Autor: Yu Sun

Yu Sun is professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto (Canada), with joint appointments in the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. After obtaining his Ph D in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Yu Sun stayed for a postdoctoral research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zürich). Currently, he is a Mc Lean Senior Faculty Fellow at the University of Toronto and the Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nano Engineering Systems. Xinyu Liu is assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Mc Gill University in Montreal (Canada). After obtaining his Ph D from the University of Toronto, he was post-doc at Harvard university before taking his current position at the Mc Gill University. His research interests are robotics, MEMS/NEMS, and applied microfluidics, also referred to as lab-on-a-chip technologies, with a strong focus on bio-oriented applications.