Erica Zeglio

Erica Zeglio

Affiliated to Research
Visiting address: Biomedicum, Solnavägen 9, 17165 Solna
Postal address: C4 Neurovetenskap, C4 AIMES, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I am an interdisciplinary scientist with experience in organic electronic materials, organic bioelectronics, and materials chemistry. My research is driven by the need for materials and device designs that provide better performance (e.g., for sensing), with a particular focus on bioelectronic applications, and improve the long-term impact of modern technological products.

    I am a chemist as a background, with a M.Sc. in chemistry from Pavia University (Italy). As a young student interested in research, I worked with the groups of Luigi Casella (Pavia), Ebbe Nordlander (Lund) and Ivan Castillo (Mexico City) with a project focused on bioinorganic chemistry.

    In 2012 I moved to Linköping to do a PhD in "Biomolecular and Organic Electronics" under the supervision of Prof. Olle Inganäs. At the beginning of 2017, just after finishing my PhD, I moved to Australia where I had the chance to work with Prof. Damia Mawad group at the University of New South Wales (UNSW, Sydney) and with Prof. Gordon Wallace at the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (University of Wollongong).

    Supporting yourself as a young researcher can be challenging. I was granted my first funding in 2018, and I joined Mawad Lab at UNSW under the " International Postdoc" grant from the Swedish Research Council in partnership with Herland Lab at KTH. In 2020, I moved back to Sweden and joined Herland Lab at KTH Royal Institute of Technology as a researcher. My quest to support my research endeavors continued, and from 2021 to 2023 I was Marie Curie Fellow with the project "Bioresorbable Organic Electronic Devices (BioResORGEL)".

    I am currently a Team leader at AIMES Center for the Advancement of Integrated Medical and Engineering Sciences at KI (https://aimes.se/) and Assistant Professor (WISE Fellow) at the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry (MMK) at Stockholm University (https://www.su.se/english/profiles/erze3680-1.656129),

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    If you are interested in performing your master's thesis project as a part of our team, feel free to contact me directly with your motivation and interests.

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  • Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2023 - 31 December 2026
    Electrode interfaces are fundamental tools to assess the complex functions of electrically active cells, mainly from the brain and heart. In vitro studies of human-relevant functional cells from these organs are essential for drug development and toxicology evaluations. Today, using stem cells and microengineering, we can create highly functional human heart and brain systems in the form of 3D cultures and 2.5 D Organ-on-Chip cultures. We have used such cultures both for high-throughput and chronic studies. However, classical electrophysiological methods are inherently low throughput and cannot be applied to these new in vitro formats, severely limiting their applicability. Our project aims to develop methods to improve and simplify in vitro electrophysiology for use in studies of functional neural and cardiac cultures in the 3D and Organ-on-Chip format. We base our development on organic electronics and conjugated polymers due to their mixed electronic/ionic conductivity and suitable physiochemical properties. Our approach here is to combine our latest, best-performing polymer materials with state-of-the-art rapid 3D microfabrication and assembly of microstructures. We will develop novel device configurations with ideal sensitivity, ionic and interface interactions, and form factors for assessing 2.5D and 3D electroactivity in Organ-on-Chip and 3D cultures.
  • Swedish Research Council
    1 January 2019 - 31 December 2022

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