Jens Ducrée has been working for more than four years as a senior staff member at the Institute of Microsystem Technology (IMTEK) in Freiburg (Germany). He heads the lab-on-a-chip group which currently comprises four PhD students and about 10 master and undergraduate students. He teaches a full-year course in microfluidics at IMTEK and the FSRM course "Microfluidics - Pipetting, Dispensing and Microarrays" for which this website was meant to provode an online source of the lecture notes.
His major fields of scientific interest are micro- and nanofluidics and their interplay with emerging life science technologies. In this multidisciplinary field, his main focus is to understand the hydrodynamics within roating platforms, so-called "labs-on-a-disk". In this effort, Jens Ducrée leads the Bio-Disk project which seeks to develop a novel point-of-care platform for medical diagnostics which is based on centrifugal microfluidics. He also coordinates the EU-spnsored FlowMap project which conducts a technology roadmap for microfluidic technologies in the life sciences. The roadmap report will be publically available in fall 2003. Other present activities comprise novel microfluidics-based solutions for environmental monitoring.
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