People
Department photo in July 2011
FACULTY
George Malliaras
Email : malliaras emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 66 44
| Professor George Malliaras is the Head of the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne. He received a BS in Physics from the Aristotle University (Greece) in 1991, and a PhD in Mathematics and Physical Sciences, cum laude, from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) in 1995. After a two year postdoc at the IBM Almaden Research Center (California), he joined the faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University (New York). From 2006 to 2009 he served as the Lester B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility. He joined the Centre Microélectronique de Provence in the Fall of 2009. His research on organic electronics and bioelectronics has been recognized with awards from the New York Academy of Sciences, the US National Science Foundation, and DuPont. He is a co-author of 180+ publications in peer-reviewed journals that have received over 6,000 citations (h-index = 44). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. |
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Róisín Owens
Email : owens emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 66 45
| Róisín Owens is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne. She received her BA in Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, in Ireland, and her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Southampton University in the U.K. She completed a 4 year postdoctoral fellowship with Professor David Russell in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Cornell University, studying lipid metabolism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This was followed by a 1.5 year appointment at Agave BioSystems, a small biotechnology company in Ithaca, New York. There, Dr. Owens was involved in developing immunological and biochemical methods for the detection of cancers and pathogenic organisms. A newfound interest in coupling biological systems with engineering led her back to Cornell University but this time in the Department of Biomedical Engineering where she worked as a Research Associate in the laboratory of Dr. Moonsoo Jin, to engineer proteins for rhinovirus therapeutics, as well as the development of nanoparticles for in vivo targeting. She has a wide range of expertise in the areas of protein and lipid biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology and immunology. She has received several awards including the European Research Council starting grant, a Marie Curie reintegration fellowship, and an EMBO fellowship. |
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Sébastien Sanaur
Email : sanaur emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 67 48
| Sébastien Sanaur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne. He received his MSc degree in Condensed Matter : Chemistry and Organization from Pierre et Marie Curie University (UPMC), France in 2000, and his PhD in Chemistry and Physics of Polymers from the same University in 2003. His project was funded by the Office National des Etudes et des Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) in Palaiseau, France. Subsequently, he joined the Packaging and Flexible Electronics Department at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence. He then completed a post-doctoral research stay at Columbia University (NY, USA), at the Nanoscience Center and the Department of Chemistry, focusing on the realization of printed organic transistors. He joined BEL in 2010. His research interests include the physics and engineering of transistors based on pi-conjugated polymers and small molecules for printed electronics and bioelectronics. |
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LABORATORY TECHNICIAN
Adel Hama
Email : hama emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 68 79
| Adel received a higher vocational training certificate (BTS) in Bioanalysis and Controls in 2006. He then received a Bachelor of Sciences in Life Technology with specialisation in Biotechnology from the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland in 2010. He then completed an engineering internship in Dublin, on enhancing product quantity by controlling the specific growth rate of Pichia pastoris expressing human serum albumin. He is currently a laboratory technician in the Department of BioElectronics (BEL). His work involves keeping the biology laboratory organized : Cells cultures, molecular biology and the maintenance of equipment. He tests the biocompatibility between cells and electrical materials on several different device types. He is interested in new applications of the Biology/Electronics interface | |||
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Esma Ismailova
Email : ismailova emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 66 46
| Esma Ismailova is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne. She received a BSc in Physics from the National University of Uzbekistan. She then obtained a Master’s Degree in Polymer Science from the University of Strasbourg 1. She completed her PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Physics at Strasbourg University within a CIFRE fellowship with ST Microelectronics. During this period, she worked on lithographic processes for semiconductor technologies with feature lengths less than 90 nm and on the development of new hyperbranched photoresists. In 2009 she joined the Laboratory for Organic Electronics at Cornell University as a postdoctoral researcher, where she worked on understanding of the interface between biological systems and electronic materials. Her current research in BEL focuses on the design of new organic electronic devices for biosensing and on the development of implantable probes for multi-parameter sensing. |
