Career Focus
From the Lab to a Startup
A researcher and company founder discusses how his interest in optofluidics led him to both academia and entrepreneurship.
Illustration based on fluorescence light micrographs of organoids. [T. Leach / Science Photo Library]
I have always been fascinated by creating materials from simple building blocks in imaginative ways that give them a specific functionality. As a child, that meant Lego cars. Later, it became research on microscopic matter built from colloidal particles, creating miniature versions of heat engines or even self-propulsive colloidal molecules.
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