Principal Investigator
Ghulam Destgeer
2020 – date: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, TUM, Germany
2018 – 2020: Postdoc, Bioengineering, Di Carlo Lab, UCLA, USA
2011 – 2018: MS, PhD, Postdoc, Flow Control Lab, Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Korea
2006 – 2010: BS, Mechanical Engineering, GIK Institute, Pakistan
Room 22.2.27
Phone +49.89.4140.9037
Team Assistant
PhD Students
Muhammad Zia Ullah Khan
2022–date: PhD student
2016-2018: MS Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) / Arizona State University (ASU)
Research Interests: Acoustofluidics, Capillary Microfluidics, Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Analysis and Simulation
Room 22.1.33
Phone +49.89.4140.9114
Muhammad Usman Akhtar
2022–date: PhD student
2018 - 2020: MS Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiiaotong University, China
Research Interests: Lab on a Particle, Droplet Microfluidics, Capillary Microfluidics, Flow Lithography and Diagnostics
Room 22.1.33
Phone +49.89.4140.9114
Yiying Zou
2022–date: PhD student
2016-2019 : MS Physical Chemistry, South China Normal University
Research Interests: Lab on a Particle, Droplet Microfluidics, Acoustofluidics and Diagnostics
Room 22.1.33
Phone +49.89.4140.9114
Yimin Yang
2021–date: PhD student
2017-2020 : MS Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University
Research Interests: Lab on a Particle and Droplet Microfluidics
Room 22.1.33
Phone +49.89.4140.9114
Mehmet Akif Şahin
2021 – date: PhD student
2017-2020 : MS Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University
Research Interests: Lab on a Particle, Microfluidics, Acoustofluidics, Flow Lithography and Machine Learning
Room 22.1.33
Phone +49.89.4140.9114
Helen Werner
2021 – date: PhD student
2018 – 2021: MS Industrial Biotechnology, Technical University of Munich
Research Interests: Lab on a Particle, Droplet Microfluidics, Assay Development, Diagnostics and Simulation
Room 22.1.33
Phone +49.89.4140.9114
Master/Bachelor students
ALUMNI
| Date | Topic | ||
| 11.2022 – 12.2024 | Xinpei Song, PhD | Sino-German (CSC-DAAD) Postdoc Fellow | Numerical investigation of particle templated droplet formation |
| 2025 | Sihao Wu | BSc Student | BS Thesis: CellTrap: Image Analysis of Cell-Cell Interactions in a Microfluidic Chip |
| 2025 | Asma Iqbal | Internship | Detection and Analysis of Shape-coded Particles |
| 2024-2025 | Junwei Cheng | BSc Student | BS Thesis: Fabrication of Functionalized Amphiphilic Microparticles for Biomedical Applications |
| 2024 – 2025 | Deqi Dieter Wei | Internship | Multimaterial Fabrication of Microparticles Using 3D Printed Microfluidics |
| 2024 – 2025 | Can Boztepe | BSc Student | BS Thesis: Multi-modal Active Sculpting Microfluidic Flow by Surface Acoustic Waves |
| 2024 – 2025 | Cansu Kılıç | MSc Student | MS Thesis: Benchmarking the Flow Lithography Configuration |
| 2024 – 2025 | Amer Alkalouti | MSc Student | MS Thesis: Volumetric Analysis of Amphiphilic Particle Templated Droplets |
| 2024 – 2025 | Hernán Martín Salido | MSc Student | MS Thesis: Design of 3D coaxial flow microfluidic devices for the fabrication of shape-coded particles |
| 2024 | Zhaoyang Li | BSc Student | BS Thesis: A Software for Actively Sculpted Microfluidic Flow by Surface Acoustic Waves |
| 2024 | Anam Malik | MSc Student | MS Thesis: Numerical Modeling of Phase Separation Phenomenon in Colloid Polymer Mixture |
| 2023 – 2024 | Angelika Musiol | MSc Student | MS Thesis: Investigation and Optimization of Flow Resistances in a Microfluidic Device |
| 2023 – 2024 | Yumer Veysel Lyale | BSc Student | BS Thesis: Multiplexed Actuation of Interdigital Transducers for Acoustofluidic Applications |
| 2023 – 2024 | Emir Music | MSc Student | MS Thesis: Design and Simulation of Fluidic Resistances for an Electrically Controllable Respiratory Training Device |
| 2023 – 2024 | Danelle Kyra Widjaja | MSc Student | MS Thesis: Development of Particle-templated Droplet Assay for a New Pair of Prognostic Biomarkers for TNBC |
| 2023 – 2024 | Leander van den Eijnden | MSc Student | MS Thesis: A Multimodal, Low-Cost, AI-Assisted Portable Reader to Analyze Shape-Coded Particles for Multiplexed Diagnostic Assays |
| 2023 – 2024 | Neslihan Ülkü Darici | MSc Student | MS Thesis: Single-Cell Lactate Assay in Droplet Microfluidic Platform |
| 2022 – 2024 | Furkan Ginaz Almus | TOBITAK Scholar | MS Thesis: Design and development of a microfluidic platform for single cell-cell interactions |
| 2022 – 2023 | Nabeel Ahmed | MSc Student | MS Thesis: Lab on a Particle: Particle Templated Droplets for Diagnosis Bioassays |
| 2022 – 2023 | Korel Mehmet Günar | MSc Student | MS Thesis: Design and development of a microfluidic platform for single cell-cell interactions |
| 2022 – 2023 | Muhammad Shehzad | MSc Student | MS Thesis: Characterization of Stop Flow and Particle Fabrication |
| 2022 – 2023 | Jialing Yang | BSc Student | BS Thesis: Design and Development of Microfluidic Pumping Device. Internship: Encapsulation of Nano-liter Droplet Volume in Amphiphilic Microparticles. |
| 2022 | Ahmet Eren Sahin | Internship | Internship funded by Erasmus+ Student Mobility for Traineeships |
| 2021 – 2022 | Cyrine Bhiri | MSc Student | Neural Network based recognition and analysis of shape coded particles for multiplex bioassays |
| 2021 – 2022 | Feriel Fendri | Internship | System Integration for Stop Flow Lithography Process |
| 2021 | Revanth Coimbatore Varadarajan | Research Assistant | 3D Modeling of Experimental Stage and Microfluidic Devices |