CV - Christelle Prinz

Contact information:  

Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University,

Box 118, 22100 Lund 

Phone: +46 46 222 4796

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Current position:Professor at the Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University. 

 

Higher education degrees:

 1995: Master degree in Physics, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France.

1994: Bachelor Degree in Physics, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France.

 

Doctoral degree:

1999-12-03     PhD in Polymer Physics, Institut Charles Sadron, Louis Pasteur 

                        University, Strasbourg, France. "Annealed    polyelectrolyte brushes at 

                        the liquid-solid and liquid-air interfaces." Advisor: Mounir Maaloum.

            

Previous positions:

• 2014-05-01 to 2019-04-03: Associate Professor at the Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University. 
• 2007-01-01 to 2014-04-30: Researcher at the Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University. 
• 2005-08-01 to 2006-12-31: postdoctoral position at Lund University (Prof. Fredrik Höök’s group, Division of Solid State Physics) 
• 2003-06-01 to 2005-07-31: postdoctoral position at Lund University (Prof. Lars Montelius’s group, Division of Solid State Physics). 
• 2000-09-01 to 2003-05-31: postdoctoral position at Princeton University (Prof. Robert Austin’s group, Department of Physics). 
• 2000-01-01 to 2000-08-31: Research and Teaching assistant at the Laboratoire de Dynamique des fluides Complexes in Didier Chatenay’s group, Strasbourg, France. (50% research, 50% teaching).

 

Docent

Docent in Physics since June 2011.

 

Teaching experience:

 

Education in pedagogy: 

• 2018: LTH Course “Written Reflection Assignment” (1 week)
• 2017: LTH Course “Communicating Science” (1 week)
• 2016: LTH Course “Ideas for teaching and learning in higher education” (3 weeks)
• 2010: LTH course "Den goda foreläsningen" (2 weeks)
• 2010: LTH workshop "Pedagogisk portfölj" (1 week)
• 2009: LTH Docent course (3 weeks)

 

 

Summer school lectures / Tutorials:

• Lecture on nanowires-cells studies,14th IUVSTA School on Nano-Optics, from Principles to Basic Research and Applications, Braga, Portugal, April 11-15. 2016
• Lecture on Fluorescence microscopy, Imaging at the NanoscaleSummer School, Ven, Aug 18-21 2015.
• Tutorial P, Emerging Applications of Nanowires in Life Science and Optoelectronics, MRS Fall meeting, Boston, USA, 29^thNovember 2015.

 

 

Class-room teaching: 

 

• 2015-2019: Course responsible for the course “Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: an introduction” (code FFFA02, Credits: 7.5 ECTS, 60 Students), Lund University.
• Spring 2017 and 2019: lecture on super resolution microscopy in the course surface and colloid Chemistry (code KEMB07), Lund University.
• 2011-2014: Co-course responsible for the course “Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: an introduction” (code FFFA01, Credits: 7 ECTS, 60 Students), Lund University.
• Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014: Co-responsible (60%) for the course “Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: an introduction” (code FFFA01, Credits: 7 ECTS, 56 Students), Lund University.
• Spring 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017: Lecture and Seminar on Nanosafety in the Experimental Biophysics course (codes TEK265, FYST23 and FAF010F, Credits: 15 ECTS, 20 students), Lund University.
• Spring 2010: Lecture (2 hours) and Seminar (2 hours) on NeuroBiophysics and Nanostructured Surfaces in the Experimental Biophysics course (codes TEK265, FYST23 and FAF010F) (24 students), Lund University.
• Fall 2009: Invited research seminar in the Kvantfenomen och nanoteknologi course (code FAFA10, Credits: 9ECTS, 20 students),  Lund University.
• 1999-2000:      Introductory Physics for biology major classes (Exercise classes) 105 hours, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg.
• 1998-1999:      Introductory Physics for biology major classes (Exercise classes) 64 hours, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg.
• 1997-1998:      Lab Courses in experimental physics for teacher certification preparation classes, 97h.Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg.
• 1996-1997:      Lab Courses in polymer physics, 75hours, « Ecole de Chimie des Polymères et Matériaux » (Engineering school) Strasbourg.

 

Postdoctoral researcher supervision:

 

• Since 1/05/2019, Diogo Volpati: Epigenetic modification of cells using nanotubes for diabetes applications.
• Since 1/09/2017, Martin Hjort: Cell sensing and perturbation using nanotubes.
• Since 1/07/2017, Elke Hebisch: STED microscopy on living cells.
• Since 1/09/2016, Mercy Lard: Design of hollow nanowires for cell sensing.
• 1/02/2012- 31/01/2016, Aleksandra Dabkowska (co-advisor): investigation of supported lipid bilayers on vertical nanowire arrays (now permanent researcher at Astra Zeneca, Mölndal).
• 1/02/2011-1/08/2013, Gaelle Offranc-Piret: Investigation of the effects of nanowire on retinal cells. (Now permanent researcher with an ERC Starting Grant at INSERM, Grenoble, France).

