BIO - Dr. Anastasia Elias

I am an Assistant Professor with the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta.  As a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering I developed techniques for patterning a variety of materials on the micro and nanoscale to create thermally and chemically-responsive microactuator devices.  During this degree I spent nearly 2 years in the Netherlands undertaking collaborative research with the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven and Philips Research.  I also worked together with researchers from Brown University to study the alignment of liquid crystals in porous templates. 

 After completing my thesis work I lived in the US for 6 months before returning to Edmonton in August 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Dr. Jillian Buriak of the NRC National Institute for Nanotechnology and the Department of Chemistry.  During this appointment I designed and fabricated microfluidic devices for culturing human cortical neurons, as a part of a collaboration between our group and the group of Dr. Fabrizio Giuliani in the Department of Medicine.  I also completed a study to investigate the stability of gold nanoparticles in human blood products.  This study was undertaken together with Dr. Bruce Ritchie from the Department of Medicine. 

EDUCATION

(2002 – 2007) PhD – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta
(1998 – 2002) BSc in Engineering Physics, University of Alberta