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Oliver Vanderpoorten

MSCA Postdoctoral Research Fellow / Ultrasound, Microwaves and Optics

Job description

Keywords:

Nanolithography, Nanoscopy, Nanofluidics, 2PL, STED, Soft lithography, Single molecule diffusional sizing, Protein misfolding disease, Alzheimers, Parkinsons disease  

Oliver Vanderpoorten is a MSCA fellow within the Nanoscopy group and Stroehl lab at UiT (Tromsø). 

Dr. Vanderpoorten uses UV-, and 2-photon lithography to produce nanofluidic chips at UiT to analyze exosomes and protein aggregates in solution without conventional fluorescent labelling. In particular, he is focussed on amyloid-forming species and oligomers related to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson disease and their study on a single molecule level - combining the tools of "Nanolithography - Nanoscopy -  Nanofluidics" to accelerate drug development against amyloid formation and screening for aggregation inhibitors.

Additional interests/projects: Optical trapping, Active colloids, Nanofiltration, 3D microscopy, Organ-on-a-chip

  • Marie Reischke, Oliver Vanderpoorten, Florian Ströhl :
    Rapid prototyping of 1xN multifocus gratings via additive direct laser writing
    Micro and Nano Engineering (MNE) 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Amberley D. Stephens, Ana Fernandez Villegas, Chyi Wei Chung, Oliver Vanderpoorten, Dorothea Pinotsi, Ioanna Mela et al.:
    α-Synuclein fibril and synaptic vesicle interactions lead to vesicle destruction and increased lipid-associated fibril uptake into iPSC-derived neurons
    Communications Biology 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Raphaël P. B. Jacquat, Georg Krainer, Quentin A. E. Peter, Ali Nawaz Babar, Oliver Vanderpoorten, Catherine K. Xu et al.:
    Single-Molecule Sizing through Nanocavity Confinement
    Nano Letters 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Oliver Vanderpoorten, Ali N. Babar, G Krainer, Raphaël P. B. Jacquat, Pavan K. Challa, Quentin Peter et al.:
    Nanofluidic Traps by Two-Photon Fabrication for Extended Detection of Single Macromolecules and Colloids in Solution
    ACS Applied Nano Materials 2022 DOI
  • Oliver Vanderpoorten, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia :
    Nanolithography, Nanoscopy, Nanofluidics: Hybrid 2-photon lithography for wafer-scale nanofluidic chip fabrication and single molecule sizing in solution
    2022
  • Oliver Vanderpoorten :
    BLACKOUT-Festival stage contribution 2022: "Full spectrum" (outdoor art event and installations)
    Blackout: Kultur-lysvandring - Nordlysfestivalen 2022 DATA
  • Oliver Vanderpoorten, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia :
    Nanofluidic chips for sizing of single molecules and nanoparticles in solution
    2022
  • Oliver Vanderpoorten, Cristhian Cañari-Chumpitaz, Katherinne I. Requejo, William J. Van Patten, Trevor GrandPre, Carlos J. Bustamante :
    Correlative fluorescence microscopy and optical trapping for Janus particle force spectroscopy and self-assembly
    2022
  • Oliver Vanderpoorten :
    Microfluidics and nanofabrication at UiT: Tools for making and studying small things
    2022
  • Laia Hernandez Marco, Oliver Vanderpoorten, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia :
    Nanofluidics as new analysis method in neurodegeneration and protein misfolding disease research
    2022
  • Oliver Vanderpoorten, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia :
    “N3: Hybrid 2-photon lithography for wafer-scale nanofluidic chip fabrication”
    2022
  • Ida Sundvor Opstad, Oliver Vanderpoorten :
    Panel discussion: Interdisciplinary research, diversity and career in photonics
    2022
  • Oliver Vanderpoorten :
    FSK-8005 Success Stories - "How to be a successful scientist"
    2022
  • Oliver Vanderpoorten :
    IMB Seminar: Micro-, and nanofluidic technology at UiT
    2022
  • Oliver Vanderpoorten :
    "Science&art" workshop/how to organize and communicate scienitific and creative outreach events in an effective manner
    2022
  • Oliver Vanderpoorten, Anastasia Deyko :
    Science transformed to art during Norwegian polar nights
    Art&science interview; Online exhibition 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Oliver Vanderpoorten, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia :
    Hybrid 2-photon lithography for wafer-scale nanofluidic chip fabrication
    2021
  • Krishna Agarwal, Oliver Vanderpoorten :
    ”How to catch a cold” – Nanofluidic chips for trapping of biological nanoparticles
    digitallifenorway.org 2021

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    CV

    Oliver Vanderpoorten is a MSCA fellow in the field of nanofluidics within the Ultrasound, Microwaves and Optics of UiT. Formerly, he received his PhD at the Centre for Misfolding Disease at the University of Cambridge where he conducted research on nanolithography and nanoscopy methods for the analysis of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease related protein aggregates. He holds two master degrees in engineering subjects which give him an applied attitude towards biotechnological applications: a Master in Electrical and Microsystems Engineering from OTH Regensburg (2015) and a second Master's degree in Sensor Technologies from the University of Cambridge (2016). During his PhD in the EPSRC funded Sensor CDT he explored the landscape of nanofluidic chips for various applications related to life sciences and protein misfolding diseases and developed 2-photon lithography as fabrication method for nanofluidic devices. In his free time he's interested in entrepreneurship, sailing, painting and spends his time with outreach at the Erasmus Student Network Tromsø (Vice-president) and by supporting the Arctic Optica Student chapter to explain science to the public in an informal way. (https://youtu.be/TPJPYvumErM?t=100)