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Employment and Education
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
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Grand Prize at Penn State ESM Today Graduate Research Symposium, 2009
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Third Prize at Penn State ESM Today Graduate Research Symposium, 2010
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CHEMINAS Young Researcher Poster Award at 15th International Conference on MicroTAS, San Diego, USA, 2011
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National Science Foundation (NSF) funded 8th annual education workshop on How to Engineer Engineering Education held at Bucknell University, USA, 2011
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First Prize at Presentation at Penn State ESM Today Graduate Research Symposium, 2012
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First Prize Poster Award at Penn State ESM Today Graduate Research Symposium, 2013
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Innovative Incentive Award achieved from Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2014
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ETH Zürich Career Seed Grant on Programmable soft complex 3D-shaped particles fabrication using continuous –flow lithography, 2017
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European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, awarded ~1.5 Million Euro on Acousto- Magnetic Micro/Nanorobots for Biomedical Applications (SONOBOTS), 2019
Invited talks
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Invited talk on Soft Acoustic Microswimmers in the Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2012
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Invited talk on Autonomous Artificial Swimmers in Materials Research Institute (MRI), Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2012
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Invited talk on Microrobots in acoustic field at the Institute of Fluid Dynamics at Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2015
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Guest Lecturer on Artificial micro/nanorobots in 3rd SELECTA Workshop, Austria, 2016
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Invited talk on Microswimmers in acoustic and magnetic field at the International Conference: Microswimmers – From single particle motion to collective behaviour, Bonn, Germany, 2016
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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
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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
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Invited talk on Advancing Micro/nanorobotics in Medicine in the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2019
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Invited talk on Acoustic-based Micro/nanorobotics HEART conference, Cluj Napoca, Romania, 2019
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Invited talk on Acousto-magnetic micro/nanorobotic systems, MARSS, Helsinki, Finland. 2019
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Invited talk on Micro and Nanorobotics in Medicine, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany, 2019
Contact information
Daniel Ahmed
Email: dahmed@ethz.ch