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Education

Professional Experience

Skills

Languages

Programming & Simulation

Prototyping

  • Spanish (Native)

  • Swiss German dialect (Native)

  • English (Full proficiency)

  • German (Full proficiency)

  • Matlab (or R)

  • Python

  • COMSOL Multiphysics

  • Basics of Machine Learning

  • Visual 3D (Biomechanics)

  • CAD Design (Solidworks)

  • PCB Design (Eagle)

  • 3D Printing (FDM, Multimaterial, Inkjet)

  • Arduino

  • Raspberry Pi

Extracurricular Activities

Entrepreneur in Residence, Antler VC

Mai 2022 - August 2022, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Antler is global early stage Venture Capital (VC) . Learned and implemented the Lean Startup Framework; evaluating market opportunities, validated learning, costumer development, competitor analysis, business model design and calculating cash flows and burn rate. Founded Athlima, a mobile game that aims to promote physical activity and exercise implementing gamification, virtual and Augmented reality. Prepared the pitch deck and gained experiences pitching to investors.

Founder & CEO, UroSense

September 2020 - June 2022, London, UK

UroSense is commited to help prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) by reengineering the urinary catheter entirely. I was part of Kickstart Global, an accelerator programme for students. Furthemore, I completed several entrepreneurship programmes at UCL and Imperial College London. I won the Moonshot Award at the Imperial College Venture Catalyst Challenge and was finalist at F Factor and the UCLe VC Fund. Moreover I was able to raise £10,000 to build and test our first prototype in-house.

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Research Engineer, SUTD - MIT International Design Center (IDC)

March 2016 - September 2019, Singapore

Redesigned several components and manufacturing processes of the research platforms such as stingray robot, whisker-like sensors, and soft gripper. I was in charge of setting up the workspace, purchasing necessary instruments, tools, software, materials, etc. Played a crucial role in applying for grants, preparing samples and demonstrations. Moreover, I presented our stingray robot at the International Water Week (IWW). Developed silver-based conductive composites and fabricated soft resistive sensors (SRS). Integrated the SRSs into the whisker-like sensors outperforming (regarding noise, resolution, and sensitivity) flexible sensors available in the market. I presented the results at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics 2017 (ROBIO) on the paper “Whisker-like Sensors with Soft Resistive Follicles.” where I also chaired a few sessions.

I designed and fabricated compact and precise rotation speed (RSS) and airflow sensors (AFS) for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
RSSs could measure rotation speeds up to 10Hz, while commercial sensors saturate at 5Hz. Respectively, the AFSs can measure flows of maximal 60m/s matching the performance of current anemometers (expensive alternative). Published paper on rotation speed and airflow sensors in IEEE Sensors Journal, the paper was featured by Nature on the August 2019 issue. Furthermore, the AFS sand RSSs sensors were used to control UAVs. 

 

Teaching Assistant, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)

September 2015 - December 2015, Zurich, Switzerland

I gave exercise sessions in linear algebra to first-year students of the electrical engineering program. Solving systems of linear equations, Gauss algorithm, vector geometry, vector spaces were some of the topics covered. To show the relevance of the material I took examples of my final year classes, such as advanced control theory, image processing, and robotics. I encouraged students to help me solve the problems and also thought the basics of Matlab. Attendance was not mandatory, nonetheless by the end of the semester I had an average of 18 students (from a total of 25) in class.

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Bachelor Thesis, Winterthur Instruments

January 2015 - June 2015, Winterthur, Switzerland

Built a prototype for a high-resolution infrared camera combining images from visible-light (Picam) and infrared (FLIR Systems) cameras. I did the image processing on a Raspberry Pi 2 with Linux as the operating system, and, wrote the code in Python. Made use of filters found in the OpenCV library to enhance the Picam images and implemented the nearest neighbor interpolation method to resize the infrared images. I also created a function and color palette to convert the greyscale picture into a thermal image. Due to the relevance of the project FLIR engineers attended my thesis defense.

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Visiting Student, University of Tokyo

December 2014, Tokyo Japan

In 10 days at ISI, I learned the fundamentals of designing and fabricate pouch actuators and developed 1 degree of freedom (DOF) actuators. I came up with a novel walking mechanism and built the first quadruped walking robot using pouch actuators. Adapt the Arduino code to control the robot was also part of the project.

