Affiliation: Tampere University

Dr. Tomi Ryynänen received MSc. degree in applied physics from the University of Jyväskylä in 2000. After a couple of years in optoelectronics and software industry, he returned to academia to do micro- and biosensor research and to develop the microfabrication infrastructure at Tampere University (former Tampere University of Technology). Since 2008 he has been working together with stem cell biologists in order to develop technical tools for them, especially microelectrode arrays (MEAs) and sensors. In 2019 he received a PhD degree in biomedical engineering and continues now his research as a postdoc in the Centre of Excellence in Body-on-Chip Research (CoEBoC) in Tampere University.