Lourdes Basabe

kerbasque Research Professor since 2012, Director of the Microfluidics & BIOMICs Cluster UPV/EHU since 2019, Young Member of Jakiunde, the Academy of Science and Arts of the Basque Country since 2016.

Studied chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid until 2002. Then, she moved to the University of Twente in The Netherlands, where she completed her PhD in 2006 under the supervision of Dr. Crego Calama and Prof. David Reinhoudt at the Supramolecular Chemistry Group within the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology. In 2006 she joined the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute in Dublin, Ireland, where in 2009 she became Team Leader in Microfluidics for Platelet Biology. In 2012, she was awarded an Ikerbasque Research Professorship and she moved to CICmicroGUNE in the Basque Country, Spain. In 2014, Lourdes joined the BIOMICS research group at the University of the Basque Country, where she established her own independent research team: BIOMICS-microfluidics, focused on the development of lab-on-a-chip technologies. In June 2015 she co-founded the Microfluidics Cluster UPV/EHU with Dr. Fernando Benito-Lopez´s group and in 2019 she promoted the creation of the Microfluidics & BIOMICS Cluster UPV/EHU.

Research Interest: Development of microtecnology and Lab on a chip analytical systems. Research lines: (1) Microfluidics, (2) Smart materials for sensing and actuation, (3) Optical fibers as sensors (4) Surface engineering (5) Microsystems integration.