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Moshe Gurfinkel
Email : gurfinkel emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 68 81
| Moshe Gurfinkel is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne. He received his BSc in Electrical Engineering in 2003, MSc in Physical Electronics in 2005, both cum laude, and his PhD in 2010 from Tel Aviv University. Dr. Gurfinkel spent the first two years of his PhD studies as an associate researcher in the Engineering Department at the University of Maryland. During this stay, he was assigned as a guest researcher in the CMOS and Novel Devices Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). At NIST, he was in charge of the semiconductor reliability laboratory. His graduate work was on reliability physics of advanced microelectronic devices, in particular high-κ transistors (for high performance / low power applications) and SiC transistors (for high power applications). Dr. Gurfinkel is one of the founders of Ormash Holdings Ltd., an Israeli company which designs and installs small and large scale photovoltaic solar systems. Dr. Gurfinkel is currently supported by a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship (IEF) for post doctorals. His current research involves interfacing organic electronic materials with biological cells and tissues. |
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Jin-Hyuk Bae
Email : bae emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 68 83
| Jin-Hyuk Bae is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne. He received the BS degree magna cum lade in Electrical Engineering from the Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, in 2004, and the MS and PhD degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Seoul National University, Seoul Korea, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. Until receiving his PhD degree in 2010, he was involved as a researcher in five projects on organic electronics supported by the Government of Korea and Samsung Electronics, Korea. In addition, during his PhD, he was a teaching assistant at Seoul National University and was hired as a Lecturer at Hansung University, Seoul, Korea and Myongji University, Yongin, Korea. He has published 15 papers in international journals in the past three years. His research interests include processing, characterization, and understanding of interfacial interactions in organic flexible devices. |
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Sylvain Contié
Email : contie emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 68 82
| Sylvain Contié is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioelectronics of the Centre Microélectronique de Provence (ENS-MSE) through a research convention with the start-up company PIXinBIO and the Institut Fresnel (Marseille). He received a BSc in Neurosciences from the Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse) in 2003 and a second BSc in Animal Physiology from the same university in 2004. He then joined a research group in the diabetes field where he was in charge of in vivo modeling of cerebral glucose sensing for one year. This was followed by a MSc degree in Management of Preclinical Studies from the Claude Bernard University (Lyon) in 2006 and concluded by a PhD in Biology within a CIFRE fellowship with SYNARC, a leading company in the bone/cartilage pathologies-related biomarker development and dosage. During this period, he worked on the preclinical and clinical development of new bone metastases-related biomarkers and immunoassays. In 2010, he joined the start-up company PIXinBIO, owner of a portable, multiplex-able, CMOS-based bio-assay platform, to ensure the bio-analytical development of this new technology. |
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Leslie Jimison
Email : jimison emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 68 84
| Leslie Jimison is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne. She received her B.S. in Materials Science from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. She continued her studies at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, where she received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering. Her work at Stanford was focused on understanding the relationship between microstructure and charge transport in semicrystalline, semiconducting polythiophenes. She is interested in the interface of biology and organic electronic devices. Her current research in BEL involves the development of organic electronic chemical transistors for application as sensors for pathogen detection. |
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Michele Sessolo
Email : sessolo emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 68 84
| Michele Sessolo is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne. He received his MSc in Chemistry in 2006, from University of Padova, Italy. Afterward, he joined the Institute for Molecular Science (ICMol) at the University of Valencia, Spain, where he completed his PhD in 2010. His work at ICMol was mainly focused on the on the development of novel hybrid light-emitting devices (HyLEDs) employing metal oxides and ionic compounds together with organic semiconductors. He is currently the recipient of a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) for career development, awarded by the European Commission. His research focuses on the electrical interfacing of organic materials and devices with neurons and neural networks. |
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Laure Sandeau
Email : sandeau emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 68 82
