Sabina Merlo

Sabina Merlo is a Full Professor at the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, University of Pavia, and leads the Electrooptics Laboratory. Her research focuses on optical biosensors, photonic crystals, and MEMS/MOEMS for biomedical applications.

• Education: Laurea in Electronic Engineering (Politecnico di Milano), Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering
• Awards: Edmund Optics Educational Award Finalist (2015), Premio Ordine degli Ingegneri di Pavia (2010)
• Students: Supervised over 40 thesis students in biomedical and electronic engineering, including Irene Bassi, Elena Figus, and Alberto Simoni
• Publications: 15+ peer-reviewed papers on tunable micro-lenses, near-infrared sensing, and interferometric biosensors
• Projects: Involved in funded research on optical tomography for cancer detection (2011), cell monitoring (2009), and optofluidic biosensors (2007)