategies underlying different classes of microrobots for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Emphasis will be placed on how nanomaterials and nanofabrication approaches enable control over microrobot functionality, responsiveness, and performance in complex biological environments.
Speaker 2
Emma Moonen (DXcrete and Eindhoven University of Technology)
Bio: Sim Emma Moonen is a postdoctoral researcher in the Microsystems Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her research focuses on microfabrication, microfluidics, point-of-care technologies, and wearable biosensing platforms, with a particular interest in sweat-based health monitoring. She obtained her BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from TU/e. During her studies, she worked on microsieve replication for single-cell trapping and on flexible transparent electrodes at the University of Cambridge. She completed her PhD cum laude at TU/e in 2024, where she developed a sweat sensing device based on discretized microfluidics for noninvasive health monitoring.
Title & Abstract
Title: Sweat sensing devices based on discretised microfluidics for noninvasive kidney function assessment
Abstract: Continuous health monitoring has traditionally been limited to vital signs, while biochemical biomarkers—crucial for assessing organ function such as kidney health—are predominantly measured through invasive and noncontinuous blood-based diagnostics. Blood-based approaches introduce delays, require actions from patients and/or healthcare workers, and are ill-suited for timely monitoring of rapidly changing physiological conditions. Sweat is an attractive alternative biofluid, as it can be sampled noninvasively and contains biomarkers relevant to renal function. However, the extremely low sweat rates encountered in resting individuals present a major challenge for conventional continuous-flow microfluidic sweat sensors, which require large sample volumes and long collection times. Here, we describe wearable sweat sensing devices based on discretised microfluidics that enable semicontinuous monitoring of kidney-related biomarkers from minute sweat volumes. By discretising sweat into individual droplets collected directly from sweat glands and actively transporting them using electrowetting-on-dielectrics (EWOD), the platform overcomes fundamental limitations of continuous microfluidic systems at low sweat rates. This approach allows timely biochemical analysis with high temporal resolution while minimising sample loss and contamination. Discretised microfluidic sweat sensing offers a promising pathway toward noninvasive, patient-friendly monitoring of kidney function, with potential applications in both clinical and at-home settings.
Meeting Date
March 6
Speaker
Title & Abstract
Title: At the Edge of Growth: Understanding the Saboteurs That Hold Brilliant Women Back
For you, as women working in nanofabrication, this means operating at the frontier of science, precision, visibility, and impact, and meanwhile many of you are navigating complex research environments, funding pressures, leadership expectations, and the subtle dynamics of being a woman in highly technical spaces.
And yet, when we are about to stretch – apply for a grant, step into leadership, publish boldly, or take a promotion – something inside can tighten. Perhaps for you it shows up as one, or more, of the following:
Second-guessing. Overworking. Over-preparing. Playing small. Avoiding visibility. Trying to get it ‘perfect.’
That voice is not a lack of competence. It is the voice of our Saboteurs.
In this interactive 50-minute session, Dr. Karen Buchanan, scientist-turned-leadership coach and one of the original Positive Intelligence® Pioneers will be introducing the science behind these internal patterns and why they reliably activate at moments of growth.
Together we will:
- Identify the Saboteurs most common among high-achieving women in technical fields
- Understand how these patterns are formed and why they are not personal flaws
- Explore how they hijack confidence, decision-making, and leadership presence
- Learn a few practical tools to shift from mental interference to clear, focused action
This session is evidence-informed, practical, and grounded in lived experience. It is not about ‘fixing’ yourself. It is about strengthening your mental fitness so that your capability can lead without internal opposition.
