Welcome to the Biodegradable Technologies group at ECTM
Our multidisciplinary team is developing biodegradable MEMS, a new class of micro-electro-mechanical systems made entirely of biodegradable materials, including sensors, actuators, and electric circuits, for medical and environmental applications.
- 23/02/2026 Congratulations to Elena and co-authors (in particular Feyza, Francesco, Vasiliki, and Zhengwei), on our paper entitled “A biodegradable implantable micropump for biomedical applications, focusing on peripheral nerve repair”, which has been accepted for publication in Nano Research (IF9)!
- 03/02/2026 Zhengwei Liao wins the Best Poser award during the Microelectronics Research Day, awarded by the delegation of Korean scientists: Congratulations, Zhengwei!
- 25/01/2026 Excellent conference and great people at IEEE MEMS 2026 in Salzburg
- 21/11/2025 Heartfelt congratulations to Tim for winning the Best Poster Award at the Magnetocalorics Conference in Delft! Well done, Tim!
- 18/11/2025 Excellent news! The article “Environmental and Ecological Monitoring with Biodegradable Technologies”, authored by Javad together with Yaren, Zhengwei, Maryam, Sarab from Imperial, Denys from CNRS, Filipe, and Clementine, has been accepted for publication in Advanced Science. Congrats to the authors!
- 13/11/2025 Tim’s paper, with Friso and Elena as co-authors and titled “Burn-Safe Biodegradable Magnetocaloric Composites for Temperature-Controlled Biomedical Applications” has been accepted for publication in Advanced Science!
It’s time to celebrate, congratulations to Tim and the co-authors for this outstanding work! - 13/11/2025 Great news! The Delft Bioengineering Institute has awarded us a grant to support our collaboration with Prof. Kunal Masania’s group on the project “FunSens: Fungal Bioelectric Potential Monitoring for Multifunctional Living Biosensors.” Huge congratulations to Mark for leading the proposal, and many thanks to the Institute for supporting a collaboration we’re truly excited about!
- 29/10/2025 We are glad to announce that our research group has been awarded the prestigious Dutch VIDI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO)! Check the new here and here !
- 25/09/2025 Farewell Microelectronics Colloquium, Henk van Zeijl. We have co-taught the IC and MEMS microfabrication course together in recent years, receiving very enthusiastic feedback from the students—thanks in large part to your deep knowledge and the engaging way you bring the material to life. I also learned a lot myself. Thank you again, Henk!
- 22/09/2025 It was such a pleasure to meet Prof. Zhenan Bao from Stanford University and colleagues during the Alumni meeting at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Thank you again, Chih-Jen, for organizing this meeting!
- 25/09/2025 Zhengwei’s paper, together with Ata, Javad and Filipe, “Wearable and Implantable Devices for Continuous Monitoring of Muscle Physiological Activity: A Review,” has been accepted for publication in Advanced Science. Again congratulations! You can find it online.
- 15-19/09/2025 Very nice oral presentations given by Zhengwei and Laura at MNE 2025 (International Micro and Nano Engineering Conference) in Southhampton, UK. And Zhengwei was awarded the price for “Best Student oral presentation“, Congratulations!
- 14/09/2025 Congratulations to Javad for his oral presentation at the E-MRS conference, from September 14th to 18th in Poland.
- 15/08/2025 Please join me in giving a warm welcome to Niko Putra, who is joining the Biodegradable Technologies group as a postdoctoral researcher. We are excited to have you on board, Niko, and wish you all the best as you begin this next chapter of your research journey!
- 10/07/2025 Javad’s paper, “Biodegradable Microwave Cavity Resonator,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters. Congratulations! You can find it online.
Many thanks as well to everyone for your ongoing support, collaboration, and the positive atmosphere you help create in the group. Your indirect contributions to this work, and to all of our projects, really make a difference.
Well done, Javad, and onward to the next one! - 25/06/2025 Prof. Boutry joined the Swiss MedTech Day 2025 in Bern, Switzerland. Excellent landscape of the current activities in the field!
- 02/06/2025 An excellent NOCI Troppo Breve retreat in Bruges, Belgium, with all our parners from the Netherlands Organ-on-Chip Initiative partners. Many thanks to the organizers for this great event!
- 01/06/2025 A warm welcome to Sourav Patranabish who is joining the Biodegradable Technologies group as a new postdoc! All the best in your research, Sourav!
