01/20- present Assistant Professor of Acoustic Robotics for Life Sciences

and Healthcare

Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT)

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich)

Switzerland

12/17- 30/19 Senior Research Scientist

The Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems

ETH Zurich

Switzerland

08/15- 12/17 Postdoctoral Associate

The Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems

ETH Zurich

Switzerland

2015- 2015 Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering

North South University-Bangladesh

2014- 2015 Founder of Daniel Acoustics

2009- 2013 Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics

Acoustofluidics Lab

Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

The Pennsylvania State University- University Park

2007- 2009 M.S. in Engineering Science

Acoustofluidics Lab

Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

The Pennsylvania State University- University Park

2002- 2006 B.S. (Honors) in Engineering Science

Minor in Mechanics

Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

The Pennsylvania State University- University Park

Awards

Grand Prize at Penn State ESM Today Graduate Research Symposium, 2009
Third Prize at Penn State ESM Today Graduate Research Symposium, 2010
CHEMINAS Young Researcher Poster Award at 15th International Conference on MicroTAS, San Diego, USA, 2011
National Science Foundation (NSF) funded 8th annual education workshop on How to Engineer Engineering Education held at Bucknell University, USA, 2011
First Prize at Presentation at Penn State ESM Today Graduate Research Symposium, 2012
First Prize Poster Award at Penn State ESM Today Graduate Research Symposium, 2013
Innovative Incentive Award achieved from Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2014
ETH Zürich Career Seed Grant on Programmable soft complex 3D-shaped particles fabrication using continuous –flow lithography, 2017
European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, awarded ~1.5 Million Euro on Acousto- Magnetic Micro/Nanorobots for Biomedical Applications (SONOBOTS), 2019

Invited talks

Invited talk on Soft Acoustic Microswimmers in the Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2012
Invited talk on Autonomous Artificial Swimmers in Materials Research Institute (MRI), Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2012
Invited talk on Microrobots in acoustic field at the Institute of Fluid Dynamics at Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2015
Guest Lecturer on Artificial micro/nanorobots in 3rd SELECTA Workshop, Austria, 2016
Invited talk on Microswimmers in acoustic and magnetic field at the International Conference: Microswimmers – From single particle motion to collective behaviour, Bonn, Germany, 2016
Invited talk on Additive Manufacturing themed on Acoustic and magnetic field enabled biomimetic propulsion for targeted therapeutics at the Center for Materials and Processes, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2016
Invited talk on Advancing Acoustic Manipulation for Use in Biomedical Applications in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, 2018
Invited talk on Advancing Micro/nanorobotics in Medicine in the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2019
Invited talk on Acoustic-based Micro/nanorobotics HEART conference, Cluj Napoca, Romania, 2019
Invited talk on Acousto-magnetic micro/nanorobotic systems, MARSS, Helsinki, Finland. 2019
Invited talk on Micro and Nanorobotics in Medicine, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany, 2019

Contact information

Daniel Ahmed