| Laure Sandeau joined the Department of Bioelectronics in the Centre Microélectronique de Provence when she joined the start-up PIXinBIO which has a research convention with the Department. She is a former student in the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, where she received a BSc in Fundamental Physics. She obtained the Agregation in Physics in 2001. After a MSc in Laser and Matter Interaction from the Orsay University (Paris), she received a PhD in Biophysics from the University in Marseille. She taught Physics and Chemistry in Preparatory classes for engineering schools in Marseille and in Paris before joining PIXinBIO. In this start-up, she is responsible for the development of surface chemistry necessary for the production of a portable stand-alone device for rapid diagnosis, using a disposable chip for analysis of biological samples in the field. |
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GRADUATE STUDENTS
Dion Khodagholy
Email : khodagholy emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 67 38
| Dion Khodagholy received his Masters degree from the University of Birmingham (UK) in Electronic and Communication Engineering in 2008. This was followed by a second Masters degree in Microelectronics at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne. He joined BEL as a PhD student in October 2009, supported by a fellowship from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne. His research is on the interface between neurons and organic electronic devices. He is interested in biology related nano-research, especially in organic bioelectronics. |
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Thomas Doublet
Email : doublet emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 68 89
| Thomas received in 2008 a Licence degree in Animal Physiology from Caen Basse-Normandie University - France (he was also an exchange student in Millersville University (PA, USA) during his last licence degree year) and in 2010 a Masters degree in Integrative and Cognitive Neurosciences from Aix-Marseille University - France. He is currently a Ph.D. student within a partnership between the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, INSERM U 751 Epilepsy&cognition laboratory of the Marseille University Hospital (La Timone), and Microvitae Technologies company. He is expected to graduate in 2013. He is interested in biology related nano-research, especially in physiological and pathological neurons network recording and mapping. |
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Scherrine Tria
Email : stria emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 68 88
| Scherrine Tria received in 2007 a Licence degree in Biochemistry from Nimes University. She then received a Master’s degree in Biotechnology with specialty in cellular engineering, from diagnostics to drug development, from Montpellier II University in 2009. She is currently a graduate student in the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, expected to graduate in 2013. She is interested in biology related nano-research, especially in biodevices for pathogen detection. |
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Eleni Stavrinidou
Email : stavrinidou emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 68 87
| Eleni Stavrinidou is a PhD student in the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne. Her PhD is supported by a fellowship from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne. She received her BS degree in Physics in 2008 and her Master’s degree in Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences in 2010, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is interested in the physical properties of conjugated polymers, charge transport mechanisms, and in organic electrochemical transistors as biosensors. |
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Pierre Leleux
Email : pleleux88 gmail.com, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 ** **
| Pierre received his Engineering degree in 2010 from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne (MicroElectronics and Computer Science specialized cycle). He works as a research engineer for the company MicroVitae, which specializes in microrlectrodes. His work consists in the design of a new device for the acquisition and analysis of acoustical auditory brainstem responses. He is currently a graduate student in the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne and in the Epilepsy and Cognition laboratory, INSERM U751, of the Medical University of Timone in Marseille. His current research focuses on multi-scale acquisition of neuronal responses for epilepsy. He is interested in biologic signal processing, especially in neuronal signal acquisition. |
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Manuelle Bongo
Email : bongo emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 68 88
| Manuelle received in 2008 a Licence degree in Biology from Burgundy University, and subsequently completed a Masters degree in biology and health. She is currently a phD student in the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne. Her research focuses on the development of an in vitro blood-brain barrier model. She is interested in biology. |
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Xenofon Strakosas
Email : strakosas emse.fr, Tel : +33 (0)4 42 61 68 88
| Xenofon Strakosas has received his bs degree in Physics in 2008, and his Master’s degree in Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies in 2011, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a PhD student in the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne. He is interested in organic electrochemical transistors as biosensors. |
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