News from the lab: Doctoral Candidate Chiara Giustini
If you are wondering what is going on in the ECLectic DN labs, a series of videos is coming up to help us understand the work behind each doctoral research project.
Chiara Giustini is a PhD student at CIC biomaGUNE, Spain and she is part of the team of researchers of ECLectic Doctoral Network.

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Meet our doctoral candidate Ezequiel Rubiales Romero
Meet our doctoral candidate: Ezequiel Rubiales Romero from Spain 🇪🇸
As part of the ECLectic doctoral network, he will work on the selection and production of recombinant antibodies (rAb) using “phage display” techniques for biomarker analysis at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain 🇪🇸) with Professor Elena Benito Peña.
Recently he completed his MSc in Biotechnology at the University of Glasgow, with the project “Investigating Next-Generation Sequencing for Diagnosis and Research of CAG Polyglutamine Disease, Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy”.
If you want to know more, click the button below and read his full bio and the description of his doctoral project in the dedicated section.
Meet our doctoral candidate Claudia Martínez Asenjo
Meet our doctoral candidate: Claudia Martínez Asenjo from Spain 🇪🇸
As part of the ECLectic doctoral network, she will work on the ECL mechanism insight during the so-called co-reactant mechanism at University of Bologna (Italy 🇮🇹) under the supervision of Professor Giovanni Valenti.
Recently she obtained her Master’s Degree in Electrochemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) with an experimental thesis on the design and synthesis of new nanomaterials for the electrocatalysis of energy conversion reactions.
If you want to know more, click the button below and read her full bio and the description of her doctoral project in the dedicated section.
Meet our doctoral candidate Tereza Jahodová
Meet our doctoral candidate: Tereza Jahodová from Czech Republic 🇨🇿
As part of the ECLectic network, she will focus on the point of care microfluidic tool development at Dynamic Biosensors (Germany 🇩🇪) under the supervision of prof. Alice Soldà.
She recently graduated at Uppsala University in Sweden, where she took an interest in investigating the biophysical properties of molecular interactions using the switchSENSE technology.
If you want to know more, click the button below and read her full bio and the description of her doctoral project in the dedicated section.
Meet our doctoral candidate Abdulkadir Sadiq
Meet our doctoral candidate: Abdulkadir Sadiq from Nigeria 🇳🇬
He will investigate the analytical performances of a lab-on-a-chip device for bacteria quantification at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany 🇩🇪) under the supervision of prof. Siegbert Rieg.
He recently completed his master’s degree in Biotechnology at the Universiti Malaya in Malaysia with a thesis focused on the anti-virulence potential of a synthesized compound against Staphylococcus aureus.
If you want to know more, click the button below and read his full bio and the description of his doctoral project in the dedicated section.
Meet our doctoral candidate Stephania Rodríguez Muiña
Meet our doctoral candidate: Stephania Rodríguez Muiña from Spain 🇪🇸
She will work on developing an integrated microfluidic platform for the multiplex detection of sepsis biomarkers at BCMaterials (Spain 🇪🇸) under the supervision of Professor F. Javier del Campo García.
Recently she developed a flexible electrochemical biosensor platform for cell culture monitoring at the CRNL and Laboratoire Ampère in Lyon.
If you want to know more, click the button below and read her full bio and the description of her doctoral project in the dedicated section.
Meet our doctoral candidate Wissal El Majdoub
Meet our doctoral candidate: Wissal El Majdoub from France 🇫🇷
She will work on developing a micro- and nano-channels platform for ECLectic at Stichting imec Nederland (The Netherlands 🇳🇱) under the supervision of Professor Klaus Mathwig.
She recently obtained a MEng degree in Chemistry from the Graduate School of Food Science, Materials Science, and Chemistry in Bordeaux (France 🇫🇷), where she focused on nano and microtechnologies, with a particular emphasis on addressing pressing health-related challenges.
If you want to know more, click the button below and read her full bio and the description of her doctoral project in the dedicated section.
Meet our doctoral candidate Luigi Dragonetti
Meet our doctoral candidate: Luigi Dragonetti from Italy 🇮🇹
He will work on developing a sample-to-answer biosensor based on the electrode switchable DNA based nanolever at Dublic City University (Ireland 🇮🇪) under the supervision of Professor Robert Forster.
He recently obtained his Master Degree at the University of Bologna (Italy 🇮🇹) with a thesis focusing on the production and characterization of metal thin films, developing operational skills in SECM and XPS techniques.
If you want to know more, click the button below and read his full bio and the description of his doctoral project in the dedicated section.
Meet our doctoral candidate Elisa D'Arrigo
Meet our doctoral candidate: Elisa D’Arrigo from Italy 🇮🇹
Elisa D’Arrigo will work on ECL from small cells at University of Bordeaux (France 🇫🇷) under the supervision of Professor Neso Sojic.
Over the last year, she was employed as a research fellow in the laboratory of Cellular Chemistry and Functional Imaging at the Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician” of Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
If you want to know more, click the button below and read her full bio and the description of her doctoral project in the dedicated section.


