Dr Melanie Jimenez - University of Strathclyde

Dr Melanie Jimenez has recognised expertise in process engineering, developing microfluidic and sensory systems for medical and environmental sciences. Her work focuses on the design and manufacturing of controlled (micro)fluidic environments to find cells or molecules of interest in complex samples (such as blood), which she describes as finding the needle in a haystack. She is currently deploying her technologies in a range of applications, from point-of-care testing for bacterial infections to endometriosis diagnostics or stem cell characterisation. An area of particular interest for her group is high-throughput single cell analysis (and more specifically cytometry), whereby various microfluidic designs and imaging modalities are tested to better understand cellular changes in health and diseases.