 

 

Graduate Student supervision:

 

Date	Name	Supervision	Project
Since 1/09/18	Therese Olsson	Main Supervisor	Manipulation and interrogation of individual cells using nanotubes.
Since 1/08/17	Karolina Mothander	Co supervisor	Investigation of nanowire-bilayer interactions using neutron scattering techniques.
15/05/16-1/10/16	Inga von Ahnen	Main supervisor	Interrogation of living cells with nanowires.
1/08/14-19/10/18	Laura Abariute	Main supervisor	Interactions of living cells with nanowires.
1/09/13-9/02/18	Li Zhen	Main supervisor	Mechanosensing with nanowires.
1/10/11-28/04/17	Karl Adolfsson	Main supervisor	Nanowire toxicity in Drosophila melanogaster.
1/10/10 30/09/16	Lina Gällentoft	Co supervisor	Nanowires and Neural interfaces. Biocompatibility in the brain
1/07/09 19/09/14	Henrik Persson	Co supervisor	Nanowires for Cell Biology
1/06/09-23/04/10	Waldemar Hällström	Co Supervisor	Nanowires for cell research

 

 

Master Student supervision:

 

Date	Name	Supervision	Project
2019	Claudia Gösenbauer	Main supervisor	Fate of nanodiamonds in living cells
2016	Karolina Mothander	Main supervisor	Studies of glial cells on nanostructures
2012	Shantonu Biswas	Main supervisor	Nanowire solar cells for neuronal stimulation
2010	Pardis Sahafi	Main supervisor	Nanowire array fabrication for cellular mechanosensing application
2009	Greger Hammarin	Main supervisor	Nanowire toxicity in Drosophila melanogaster
2008	Henrik Persson	Main supervisor	Cell compression and axonal stretching in microfluidics
2007	Konstantin Vogel	Co Supervisor	A method for detecting nanowires in the brain

 

 

 

Funding

 

Period	Source	Application	Total amount	Project/Purpose
2020-2023	Swedish Research Council	Main applicant	4,200,000 SEK	Nanotube-assisted direct cargo delivery to the cytosol for precise and efficient live-cell manipulation and sensing.
2019	The Crafoord Foundation	Main applicant	400,000 SEK	Acquisition of a fow cytometer
2019-2021	Swedish Strategic Research Foundation	Main applicant	7,800,000 SEK	Developing a nanoinjection method for genetic and epigenetic editing of stem cells.
2017-2020	Australian Research Council	Co-applicant	430,500 AUD	Bioelectronic logic: understanding ion-electron interactions relevant to bioelectronics, and creating transducing interfaces.
2017-2020	Swedish Research Council	Co-applicant	2,160,000 SEK	Restoring sight by technical means – developing nanoelectrodes for better intraocular implants
2016-2021	ERC Consolidator Grant	Main applicant	2,621,000 €	NanoPokers: Deciphering cell heterogeneity in tumors using arrays of nanowires to controllably poke single cells in longitudinal studies
2016	The Crafoord Foundation	Co-Applicant	200,000 SEK	Restoring sight by technical means – developing nano-electrodes for better intraocular implants
2016-2019	Swedish Research Council	Main Applicant	3,400,000 SEK	Nanosensors and nano-injection tools for long-term studies of tumors at the single cell level
2015	The Crafoord Foundation	Main Applicant	200,000 SEK	Acquisition of a Phase Holographic Microscope
2013	Carl Trygger Foundation	Main applicant	333,000 SEK	The use of giant unilamellar vesicles for lipid membrane-nanowire interaction studies as a model system for the development of novel cellular sensing
2012	FORMAS	Co-applicant	200,000 SEK	Sponsor of the 26th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society
2012	The Crafoord foundation	Main applicant	200,000 SEK	Purchase a microscope stage cell incubator
2011-2013	Swedish Research Council	Main applicant	1,800,000 SEK	Fruit flies meet nanowires: Nanowire-based investigation of morphogenesis and evaluation of nanowire toxicity in Drosophila melanogaster

 

 

 

 

Other information:

 

Invited, keynote and plenary talks:

