Jessika Jessika

Jessika is a doctoral student at the Division of Nanobiotechnology at SciLifeLab, pursuing a PhD in Biotechnology with Herland Lab. She earned her MSc in Nanotechnology from KTH, specialising in nanoelectronics/bioMEMS, and her BSc in Biomedical Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB, Indonesia), with a focus on biomedical instrumentation and intelligent system. Jessika embarked on her master's study under a full-ride scholarship from the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture.

Current Projects

Her research for the PhD projects focuses on exploring microscale in vitro and in vivo medical technologies for diabetes study and therapeutics. Jessika primarily works on the fabrication and integration of biomedical microsystems, both for cellular functionality monitoring and local pharmacological intervention for pancreatic islet transplantation. She is also working on the development of organic electronics for electrogenic cells based on multiphoton lithography and ultrafast laser patterning.

Previous Projects

Jessika has engaged in a diverse range of interdisciplinary research across biomedical engineering domains, including biomedical instrumentation, machine learning, biosensors, and biomedical microsystems. Her undergraduate final-year research at ITB's Lab-on-Chip Research Group focused on fabric-based non-enzymatic electrochemical biosensors for glucose detection. After earning her BSc in 2020, Jessika was assigned on dual roles as a research assistant in the same group and an embedded systems engineer on a diagnostic 12-channel ECG for another joint industrial research project. Following her master's study, she conducted her master's thesis project at KTH's Division of Micro and Nanosystems, where she developed an in-vitro organoid electrophysiological recording platform for mice pancreatic islets. This work expanded into a role as a research engineer in a project aimed to integrate transgenic mice pancreatic islets with optoelectronic fluorescence recording devices. Here, Jessika focused on the design, microfabrication, and evaluation of biohybrid implantable structures utilising direct laser writing (DLW) with two-photon polymerisation (TPP).