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Larisa Florea
Larisa Florea is Associate Professor in the Trinity College Dublin School of Chemistry and an AMBER researchers. She has over 10 years of experience in polymer chemistry and sensing technologies and she is a recognised leader in the field of responsive polymers. She is...
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Sina Javadpour
Sina Javadpour has submitted a PhD to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from South Dakota State University (SDSU), with expertise spanning biomedical and mechanical engineering. He has served as a...
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Bruce Murphy
Bruce Murphy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering in Trinity College Dublin, Deputy Director of the Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering (TCBE), and Principal Investigator in the TCBE and AMBER Centre. He is a recognised expert...
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Luisa Lavelle
Luisa Lavelle completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Medicinal Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin in 2020. During her final year, she conducted her undergraduate research project under the supervision of Dr. Carl Poree, focusing on molybdenum-based catalysts for allylic...
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Cristina Purtil
Cristina Purtil has over 15 years’ experience in the healthcare industry and in product management, acquired while working as a Global Product Manager with GE Healthcare in the USA and in marketing roles with Dell. Cristina had previously led the...
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Stephen Johnson Barker
Stephen Johnson Barker has a strong industrial design background having completed BSc in Product Design and an M.Sc. in Medical Device Design. Stephen’s strengths lie in the design and manufacturing of the devices Plio Surgical is developing with skills in...
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Virgilio Mattoli
Virgilio Mattoli received his laurea degree in chemistry (cum laude) from the University of Pisa and the diploma in chemistry from the Scuola Normale Superiore in 2000. In 2005 he received his PhD in bio-engineering (cum laude) from Scuola Superiore...
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Marco Crepaldi
Marco Crepaldi received the engineering degree (summa cum laude) and the Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the Politecnico di Torino (Polito), Turin, Italy, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. In 2008, he was a visiting scholar at the Electrical Engineering Department...
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Amirsoheil Honarbari
Amirsoheil Honarbari is a post-doctoral researcher at the Electronic Design Laboratory (EDL) at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). In 2024, he completed his PhD in Bioengineering and Robotics at IIT-University of Genova under the supervision of Dr Athanassia Athanassiou...
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Elena Maurina
Elena Maurina earned her Master’s Degree in Chemistry (cum laude) in 2021 and her diploma in Chemistry from the Scuola Normale Superiore in 2022. In June 2025, she completed her PhD in Information Engineering at the University of Pisa under...
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Joep Derikx
Prof. Joep Derikx is a (pediatric) surgeon in Amsterdam UMC and head of the department of pediatric surgery with a special interest in translational research with focus on understanding the pathophysiology and early detection of intestinal anastomotic healing and leakage....
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Ric van Tol
Dr Ric van Tol studied Biology at the University of Groningen, completing doctoral research on Islet Transplantation for Type 1 Diabetes, including an internship at the University of Minnesota, USA. He earned his PhD at Leiden University Medical Center, focusing...
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Ana Avramovic
Ana Avramovic completed her Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences at Radboud University Nijmegen, with a specialisation in molecular medicine. During her studies, she conducted several research projects focusing on the development of potential therapeutic approaches for cancer and immune-related disorders....
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