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Personal profile
Academic background
Eriola- Sophia was born in Fier, Albania in 1990. At age of 4 she moved to Greece where her ongoing exceptional academic track led to her BSc from the University of Applied Sciences of Piraeus, Greece. Her studies were in the field of Automation and Robotics engineering and her bachelor's thesis described a scalable emergency medical response system that coupled the efficient data collection of a pulse sensor with the flexibility and interoperability of a GSM / GPS service architecture for the early detection of the patient’s emerging heart problems. Her rigorous academic performance attracted an Erasmus Mundus scholarship of a 4% acceptance rate, for the further continuation of her studies. Therefore, she joined a joint International Master on Smart Systems Integration (Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)) at various prestigious universities. The MSc consisted of three reputable universities: Heriot-Watt University HWU (Scotland), Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge USN (Norway) and Budapest University of Technology and Economics BME (Hungary). For her MSc thesis she was offered additional scholarship to conduct research at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ETHZ (Switzerland), Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering in Basel, Switzerland, with thesis entitled as “Steps towards antibiotic susceptibility testing microfluidic chips” for ASTs-on-chip. The thesis involved the design, microfabrication and characterization of a microfluidic chip for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing of E. coli.
Research profile
In the microsystems group Eriola-Sophia is doing research on the optimization of magnetic mixing in capillary-driven microfluidic applications. Magnetic actuation of micro-beads and integrated magnetic micro-actuators enhances low-target-concentration detection via providing a homogeneous platform for high precision handheld diagnostics. She will then introduce the application of microelectromagnets-on-chip for system miniaturization.
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Engineering is the art of directing natural laws for the use and convenience of human kind.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Software and microfabrication engineer of ultrasound probes (summer intern), GE Healthcare
15 Jun 2015 → 14 Aug 2015
Process Development engineer, Philip Morris International
13 May 2013 → 12 Nov 2013
Projects
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Magnetic control of micro-particles and integrated micro-actuators for high precision handheld diagnostics
den Toonder, J. M. J. & Shanko, E.
1/11/16 → 31/10/20
Project: Research direct
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Magnetic bead mixing in a microfluidic chamber induced by an in-plane rotating magnetic field
Shanko, E. S., van Buul, O., Wang, Y., van de Burgt, Y., Anderson, P. & den Toonder, J., 1 Feb 2022, In: Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. 26, 2, 12 p., 17.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Enhanced Microfluidic Sample Homogeneity and Improved Antibody-Based Assay Kinetics Due to Magnetic Mixing
Shanko, E. S., Ceelen, L., Wang, Y., van de Burgt, Y. & den Toonder, J., 23 Jul 2021, In: ACS Sensors. 6, 7, p. 2553-2562 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Magnetic micromixing: For point of care diagnostics
Shanko, E-S., 10 May 2021, Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. 133 p.Research output: Thesis › Phd Thesis 1 (Research TU/e / Graduation TU/e)
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Effective mixing in a micro reaction chamber using magnetic micro beads for increased molecular sensing readout time
Shanko, E. S., van de Burgt, Y. & den Toonder, J., 2019, 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2019. Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, p. 1542-1543 2 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Microfluidic magnetic mixing at low reynolds numbers and in stagnant fluids
Shanko, E., van de Burgt, Y., Anderson, P. & den Toonder, J., 1 Nov 2019, In: Micromachines. 10, 11, 23 p., 731.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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