- 26/05/2025 Congratulations to Friso for his talk at the conference E-MRS Spring Meeting in Strasbourg, France!
- 21/04/2025 Kick-off of the new bachelor course “Next generation project: sensors for sustainability in precision agriculture”. Many thanks to our TAs for the hard work in setting up this class!
- 28/03/2025 The ECTM annual review meeting is this year organized by the indian students team at Onder Ons. Thank you for the amazing activities and cultural exchanges!
- 19/03/2025 Meeting with Paul Delrot, CEO and co-founder of readily3d.com, a promising new approach to 3D printing for our team.
- 14/03/2025 Visit with Feyza to the DeMello group and Stavrakis Stavros at ETH Zurich, all very eager to begin this collaboration.
- 04/02/2025 Today we organized a group visit, with a joint meeting between researchers from Professor Achilleas Savva’s team and the biodegradable technologies team. Thank you all for your excellent elevator pitches and fruitful discussions!
- 28/01/2025 The TU Delft Microelectronics Research Day 2025 was a success, a great occasion for our group to share research highlights, meet colleagues and make industry connections. Thanks to the organization team!
- 31/01/2025 Javad Bathaei’s work in collaboration with Sarab Sethi and Mili Ostojic from Imperial College London is published in the Acoustics Bulletin March/April 2025, “Acoustic biodiversity monitoring with hopping robots“
- 01/01/2025 Tim Uliss (Pornpawee) is a new PhD student in our group, she will continue her MSc work on magneto-caloric materials, and their integration into biodegradable microsystems for nerve repair. Welcome back, Tim!
- 01/11/2024 Haoxiang Jiang, Tommaso Lodovisi, and Laura Cavedoni joined our group as new MSc students, in collaboration with Dr. Filipe Cardoso (EI, Microelectronics, TU Delft), we wish you successful MSc projects!
- 15/10/2024 Ceren Kutucu started her PhD in our group, working on biodegradable soft robotics for cardiac application, in collaboration with Prof. Daniel Pijnappels at LUMC. We wish you all the best in this ambitious project!
- 01/05/2024 Ata Golparvar joined our team as a new Postdoc, working on a remotely controlled high-density multi-actuator array for cells studies in collaboration with Prof. Daniel Pijnappels at LUMC, welcome Ata!
- 01/06/2024 Friso Kahler starts his PhD in our group, working on new materials for electrodes in cardiac patches in collaboration with Prof. Natasja de Groot at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, welcome back to the team!
- 21/01/2024 Excellent conference at IEEE MEMS in Austin, Texas, with several students from ECTM.
- 26/06/2024 ECTM excursion to the European Space Agency!
- 15-19/09/2025 Very nice oral presentations given by Zhengwei and Laura at MNE 2025 (International Micro and Nano Engineering Conference) in Southhampton, UK. And Zhengwei was awarded the price for “Best Student oral presentation“, Congratulations!
- 14/09/2025 Congratulations to Javad for his oral presentation at the E-MRS conference, from September 14th to 18th in Poland.
- 15/08/2025 Please join me in giving a warm welcome to Niko Putra, who is joining the Biodegradable Technologies group as a postdoctoral researcher. We are excited to have you on board, Niko, and wish you all the best as you begin this next chapter of your research journey!
- 10/07/2025 Javad’s paper, “Biodegradable Microwave Cavity Resonator,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters. Congratulations! You can find it online.
Many thanks as well to everyone for your ongoing support, collaboration, and the positive atmosphere you help create in the group. Your indirect contributions to this work, and to all of our projects, really make a difference.
Well done, Javad, and onward to the next one! - 25/06/2025 Prof. Boutry joined the Swiss MedTech Day 2025 in Bern, Switzerland. Excellent landscape of the current activities in the field!
- 02/06/2025 An excellent NOCI Troppo Breve retreat in Bruges, Belgium, with all our parners from the Netherlands Organ-on-Chip Initiative partners. Many thanks to the organizers for this great event!
- 01/06/2025 A warm welcome to Sourav Patranabish who is joining the Biodegradable Technologies group as a new postdoc! All the best in your research, Sourav!
- 26/05/2025 Congratulations to Friso for his talk at the conference E-MRS Spring Meeting in Strasbourg, France!
- 21/04/2025 Kick-off of the new bachelor course “Next generation project: sensors for sustainability in precision agriculture”. Many thanks to our TAs for the hard work in setting up this class!
