“…Dependeth the might of the chain.”
-5th Law of the Navy
Principal Investigator
Michael Daniele
Professor
University Faculty Scholar
PhD, MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
BS, MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Dr. Daniele is a member of the Faculty in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and investigator in the NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies — ASSIST (assist.ncsu.edu). With Dr. Stefano Menegatti, he founded the North Carolina Viral Vector Initiative in Research and Learning (NC-VVIRAL). He joined the faculty in 2015 from the U.S. Naval Research Lab, where he was a National Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Associate and Jerome and Isabella Karle Distinguished Scholar. Dr. Daniele’s primary area of interest is the broad application of materials and systems engineering to monitor, mimic or augment biochemical processes and biological functions.
Postdoctoral Scholars
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Nooshin Zandi
PhD, Nanotechnology
Dr. Zandi works on tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
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Halston Deal
PhD, Biomedical Engineering
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He Sun
PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Sun investigates biodegradable materials for bioelectronics fabrication.
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Rajendra P. Shukla
PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Shukla works on Electrochemical and Field-effect transistor based Biosensors.
Students
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Angélica F. Aroche
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Angélica is graduate student working on the development of a microneedle extraction system.
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Jack Twiddy
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Jack is a Doctoral Student interested in developing embedded sensor systems for electrochemical biosensing.
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Hannah Nissan
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Hannah is a Graduate Student interested in biosensing and wearables. She is currently investigating the integration of microneedles with wearable biochemical sensors.
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Chris Sharkey
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Chris is a graduate student working on biosensor regeneration and integrated systems for health monitoring. Also a team member in the 2024 SensUs Student Competition!
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Kaila Peterson
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Kaila is a graduate student interested in wearable sensing systems.
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Junhyeong Wang
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Junhyeong is a graduate student working on label-free biosensors.
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Kirstie Queener
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Kirstie is a graduate student studying sensor design and fabrication.
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Irfan Ismail
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Irfan is a graduate student working on biosensing and label-free detection.
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Gabby Rusch
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Gabby is a graduate student on utilizing peptide engineering and cell biology.
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Lina M. Acosta Pérez
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Lina is a graduate student working with EGFET sensors for disease detection.
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Crystal Marie Collazo
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Crystal is a graduate student interested in Gene Therapy biomanufacturing.
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Elizabeth Byrnes
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Elizabeth is a graduate student studying microfluidic systems.
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Taylor Pleines
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Taylor is a graduate student working on affinity ligand development for lentivirus purification.
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Bella Agusta
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Bella is an undergraduate student working in the development of a microneedle systems.
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Ashley Dehn
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Ashley is an undergraduate student and team member in the 2025 SensUs Student Competition!
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Jacob Linnabary
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Jacob is an undergraduate student and team member in the 2024 SensUs Student Competition!
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Lily Ro
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Lily is an undergraduate student and team member in the 2025 SensUs Student Competition!
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Lauren Mabe
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Lauren is an undergraduate student designing a bioreactor and Team Member of the 2025 SensUs Student Competition!
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Jenny Lopez
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Jenny is a undergraduate student and part of the 2025 SensUS Team!
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Ameerah Abadiz
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Ameerah is an undergraduate student and team member of the 2025 SensUs Team!
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Charlie Chapitano
BIOCHEMISTRY
Charlie is part of the Sensus 2025 team. He also is a part of Dr. Dickey’s chemical engineering lab group.
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Anna Shay
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Anna is an undergraduate student working on enhancing the attributes of MNC scaffolds.
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Emma Willis
MATERIAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Emma is an undergraduate student working with Microbial nanocellulose scaffolds.
Alumni
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Mahshid now works at Novartis.
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Halston completed his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering in 2024.
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Praveen currently works as an R&D engineer at Medtronic.
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Ethan completed his masters in Electrical Engineering in 2024.
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Max completed his undergraduate degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering, and is now pursuing doctoral studies at Stanford University.
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Brendan completed his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering in 2023, and he currently works as a research engineer at Ortec, Inc. in South Carolina.
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Katie completed her doctorate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2023, and she currently works as a account representative at Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition NA in North Carolina.
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Mike completed his doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2023, and he currently works as a assistant teaching professor at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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Travis completed his masters in Biomedical Engineering in 2023.
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Dr. Lee served as a postdoc from 2019 to 2022.
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Srivatsan completed his doctoral work in Chemical Engineering, and he is currently a scientist in gene therapy development at BridgeBio.
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Grace earned her M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, and she is now pursuing doctoral studies at Stanford Univeristy.
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McKenna is currently a doctoral student at Georgia Tech.
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Sydney currently works as a process engineer at Novo Nordisk.
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Matthew is now a Software Engineer at Apple.
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Raphael completed his doctorate in Chemical Engineering in 2021 with Dr. Stefano Menegatti.
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Parthi served as a postdoc from 2019-2021, and he is currently a Senior Development Engineer at Sarcura GmbH.
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Chuck completed his Masters in Biomedical Engineering in 2020, and he currently works as a researcher at Duke University.
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Kevin completed his doctorate in Chemical Engineering in 2020 with Dr. Stefano Menegatti, and he currently works as a Supply Chain Engineer at Intel.
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Ashlyn completed her doctorate in Biomedical Engineering in 2020, and she currently works as a research fellow at Beckton-Dickinson in North Carolina.
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Kristina completed her doctorate in Biomedical Engineering in 2020 with Dr. Scott Magness, and she currently works as a researcher at Novo Nordisk in Denmark.
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Murat completed his doctorates in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Textiles in 2020, and he currently works as a researcher at Facebook VR in Washington.
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Peter completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2020. with Dr. Alper Bozkurt.
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Patrick completed his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering in 2019, and he currently works as a researcher at Canon in Virginia.
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Omar is currently a graduate student at MIT.
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Madison is now a Medical Student at Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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Vladimir served as a postdoc from 2016-2019, and he is currently an Assistant Professor at Florida International University.
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Teng served as a postdoc from 2015-2019, and he is currently a Research Assistant Professor at Duke University.
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Shilpa served as a postdoc from 2016-2018, and she is currently an Assistant Professor at Acharya Insititute of Technology.
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Veronica received doctor of medicine in 2022 from East Carolina University.
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Ethan completed his Masters in Biomedical Engineering in 2017, and he is currently working at Biogen.
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Terrika completed her Masters in Biomedical Engineering in 2017, and she is currently working at Beckton-Dickinson.
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Sidharta currently works as a technical representative for Revvity.
Collaborators
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![biopep-collab]()
Dr. Stefano Menegatti
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![alper-collab]()
Dr. Alper Bozkurt
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![awhl-collab]()
Dr. Ashley Brown
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![Pavlidis]()
Dr. Spyridon Pavlidis
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![Lobaton]()
Dr. Edgar Lobaton
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![Sode]()
Dr. Koji Sode
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![Gluck]()
Dr. Jessica Gluck