Past Meeting Series Speakers
December 5, 2025
Eider Berganza Eguiarte (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid)
Postprocessing and biofunctionalization strategies in two-photon lithography
November 7, 2025
Guest Chair: Afshan Begum (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
Emma Wadsworth (University of Utah)
Volumetric Additive Manufacturing by Computer Generated Holography
Céline Steenge (University of Twente)
3D self-aligned nanofabrication strategies for semiconductor devices
Isha Lodhi (Georgia Institute of Technology)</>
MEMS for nano-Newton resolution biological force sensing
October 3, 2025
Prof. Elaine Petro (Cornell University)
Insight into Electrospray Ion Beam-Surface Interactions from Experiments and Simulation
September 5, 2025
Prof. Christelle Prinz (Lund University)
Nanopores and nanostraws for cell transfection
August 1, 2025
Dr Ningxin Li (Clark Atlanta University)
Direct Exploration of Miniature Flexible Devices Empowered by van der Waals Materials
July 4, 2025
Dr. Katja Höflich (Joint Lab for Photonic Quantum Technologies at Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) in Berlin)
Direct is beautiful: exploiting the full potential of focused electron and ion beams for
nanofabrication
May 2, 2025
Guest Chair: Regina Luttge (Microsystems section and Chair of Neuro-Nanoscale Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology)
General Discussion
April 4, 2025
Dr. Lucy Collinson (The Francis Crick Insitute)
Imaging Life across scales with corelative and multimodal imaging
March 7, 2025
Guest Chair: Natalya Kublik Crawford (The University of Texas at Austin)
Tatiana Escalante-Quinceño
Tailored Focused Electron Beam Induced Deposition nanotips for high-resolution Magnetic Force Microscopy
Amaia Saenz Hernandez
Developing superconducting devices using Focused Ion Beam for applications in quantum technologies
Gea van de Kerkhof
Correlative imaging between electron and light microscopy
February 7, 2025
Lucia Herrer (Spanish Research Council)
A scientist’s path around the multidisciplinary field of nanofabrication.
January 3, 2025
Ana Cohen (Quattrone Nanofabrication Facility at University of Pennsylvania)
December 6, 2024
Frances Allen (University of Kent, UK)
Exploring Atomic Effects Across Scales: A Nanofabrication Perspective
November 1, 2024
Guest Chair – Jana Chaaban (Head of Process and Applications Laboratory, Heidelberg Instruments Nano AG, Switzerland)
Jennifer Dong
Mega and nano: my engineering journey from aircraft manufacture to silicon nanowire fabrication
Ketki Srivastava
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once – Micro- and nano-fabrication for sensitive, homogeneous and spatio-temporally-resolved Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy Sensors
October 4, 2024
Monika Fleischer (Institute for Applied Physics, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany)
Exploring optical antennas and hybrid nanoantenna-systems
September 6, 2024
Gina Adam (George Washington University)
Nanoscale neuromorphics – a personal and professional journey
August 2, 2024
Dr. Laura C Zanetti-Domingues (CLF Octopus)
(Cryo-)vEM and (cryo-)CLEM at the CLF Octopus facility
July 5, 2024
Yagmur Demircan Yalcin (Eindhoven University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Department)
A journey of a scientist in pursuit of curiosity
May 3, 2024
Eva de Leo (Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center)
Nanotechnology through my lens
April 5, 2024
Luisa Bozano (Applied Materials)
Electrons, Materials and all the beautiful interactions
March 1, 2024
Guest chair – Afshan Begum (Quantum Photonics Group, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
Junior researcher event
Fatemeh Kalantari, M.Sc, (Nano-electronics, RA, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Iran)
Improved sensing characteristics using Graphene Quantum Dots
Mahdieh Shojaei Baghini (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early-Stage Researcher, University of Glasgow, Scotland)
Microfabricated resonators for the UHF band
Aakanksha Sud (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Tohoku University, Japan)
Nonlinear coupling mediated by multi-magnon interactions in synthetic antiferromagnetic thin films
Plus, gain valuable career-building insights from Ann-Katrin U. Michel, Cluster Lead at Sensirion, Switzerland.