- 28/03/2025 The ECTM annual review meeting is this year organized by the indian students team at Onder Ons. Thank you for the amazing activities and cultural exchanges!
- 19/03/2025 Meeting with Paul Delrot, CEO and co-founder of readily3d.com, a promising new approach to 3D printing for our team.
- 14/03/2025 Visit with Feyza to the DeMello group and Stavrakis Stavros at ETH Zurich, all very eager to begin this collaboration.
- 04/02/2025 Today we organized a group visit, with a joint meeting between researchers from Professor Achilleas Savva’s team and the biodegradable technologies team. Thank you all for your excellent elevator pitches and fruitful discussions!
- 28/01/2025 The TU Delft Microelectronics Research Day 2025 was a success, a great occasion for our group to share research highlights, meet colleagues and make industry connections. Thanks to the organization team!
- 15-19/09/2025 Very nice oral presentations given by Zhengwei and Laura at MNE 2025 (International Micro and Nano Engineering Conference) in Southhampton, UK. And Zhengwei was awarded the price for “Best Student oral presentation“, Congratulations!
- 14/09/2025 Congratulations to Javad for his oral presentation at the E-MRS conference, from September 14th to 18th in Poland.
- 15/08/2025 Please join me in giving a warm welcome to Niko Putra, who is joining the Biodegradable Technologies group as a postdoctoral researcher. We are excited to have you on board, Niko, and wish you all the best as you begin this next chapter of your research journey!
- 10/07/2025 Javad’s paper, “Biodegradable Microwave Cavity Resonator,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters. Congratulations! You can find it online.
Many thanks as well to everyone for your ongoing support, collaboration, and the positive atmosphere you help create in the group. Your indirect contributions to this work, and to all of our projects, really make a difference.
Well done, Javad, and onward to the next one! - 25/06/2025 Prof. Boutry joined the Swiss MedTech Day 2025 in Bern, Switzerland. Excellent landscape of the current activities in the field!
- 02/06/2025 An excellent NOCI Troppo Breve retreat in Bruges, Belgium, with all our parners from the Netherlands Organ-on-Chip Initiative partners. Many thanks to the organizers for this great event!
- 01/06/2025 A warm welcome to Sourav Patranabish who is joining the Biodegradable Technologies group as a new postdoc! All the best in your research, Sourav!
- 26/05/2025 Congratulations to Friso for his talk at the conference E-MRS Spring Meeting in Strasbourg, France!
- 21/04/2025 Kick-off of the new bachelor course “Next generation project: sensors for sustainability in precision agriculture”. Many thanks to our TAs for the hard work in setting up this class!
- 28/03/2025 The ECTM annual review meeting is this year organized by the indian students team at Onder Ons. Thank you for the amazing activities and cultural exchanges!
- 19/03/2025 Meeting with Paul Delrot, CEO and co-founder of readily3d.com, a promising new approach to 3D printing for our team.
- 14/03/2025 Visit with Feyza to the DeMello group and Stavrakis Stavros at ETH Zurich, all very eager to begin this collaboration.
- 04/02/2025 Today we organized a group visit, with a joint meeting between researchers from Professor Achilleas Savva’s team and the biodegradable technologies team. Thank you all for your excellent elevator pitches and fruitful discussions!
- 28/01/2025 The TU Delft Microelectronics Research Day 2025 was a success, a great occasion for our group to share research highlights, meet colleagues and make industry connections. Thanks to the organization team!
- 18/11/2025 Excellent news! The article “Environmental and Ecological Monitoring with Biodegradable Technologies”, authored by Javad together with Yaren, Zhengwei, Maryam, Sarab from Imperial, Denys from CNRS, Filipe, and Clementine, has been accepted for publication in Advanced Science. Congrats to the authors!
- 13/11/2025 Tim’s paper, with Friso and Elena as co-authors and titled “Burn-Safe Biodegradable Magnetocaloric Composites for Temperature-Controlled Biomedical Applications” has been accepted for publication in Advanced Science!
It’s time to celebrate, congratulations to Tim and the co-authors for this outstanding work! - 13/11/2025 Great news! The Delft Bioengineering Institute has awarded us a grant to support our collaboration with Prof. Kunal Masania’s group on the project “FunSens: Fungal Bioelectric Potential Monitoring for Multifunctional Living Biosensors.” Huge congratulations to Mark for leading the proposal, and many thanks to the Institute for supporting a collaboration we’re truly excited about!
