Freddy RadtkeFreddy Radtke obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Zürich in 1994. In 1995, he started his postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Michel Aguet at Genentech, Inc. (San Francisco, USA). In 1997, he returned to Switzerland with Michel Aguet and finished his postdoctoral fellowship at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) in Lausanne. From 1999‑2005, he was a group leader and Associate Member at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Freddy Radtke then joined ISREC in January 2006 as a senior scientist and in July 2006, he was appointed Associate Professor at the EPFL School of Life Sciences
Martinus GijsMartin A.M. Gijs received his degree in physics in 1981 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and his Ph.D. degree in physics at the same university in 1986. He joined the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 1987. Subsequently, he has worked there on micro-and nano-fabrication processes of high critical temperature superconducting Josephson and tunnel junctions, the microfabrication of microstructures in magnetic multilayers showing the giant magnetoresistance effect, the design and realisation of miniaturised motors for hard disk applications and the design and realisation of planar transformers for miniaturised power applications. He joined EPFL in 1997. His present interests are in developing technologies for novel magnetic devices, new microfabrication technologies for microsystems fabrication in general and the development and use of microsystems technologies for microfluidic and biomedical applications in particular.
Stefano Davide VianelloStefano is a PhD student working in the Laboratory of Stem Cell Engineering of Prof. Matthias Lütolf at EPFL, Switzerland. His research focuses on the use of in vitro embryonic models (Gastruloids) to understand how mechanics and geometry instruct the development of implanting species such as mouse and human. He studied Natural Sciences in Cambridge (Girton College), specialising in Genetics. He then worked in the laboratory of Prof. Alfonso Martinez-Arias, Department of Genetics, to investigate the interactions between chemical signalling pathways involved in early embryonic development. When not at the lab bench, Stefano writes for the pre-print highlight service of the Company of Biologists: preLights. He is also very interested on scientific communication and visualisation (digital illustration, virtual/augmented reality), especially in the field of developmental biology.
