UK Microfluidics Conference Success

The Biodetection Technologies Hub was well represented at the 2nd UK Microfluidics Conference in Leeds this week.

Our congratulations go to Polly Foster, a Leeds-based PhD student, member of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Aerosol Science and proud representative of the Hub.

Polly won the student poster competition by demonstrating her amazing research, which combined drone-based electrostatic collection and microfluidics analysis for characterisation of ice-nucleating particles in the Icelandic sky!

Polly, accompanied by Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova, a researcher at the University of Agriculture of Iceland and president of the Icelandic Aerosol and Dust Association, led a team bringing together ice-nucleating particle identification technology at the University of Leeds, with electrostatic collection technology from the University of Hertfordshire, and Meteorological drone technology from Menapia Ltd.

The award was very well deserved and we can't wait to see what Polly does next!