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Intern Research & Development, greenTEG AG

September 2014 - March 2015, Zurich Switzerland

Designed and fabricated electronic circuits for thermoelectric sensors. I developed a stand-alone low-energy Bluetooth module (BLE), to send data acquired from the sensors to an Android smartphone or tablet. I chose the suitable components and improved the existing data acquisition circuit with an analog to digital converter, capable of communicating via I2C with the BLE. I programmed the BLE module and the Android application. To this day the device is used to demonstrate greenTEG sensors to clients.

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Research Assistant, Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)

September 2013 - January 2015, Zurich Switzerland

Gained practical experience with magnetic sensors (analog, digital, programmable). I supported master students with their final projects designing and building electronic circuits for data acquisition and signal processing for the corresponding sensors. I programmed user applications in Labview to analyze and evaluate the information. I also wrote my semester project, focusing on the development of 3D magnetic force sensor. I used 2 Hall-effect sensors reducing, power consumption and the amount of data to be processed without sacrificing sensitivity and resolution. I modeled and evaluated different sensor configurations in the presence of magnetic fields using finite element analysis software (COMSOL Multiphysics). The 3D force sensors were integrated into catheters for medical applications.

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Summer Intern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

July 2013 - September 2013

Directly involved in the design, fabrication, and study of self-folding robots. I helped to develop a compressible magnetic coil using copper sheets. Carried on with the previous research on magnetically driven elastic actuators, I modeled the compressive behavior of the cylindrical core (fabricated previously) through free energy models. I implemented and simulated the model in Matlab and carried the experiments. I advanced the design of the core to a spring-like actuator composed of smaller ferromagnetic rings increasing the strain from 0.01% up to 17%. I wrote the paper "Electromagnetically Driven Elastic Actuators" and published it at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics 2014 (ROBIO) where I won the Best Conference Paper Award.

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Intern, University of Zurich

June 2012 - June 2013, Zurich Switzerland

Got introduced in the field of soft robotics, learned about the relevant actuation mechanisms such as pneumatics, granular jamming, and elastic dielectric actuators. As an alternative, I came up with a method to synthesize novel soft materials with ferromagnetic features, and, fabricated a cylindrical core. I modeled the magnetic behavior of the core and verified through experiments. Because of the ferromagnetic properties, the core was able to compress in the presence of external magnetic fields. I presented the preliminary results at the ETH International Workshop on Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation. Soft skills acquired include CAD design with Solidworks, FDM 3D printing, and data analysis with Matlab.

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Research & Development, ESESA

March 2011 - September 2011

Research and Development:

I created the research and development division and introduced the manufacture of printed circuit boards (PCB). I conceived and designed a new elevator display replacing outdated models, reducing the faults and repair time. Enabled the introduction of electronic elevator controls into the company's know-how and processes.
Elevator Technician:
Contributed hands-on help in the workshop, using various tools and machinery (e.g., drills, turning lathes, saws, punch machines), inserting inductors into engines (creating inductor cabling diagrams, soldering inductors, etc.), carrying out maintenance checks and fixing elevator faults. Also assisted in carrying out technical upgrading works and renovations for elevators.

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MSc. Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technologies

University College London (UCL), London, UK   

September 2019 - September 2020

BSc. Electrical Engineering

Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Zurich, Switzerland

September 2011 - July 2016

  • Group representative for the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technologies Cohort (2019 - 2020) 

  • Faculty representative for de UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Medicine (2019 - 2020) 

  • Societies at UCL:  MedTech Society, Entrepreneur Society, Mexican Society (2019 - 2020)

  • Societies at SUTD: PostDoc Society, Graduate Football Team (2017 - 2019)

  • Santander and Future Worlds Seed Prize 2020

  • 1st place at the UCL Innovation and Enterprise Build your own Business: Explore your idea programme, 2020

  • 2st place at the UCL Innovation and Enterprise Build your own Business: Launch your Business programme, 2021

  • Moonshot Award at the Imperial College Venture Catalyst Challenge (VCC), 2021 

  • Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2014

Awards

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