The Chemical Engineering Department is hosting a special undergraduate lecture about proteins and their applications by Dr. Yael Zilberman-Simakov.
A pizza lunch will be provided, please RSVP if you plan on attending.
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Yael Zilberman-Simakov received her BSc, MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. During her graduate study, she worked on composite sensors based on discotic liquid nanocrystals for detection of volatile organic compounds exhaled from breath, for non-invasive chronic disease diagnostics.
Dr. Zilberman-Simakov conducted her postdoctoral training at Tufts University, one of the leading universities in the Greater Boston region. First, she trained at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, working on the development of microfluidic optical sensors. Next, she trained at the Department of Chemistry, studying catalytic activity of synthetic peptides.
After moving to Canada, she has received a prestigious Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship and was a group leader at Professor Shirley Tang’s lab in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo. She worked in collaboration with LeNano Diagnostics on the development of a portable biosensor based on microfluidics and advanced composite nanomaterials for rapid point-of-care testing of heart failure.
Recently, Dr. Zilberman-Simakov joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo as a lecturer, teaching Engineering Biology and Bioprocess Engineering. Her current research interests lie in the area of noninvasive medical diagnostics, focusing on optoelectronic biological nano-sensors and wearable devices.