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Petra Dittrich Is a Associate Professor at ETH Basel Switzerland Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering short D-BSSE and principal investigator of the bioanalytics group since 2014.

Field of research
Focus of her research is on miniaturization of high-sensitivity devices for chemical and biological analyses and microfluidic-aided organization of materials aka lab-on-chip technology with use in life sciences. The interdisciplinary approach combines many aspects of microfluidics-based technology including chemical, physical, biological and engineering aspects, which can best be categorized in three topics. Microfluidics: Chip design, microfabrication, integrated components such as valves, multilayer microchips, interfaces, droplet microfluidics, surface patterning.

Cells and Membranes: Cell and liposome analytical screening platforms, cell and vesicle immobilization, single-cell analysis; creation of vesicles.

Detection: Fluorescence spectroscopy and related sensitive techniques such as TIRF (Total internal reflection fluorescence microscope) and FCS (Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy), immunoassays and mass spectrometry.

Academic career
She was born in 1974 in Lingen/Ems(Germany) and studied chemistry at Bielefeld University (Germany) and Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) from 1993 to 1999. She received her PhD received from the Max Plank-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (MPI Göttingen, Germany) in 2003 for her thesis on single fluorescent molecule spectroscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy in microfluidic channels. She stayed for another year as a postdoctoral fellow and continued as a postdoc at the Institute for Analytical Science (ISAS Dortmund, Germany) from 2004 to 2008. Additionally, she carried out academic stays she at the Cornell University (2002) and the University of Tokyo (2005). 2008, she became Assistant Professor at the Organic Chemistry Laboratories of the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences (ETH Zurich).

Efforts
fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

German Exchange Organization DAAD

Christiane Nüsslein-Vollhard-foundation

Awards
Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft

Starting Grant from the European Research Commission (ERC) (2008)

Analytica Forschungspreis of the German Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM), donated by Roche Diagnostics GmbH (2010)

Heinrich Emanuel Merck award (2015)

ERC Consolidator Grant (2016)

Publications
1.	Dittrich, P. S. & Manz, A. Lab-on-a-chip: Microfluidics in drug discovery. Nat. Rev. Drug Discov. 5, 210–218 (2006).

2.	Dittrich, P. S., Tachikawa, K. & Manz, A. Micro total analysis systems. Latest advancements and trends. Anal. Chem. 78, 3887–3907 (2006).

3.	Armbrecht, L. & Dittrich, P. S. Recent Advances in the Analysis of Single Cells. Anal. Chem. 89, 2–21 (2017).