User:Dirk Van Swaay

Dirk van Swaay Department of Bioengineering Imperial College London South Kensington, SW7 London, UK www.theDirkSide.com

I am a fourth year MEng student in Bioengineering at Imperial College London. I am currently in an exchange programme at UC Berkeley, in California. My main focus this year is my Master's project, which I am undertaking with Professor Luke Lee, at UC Berkeley[1]. Besides my project, this semester, I am taking two classes - Robotics and Introduction to BioMEMS.

Interests

• MEMS (Microelectromechanical systems) for Lab-on-a-Chip devices and biomedical sensors.
• Vesicles and the encapsulation of DNA and gene expression machinery inside phospholipid vesicles.
  • Association colloid science
  • Experiment design and wetlab work
  • Observation and imaging
  • Chassis characterisation
• Biological modelling with nonlinear dynamics