• Nanowires interfacing living cells. Materials and Formulations at Biointerfaces conference, Malmö, Sweden, October 23-25 2019.
• Live cell interfaces with nanomaterials, Protein Science day, Lund University, October 15^th2019.
• Bio-applications of semiconductor nanowires. Invited presentation. IVC-21, Malmö, Sweden, July 1-5 2019.
• Bio-applications of semiconductor nanowires. Invited presentation. 4th conference Euro Intelligent Materials, Kiel, Germany, June 17-19 2019.
• Nanowires for bio-applications, Nano-M&D 2019 International conference, Paestum, Italy, June 4-8 2019.
• Nanowires for bioapplications. 14^thIUPAC International Conference on Novel Materials and their Synthesis, Guangzhou, China 21-25 October 2018.
• Semiconductor nanowires for biology applications.Invited presentation.24th International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals (ICSM 2018), Busan, Korea, 1-6 July 2018.
• Semiconductor nanowires for biology applications. Keynote presentation. 1st Meeting of the Swedish Chemical Society, Lund, June 17-20, 2018.
• Bioapplications of nanowires. Invited presentation. Nanowire Week 2018, Hamilton, Canada, June 11-15, 2018.
• Nanowires for neural interface applications. Invited presentation. Neural interfaces Conference, Bar Ilan University, Israel, March 5-7, 2018
• Interactions between nanowires and living cells.63^rdInternational Electron Devices Meetings, San Francisco, USA, December 2-6, 2017.
• Semiconductor nanowires for biology applications.Invited presentation. International conference on functional nanomaterials and nanodevices, Budapest, Hungary, September 24-27 2017.
•  Interactions of semiconductor nanowires with living cells and tissues.Invited presentation. XXV International Materials Research Congress, Cancun, Mexico, August 14-19 2016.
• Semiconductor Nanowires for Neural Interface Applications. Invited presentation. CIMTEC 2016 -11th International Conference on Medical Applications of Novel Biomaterials and Nanotechnology, Perugia, Italy, June 4-9 2016.
• Nanowires for neural interfaces. Invited presentation, Nanoscience for human health conference, Göteborg, Dec 16-17 2015.
• Interactions of semiconductor nanowires with living cells and tissues. Invited presentation, Symposium L: “Nanofunctional Materials, Nanostructures and Nano-devices for Biomedical Applications”,Material Research Society (MRS) Fall meeting Boston, Nov 29^th - Dec 4^th, USA.
• When Nanowires Meet Biology: From Applications to Nanotoxicology. Invited Presentation, Symposium P: “Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures”Material Research Society (MRS) Fall meeting Boston, Nov 29^th-  Dec 4^thUSA.
• Semiconductor Nanowires, A Promising Tool For Cell Sensing.Invited presentation, Bio-nanotech Montreux Conference, Montreux, Switzerland, Nov 16-18 2015.
• Semiconductor Nanowires, A Promising Tool For Cell Sensing.Invited presentation, Micro and Nano Engineering, The Hague, The Netherlands, Sept 21-14 2015.
• Investigation of the interactions between epitaxial nanowires and living cells. Keynote presentation at minicolloqium Nanomaterials I at the “Condensed Matter in Paris Conference”, Paris, France, Aug 24-29, 2014.
• Nanowires: a promising tool for neural implant applications. Invited presentation.CIMTEC 2014 - 6th Forum on New Materials, Montecatini Terme, Italy, June 8-20, 2014.
• Nanowire interactions with living cells and lipid membranes. Invited presentation. Energy Materials Nanotechnology Fall meeting, Orlando, USA, Dec 7-10 2013.
• Nanowires in Biology: from Applications to Nanotoxicology. Invited presentation. International Symposium on Carbon Electronics, Seoul, Korea,  May 4-9, 2013.
• Nanowires in Biology: from Applications to Nanotoxicology. Plenary presentation. Sixth International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. Auckland, New Zealand, Feb 11-15 2013.
• Nanowires in Biology: from Applications to Nanotoxicology. Keynote presentation. Materials Science and Engineering Conference 2012, Darmstadt, Germany, Sept 25-27 2012.
• Nanowire biocompatibility in vitro and in vivo. Invited short presentation. 2^ndItalian-Swedish Workshop on Health Impacts of Engineered Nanomaterials, Stockholm, June 15-16 2012.
• Nanowires in Biology: from Applications to Nanotoxicology. Invited presentation.GDR « Semiconductor nanowires and nanotubes » plenary workshop, Porquerolles, France, Oct 17-21, 2011.
• Nanowires in Biology: from Applications to Nanotoxicology. Invited presentation. 1rst International Conference on Small Science, Sydney, Australia, Aug 13-18, 2011.
• Development of nanowire neural electrodes.Invited presentation. Nanotechnology for Biotech applications workshop, Göteborg, Feb. 10^th2011.
• Sensing with nanowires.Invited presentation. Sensing the Future Workshop, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Nov. 23-24 2010.
• Semi conductor Nanowires in Biology. Invited presentation. 6^th IUPAC International Symposium on Novel Materials and their Synthesis, Wuhan, China, October 11-14, 2010.
• Nanowires in Biology: from Applications to Nanotoxicology.Invited presentation.International Vacuum Congress, Beijing, China, Aug. 23-27 2010.
• Development of nanowire-based neural electrodes.Invited presentation.Label-free nanosensors workshop. DTU, Lyngby, Denmark, May 19th 2010.
• Semi conductor Nanowires in Biology. Riken/Lund/Harvard joint Symposium, Riken, Japan, November 16-17 2009.
• Guiding, Rectifying and Sorting of Regenerating Axons by Free Standing Nanowire Patterns: A highway for Nerve Fibers.Invited presentation.International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIBPN) Marco Island, USA, May 26-29 2009.