February 2, 2024
Loes Segerink (University of Twente)
The smaller, the better? Use of microfluidic devices for healthcare applications
January 5, 2024
Giulia Tagliabue (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Unraveling Hot Carrier Transfer Processes in Plasmonic Energy Devices
December 1, 2023
Leia Giorgiou (SRI International)
Nanofabrication Coast-to-Coast
November 3, 2023
Guest chair – Jana Chaaban (Heidelberg)
Junior researcher event
Wendy Chen (PhD student, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory)
Using block-copolymer nanolithography to produce ultrathin SiNx isoporous membranes
Tina M. Hayward (PhD student, University of Utah)
Device fabrication for optical lever measurement of torsional motion
Chloé Bureau-Oxton (postdoc researcher at IBM Research Europe – Zürich)
A Si-MOS fin-FET as an on-tip scanning electrometer
Xia Liu (Professor in Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Multiple and Gray-Scale Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography
October 6, 2023
Follow the Nano-brick Road
September 1, 2023
Kirsten Moselund (PSI)
A career in semiconductors – electrons, photons and qubits
August 4, 2023
Marianna Sledzinska (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain)
Title Fabrication techniques for phonon engineering in low dimensional materials
July 7, 2023
Joint WIN+WAVES meeting
Networking event with an informal discussion “Enhancing professional visibility by networking via networks”
May 5, 2023
Elena Pinilla-Cienfuegos (Centro de Tecnología Nanofotónica de Valencia, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Accurate & Reproducible Method for Single Nanoparticle Positioning on Nanostructures
April 7, 2023
Guest Chair: Natalya Kublik (Arizona State University)
Young Investigators
Beihang Yu (Postdoc at the Berkeley Lab, working with Dr. Ricardo Ruiz and Dr. Ron Zuckermann)
Bioinspired, sequence-defined polymer brushes as patternable surface modification monolayers for semiconductor/bio interfaces
Petrovic Jelena (PhD in microtechnology and currently a Scientist Postdoc ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland with Lucia Romano)
Microstructured fiber-based probes for application in optogenetics
Adan Azem (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Infrared waveguide integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (work in progress)
January 6, 2023
Leeya Engel (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
There is no single track to the tenure track: my experience from PhD and Postdoc to Assistant Prof.
December 2, 2022
Carla Perez Martinez (UCL)
Using rockets in nanomanufacturing
November 4, 2022
Updates from our young investigators
Afshan Begum, National Institute for Materials Science and University of Tsukuba (Japan) – Fabrication of large array photonic crystals to observe double Dirac-cones materialized by accidental degeneracy
Alba Arroyo-Fructuoso, University of Valencia (Spain) – Modulation of the Critical Current Induced by an Electric Field in Superconducting Nanowires Grown by He+ FIBID
Sarah Spector, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) – Nonplanar Nanofabrication via Interface Engineering
Mengdi Bao, Rochester Institute of Technology (USA) – Simple, Sensitive and Instrument-free Detection of Viral Nucleic Acids
Victoria Ravel, George Washington University (USA) – Dual-compartment microelectrode array for investigation of neuronal network media exchange
October 7, 2022
Farnaz Niouri (MIT)
Engineering at the Limits of the Nanoscale
September 2, 2022
Sijia Xie (Shanghai Industrial mTechnology Research Institute (SITRI), Shanghai, China)
Hybrid structures by direct write lithography—Tuning the contrast and surface topography of grayscale photoresist with nanoimprint (JVSTB- EIPBN 2022 Best Paper Award)
August 5, 2022
Theda Daniels-Race (LSU)
One of These Things is Not Like the Others: An African-American Woman’s Journey to the Academy
July 2, 2022
Jessica Andriolo (Montana Technological University and Alpha Technology, LLC)
Applied Nanoscale Solutions for the Environment, Medicine, and Materials Fabrication
May 6, 2022
Grande walk: Highlight on students and postdocs posters
Poster session and Exhibition Hall EIPBN 2021
April 1, 2022
Dr. Lucia Romano (ETH Zurich; Paul Scherrer Institute; and University of Catania)
Gas phase MacEtch: unparalleled high aspect ratio silicon nanostructures
March 4, 2022
Dr. Rosa Córdoba Castillo (Universitat de València)
How I went from PhD to junior lead researcher
February 4, 2022
Helen Kardan, ASML
My career path through the cultures
January 7, 2022
Dr. Alexandra Joshi-Imre (University of Texas at Dallas)
Microfabrication of neural interface electrode arrays for chronic in-vivo applications
Yutika Badhe (University of Texas at Dallas)
Stretchable electronics based on a nanofiber reinforced soft composite material
December 3, 2021
Dr. Elizabeth A. Dobisz (Senior Consultant at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
My example of a career path in Nanofabrication
November 5, 2021
Dr. Anuja DeSilva (Lam Research)
My career path learnings in Semiconductor Research: How to persevere and advocate?
October 1, 2021
Natalya Kublik (Arizona State)
Increasing density of additively manufactured copper parts utilizing solid-nanoporous hybrid feedstock with higher energy absorption properties