A new PostDoc at ECM
Andreas has recently joined forces with the Group of Experimental and Continuum Mechanics at ETH Zurich to engineer biological interfaces that are compliant with the human skin, improving patients experience with life-supporting biomedical equipment.
Andreas obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for the engineering of new biomaterials that partially mimic the complex mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix, shedding light on new mechanisms of cell mechanobiology. With his previous postdoctoral experience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Princeton University, Andreas designed two- and three-dimensional microtissues to reveal the combined effects of biochemical and biomechanical cues in stem cell differentiation and cancer cell invasion.