Miniaturization is a popular keyword in modern life. Integrated circuit has squeezed electronic circuits into a small chip. Similarly, integrated optics squeezes optical circuit which previously occupies a big optical table for building the set-up, into a small chip. The same trend is now happening in bio/chemo laboratory. A small chip of the size of a stamp is now replacing the traditional laboratory full of bulky glasswares. Here, drops of biological or chemical fludic samples are stored in small wells of millimeter size, transported and manipulated through channels of micrometer or even nanometer size to mimic the process of a traditional lab. The reaction can then be detected by e.g. optical and video techniques. So, the small chip can represent activities of a laboratory. Surely, this so-called Lab on a  Chip subject is multidisiplinary, where electrical engineers can contribute to the control of the fluids flow; detection, data acquisition, and processing of the reaction results. This guest lecture will discuss the relevance of such technology to Indonesia, e.g. how this will help to solve many public health problems.

Who is the lecturer?
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Gea O.F. Parikesit was born on November 24th, 1978, in Bandung, Indonesia. He got his undergraduate degree from ITB, Bandung and M.Sc. degree from Technische Universiteit Delft (TUD) in The Netherlands both in Applied Physics, in 2001 and 2003, respectively. From 2003 to 2007, he was employed as a Junior Researcher at the Quantitative Imaging group in TUD where he performed research in the project “Nanoscale Electrophoresis”, which led to his Ph.D. degree. Since November 2007, he is employed as a Post-doc. Researcher at the Lab. for Aero and Hydrodynamics in TUD working on using of optical methods and digital image analysis to investigate flows at the nanometer scale. Dr. Parikesit’s research activities are mainly in optics and microfluidics.

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