Service

 

Institutional responsibilities

• Spring 2019-now : Member of the NanoLund management group, Lund University.
• 2018-now: Member of the divisional strategy group, Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University.
• 2011-now: Facultymember,Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University.
• 2011-now : Memberofthedivisional leadership committee, Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University.
• 2015-now : Memberofthe Lund Nano Lab reference group, Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University.
• 2014-2017 Board-Member (Suppleant) Department of Physics board.
• 2015-now: Deputy coordinator for Lund Nano Characterization Lab (LNCL), NanoLund.

 

Editorial responsibilities

• 2016 - now : Editorial board member, Scientific Reports

 

Evaluator/Reviewer

• 2019: External reviewer, Helmholtz Impulsefond, Germany.
• 2019: External Reviewer, Israel Science Foundation.
• 2019: External Reviewer, Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.
• 2017-now: Scientific Advisory Board member, Research Training Group GRK 2154 "Materials for Brain", Kiel University, Germany.
• 2017: Reviewer in the scientific evaluation of Forschungszentrum Jülich, field Key Technologies.
• 2016: Vetenskapsrådet (VR), NT15-Applied Physics evaluation panel member.
• 2015-2019: International Program Committee member, MNE conference.
• 2015Grant Reviewer for the French National Alliance for Life and Health Sciences and French National Cancer Institute.
• 2015-2017 International Advisory Board Member of the Focused Session "Materials Issues for Implantable Neural Interfaces" of the 11th International Conference "Medical Applications of Novel Biomaterials and Nanotechnology" of CIMTEC 2016, Italy.
• 2015Grant reviewer for Cal-Brain (California Blueprint for Research to Advance Innovations in Neuroscience) Seed Grant Program USA.
• 2015Evaluation Committee member, High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education, France.
• 2012: Grant Reviewer for the French National Research Agency (ANR).
• Reviewer in journals: Advanced Materials, Langmuir, Journal of Materials Science, Sensors and Actuators A, Advanced Biomaterials, Acta Biomaterialia, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, Lab on a Chip, Microelectronic Engineering, Nano Letters, Nature Nanotechnology, Nano Today, ACS Nano, Nanoscale.

 

 

PhD committees

• Committee member, Paul Villard PhD thesis, June 14^th2019, INSERM, Grenoble, France.
• Committee member, Katharina Klöditz PhD thesis, May 10^th2019, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.
• Committee member, Lovisa Söderberg PhD thesis, Nov 17^th2017, KTH, Stockholm.
• Opponent - Adrien Casanova PhD thesis, November 24^th2016, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France.
• Opponent - Kristin Hyltegren’s licentiate thesis, November 18^th2016, Lund University.
• Committee member - Déborah Rupert’s thesis, December 15^th2015, Chalmers University of Technology.
• Opponent - Azeem Zulfiqar’s PhD thesis. August 31^st2015, DTU, Denmark.
• Opponent - Konstantin Vogel’s Ph. D thesis. October 21^st2014, Bremen University, Germany.
• Committee member - Anna Annarsson’s Ph. D thesis, June 11^th2014, Lund University, Sweden.
• Opponent - Rafal Wierzbicki ‘s Ph. D thesis. August 29^th2013, DTU, Denmark.
• Opponent - Malak Safi’s Ph.D thesis. January 17^th2012, Université Paris Diderot-Paris VII, France.
• Opponent - Patricia Vasquez’s Ph.D thesis. April 15^th2011, DTU, Denmark.

 

Conference organization

• Co-Chair, Super Resolution Microscopy Workshop, Lund, Sweden, May 28-29, 2018.
• Co-Chair, Materials for Neural Interfacessymposium at the Materials Research Science (MRS) fall meeting, Boston, Nov 27^th-Dec 1^st2017 (≈ 100 participants).
• Local organizing committee member, Micro-Nano System Workshop, Lund, May 17-18 2016 (100 participants)
• 2013-2014: Organizer of the Nanoscience Colloquium Series at the Nanometer Structure Consortium.
• Co-Chair, Materials for Neural Interfacessymposium at the Materials Research Science (MRS) fall meeting, Boston, Dec 1-5, 2013 (40 participants)
• Local organizing committee member, European Colloid and Interface SocietyConference (ECIS 2012), Lund/Malmö Sept 2-7 2012. (451 participants)
• Nanomedicineworkshop, Lund, Sept 6^th2011 (≈100 Participants).