Affiliation: Mechatronics, Biostatistics and Sensors (MeBioS) at KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

After graduating in Chemical Engineering, Xevi held positions in industry (Food and Pharma) before moving to UC Irvine where in 2009 he obtained a PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Marc Madou for his work on Bio-MEMS. He then moved to Imperial College London, where as a postdoc he contributed to develop microfluidic technology for high throughput screening. In 2012 Xevi joined the ETH Zürich as a Senior Scientist, where he led research lines on applied microfluidic technology for biological experimentation in single cells and C. elegans nematodes. After a 1-year project at Novartis (contributing to establish their European Cell & Gene manufacturing facility), since 2019 he leads the Biomimetics group in the Biosystems department at KU Leuven, where he works on replicating biological processes at the micro- and nano-scale for applications in human health.