- 29/10/2025 We are glad to announce that our research group has been awarded the prestigious Dutch VIDI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO)! Check the new here and here !
- 18/11/2025 Excellent news! The article “Environmental and Ecological Monitoring with Biodegradable Technologies”, authored by Javad together with Yaren, Zhengwei, Maryam, Sarab from Imperial, Denys from CNRS, Filipe, and Clementine, has been accepted for publication in Advanced Science. Congrats to the authors!
- 13/11/2025 Tim’s paper, with Friso and Elena as co-authors and titled “Burn-Safe Biodegradable Magnetocaloric Composites for Temperature-Controlled Biomedical Applications” has been accepted for publication in Advanced Science!
It’s time to celebrate, congratulations to Tim and the co-authors for this outstanding work! - 13/11/2025 Great news! The Delft Bioengineering Institute has awarded us a grant to support our collaboration with Prof. Kunal Masania’s group on the project “FunSens: Fungal Bioelectric Potential Monitoring for Multifunctional Living Biosensors.” Huge congratulations to Mark for leading the proposal, and many thanks to the Institute for supporting a collaboration we’re truly excited about!
- 29/10/2025 We are glad to announce that our research group has been awarded the prestigious Dutch VIDI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO)! Check the new here and here !
- 25/01/2026 Excellent conference and great people at IEEE MEMS 2026 in Salzburg
- 25/01/2026 Excellent conference and great people at IEEE MEMS 2026 in Salzburg
Latest Research Highlights
New functionalized biodegradable materials
Biodegradable technologies for Organ-on-Chip applications
Biodegradable technologies for medical implants
Biodegradable technologies for environment monitoring
News
16/01/2023 Congratulations to Elena, who received an award for best poster presentation at the Biocube Meeting 2023, which took place in Sestriere (Italian Alps) from 10 to 16 December!
- 21/01/2024 Excellent conference at IEEE MEMS in Austin, Texas, with several students from ECTM.
- 12/12/2023 Nikita Gopakuma has successfully defended her master’s thesis, good luck with your PhD abroad, Nikita!
- 01/12/2023 Welcome to Ceren Kutucu and Maarten Lemmens who will start their MSc projects in our group. Ceren will work on a biodegradable sensor to assess wound healing, in collaboration with prof. Paddy French, and Maarten will work on a new approach for a biodegradable membrane for vascularized brainorganoids, with Elena. Furthermore, after their 3-months internship projects in our group, Wil and Tim are starting their MSc projects. Welcome to all!
- 01/12/2023 Dr. Boutry gives a Keynote lecture at the Brain-on-Chip hDMT Consortium meeting 2023, in Amersfoort, NL
- 01/11/2023 Friso Kahler and Elena Aprea gave a talks at hDMT (human Organ and Disease Model Technologies) Brain-on-Chip meeting at Radboudumc in Nijmegen, NL
- 01/11/2023 A warm welcome to Yaren Bathaei, starting her PhD in our group in collaboration with Prof. Kunal Masania to work on living materials. Welcome to ECTM, Yaren!
- 01/11/2023 Javad Bathaei joins our team as a PhD student working on the development of sensors for environment monitoring in the context of the 4TU HTSF Green Sensor project, welcome Javad!
- 31/10/2023 Conference IEEE Sensors, Vienna. Thanks to the organizers for this excellent conference and looking forward to next year
- 15/09/2023 Zhengwei Liao is back in our group to start his PhD in collaboration with Dr. Filipe Cardoso, on biodegradable sensors for a cardiac patch, welcome back Zhengwei!
- 01/09/2023 A warm welcome to MSc students, Pornpawee Uliss (Tim), Yukun Lian (Will), Saeed Mohammadi Nasr, Teresa Onorato, Edoardo Domenella, who will join our research team for projects lasting 6 to 12 months, we wish you much success with your MSc thesis work!
- 05/07/2023 Our review article “Recent Advances in Magnetic Polymer Composites for BioMEMS: A Review” has been rewarded as the “Editor-in-Chief’s Choice Article”, congratulations! More details on the journal’s LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook account with @Materials_MDPI
- 15/06/2023 The review article of Zhengwei and Oualid was selected to be highlighted on the front page of Materials, congratulations!
- 01/06/2023 Let’s give a warm welcome to Feyza Pirim, who joined today the Biodegradable Technologies team as a PhD student. Feyza will be focusing on the development of biodegradable actuators. We wish Feyza a smooth beginning and great achievements in her new endeavor.
