Aurel Ymeti
Saxion University of Applied Sciences & Nanoalmyona BV, Netherlands
Biography
Aurel Ymeti is cofounder and CEO of Nanoalmyona BV, a high-tech Dutch company specialized in research and technology development, project management and new business development in Hightech Systems and Materials, including integrated photonics, Lab-on-a-Chip biosensing, optoelectronics, microscopy, and nanomedicine. He earned his MSc in Theoretical Physics from the University of Tirana, Albania in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics/Nanotechnology from the University of Twente, Netherlands in 2004, working on the development of ultrasensitive multichannel integrated photonic (bio-)sensing platforms. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the same university on development of portable devices for staging of HIV infection in point-of-care settings, later commercialized by Immunicon/Veridex (J&J). In 2008 Aurel cofounded Ostendum, a spin-off company of the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology of the University of Twente, focusing on the commercialization of extremely sensitive and label-free optical analysis methods for rapid detection of micro-organisms and biomarkers based on the Lab-on-a-Chip Nanotechnology, initially invented and developed by Aurel during his Ph.D. project. As CTO at Ostendum, he was responsible for the research and technology development, product management and new business development.
Abstract
Abstract : Photonic Biosensors for Point-of-Care Applications