- 01/06/2023 Please join me in welcoming Elena Aprea, who is joining our Biodegradable Technologies team as a new PhD student. She will work on biodegradable microsystems and organ-on-chip. We wish Elena an excellent start and a lot of success in her new challenge.
- 30/05/2023 Mid-term presentations of Samhitha and Kiana at the ECTM colloquium, come and join us!
- 30/05/2023 PhD defense of Johannes Weichart, and presentation of our activities to the group of Micro- and Nanosystems and Prof. Christofer Hierold at ETH Zurich. Website
- 17/05/2023 Please check the new publication of Zhengwei and Oualid in Materials: Recent Advances in Magnetic Polymer Composites for BioMEMS: A Review
- 19-21/04/2023 Visit to the laboratories of Prof. Lorenzo Picinali at Imperial College London, UK, and workshop on biodegradable environmental audio monitoring systems, with EMPA colleagues from Switzerland. Thank you Prof. Picinali for hosting the meeting and for the fruitful discussion! Website
- 21-24/03/2023 The NOCI’s Troppo Breve IV retreat is held in Barchem, NL. Four days for participants in the Dutch Organ-on-a-Chip initiative to meet and discuss exciting scientific challenges at the interface between microfabrication technologies and biology
- 01/12/2023 Friso Kahler joins the Biodegradable Technologies team to work for his master project on a perfusion chamber with biodegradable properties for perfused brain organoids, welcome Friso!
- 13/12/2022 Christmas bowling & Drinks for the ECTM group in Delft, Merry Christmas!
- 7/12/2022 AM Community Meeting, The additive manufacturing community is growing stronger at TU Delft!
- 25/11/2022 MRS conference in Boston.
- 14/11/2022 Kiana Griffith joins our team in collaboration with Prof. Dante muratore to work on pressure sensors for intraocular monitoring, welcome to you, Kiana!
- 01/11/2022 Nikita Gopakumar joins our team to work for her master project on wireless pH and strain sensors. Warm welcome Nikita!
- 15/10/2022 Janine van Ingen is joining our Biodegradable Technologies team for her Bachelor Honor project to work for 2 years on cryogels 3D printing. Welcome Janine
- 10/10/2022 Samhitha Duvvuri joins the ECTM Biodegradable Technologies team to work on biodegradable microphones. Welcome Samhitha!
- 20-22/09/2022 Visit of the Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technologies) in Zurich, Switzerland. Thank you Prof. Kovac for the invitation and very fruitful discussions!
- 14/09/2022 Francesco and Matteo defended successfully today their master thesis in their home university in Torino. Congratulations to both of you!
- 08-09-2022 Annual symposium of the working group of electrochemistry in Wageningen.
- 01/09/2022 Maima Postma joins our team for her internship project to work on a 3D printer for biodegradable cryogels. Welcome Maima!
- 31/08/2022 Oualid defended with honors his master thesis. Warm congratulations!
- 26/08/2022 Zhengwei successfully defended his master thesis today. Congratulations!
- 23-26/03/2022 We met the other members of the NOCI Netherlands Organ-on-Chip group during the Troppo Breve retreat 2022 in Belgium. The occasion to learn more about the application of biodegradable technologies in organ-on-chip applications. Great talks and beautiful place, many thanks to the organizers.
- 18/02/2022 Sohrab Ashrab joins the Biodegradable Technologies team to perform his master thesis on biodegradable stretchable electrodes. Welcome Sohrab!
- 14/02/2022 Francesco Stallone is also joining the team as a visiting master student from EPFL/Torino, working on wireless pH sensors, welcome as well!
- 14/02/2022 Matteo Pirro will join the ECTM Biodegradable Technologies team as a visiting master student from EPFL/Torino, working on the mechanical stretching of neural cells and biodegradable electrodes. Welcome to you!
- 01/11/2021 Shriya Rangaswamy joins ECTM for her PhD, welcome!
- 01/11/2021 Oualid Zoumhani will join the Biodegradable Technologies team to work on soft actuators for pupil surgery for his master thesis. Welcome!
- 14/10/2021 Zhengwei Liao is the first master student to join the ECTM Biodegradable Technologies team, to work on biodegradable scaffolds for cells mechanical stimulation.
- 15/09/2021 Clementine Boutry Joins ECTM at TU Delft to lead the research on Biodegradable Technologies