CV
Curriculum Vitae - Dr. Niclas Roxhed
Born 1978, married, five children (b. 2005, 2007, 2013, 2016, 2019)
Home address: Bielkevägen 13, 16733 Bromma, Sweden, Tel. +46 70 744 24 17
https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=jScBK-4AAAAJ&hl=sv&oi=sra
1. University degree (2003)
· M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
· Additional academic course work: Medical Technology, Implants and Biomaterials and Medical Device Regulatory Affairs, Karolinska Institute, Sweden (2004-2007), History of philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden (2002)
2. Doctoral Dissertation (2007)
· MEMS Technology, Ph.D. Thesis title: A Fully Integrated Microneedle-based Transdermal Drug Delivery System, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
3. Post-Doc (2007-2008)
· Microsystem Technology lab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Co-manager of two projects: R&D on uncooled infrared bolometer sensor arrays for automotive night vision and microfludic bio-analysis using microwave spectroscopy.
4. Current Employments (2024-
· Professor, Dept. of Micro and Nanosystems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Team leader for Medical Technology MEMS.
Ongoing supervision:
· Main supervisor for PhD students E. Hedberg, C. Olsson, C. Delmotte, S. Simon-Gut.
· Post-doc supervisor for M. Marques, A. Spyrou, F. Ribet
Finalized supervision:
· H. Gatty (2015), G. Lenk (2018), F. Ribet (2020), J. Hauser (2022), T. Last (2022), M. Sandell (2023), F. Marques (2023), T. Iordanidis (2025), X. Tian (2026)
· Co-supervisor: M. Antelius (2013), F. Forsberg (2014), M. Zhang (2018), X. Wang (2019)
· Affiliated Researcher (2016-2022), Langer lab, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA
Mentor for PhD student A. Abramson (PhD 2018) and M. Verma (PhD 2018)
5. Previous Employments
· Associate Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2013-2024
· Visiting scientist, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, 2016-2017
· Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2009-2012
· Research associate, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2007-2009
· Ph.D. student, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2003-2007
· System architect, Iacto AB, Stockholm, 2000-2001
6. Commissions of Trust
· 2004 Board member, Dept. of Signals, Sensors and System, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
· 2007-ongoing: Reviewer for about 20 scientific journals: Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip, J. of Controlled Release, Pharmaceutical Research, IEEE/ASME J. Microelectromechanical Systems, IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering, Sensors & Actuators A, J. of Materials Processing Technology, J. of Bionic Engineering, J. of Diabetes Science and Technology, Biomedical, Microdevices, Vaccine, Therapeutic Delivery, J. of Engineering in Medicine, IOP J. of Micromechanics and Microeng, Bioanalysis, Microelectronic Engineering, Analytical Chemistry, ACS Nano, Nature Comms, Expert Review of Medical Devices.
· 2008-2015 Management board member, KTH Microfabrication Laboratory (Electrum lab)
· 2010-ongoing: Steering committee member of the International Conference on Microneedles
· 2012-ongoing: Technical program committee member, SPIE Microtechnologies conference: Bio-MEMS and Medical Microdevices
· 2012-2015 Evaluation board member, VINNOVA, VinnVerifiering life science program
· 2014-2017, 2021-2022: Executive Technical Program Committee member, IEEE MEMS conference
· 2021 General Co-chair IEEE 34th Int Conf. on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (IEEE MEMS 2021)
· 2020- Director MedTechLabs, A joint research center on translational medical technology between Karolinska Institutet, KTH and Region Stockholm.
· 2023- Associate Editor IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS)
· 2027 Organizing chair IEEE 23th Int. Conf. on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems
7. Professional Memberships
· Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
· Member of the Swedish Society for Medical Engineering (MTF)
8. Awards
· 2017 Viking Olov Björk’s Scholarship in applied biomaterials
· 2021 Guldpillret (“The Golden Pill” award)
9. Entrepreneurial achievements
· Initiator and co-founder of Capitainer AB (capillary blood sampling technology), raised>350 MSEK
· Board member and co-founder of In2Great Materials AB (graphene transfer technology)
· Initiator, co-founder, chairman of the board of Aperya AB (microneedle particles for topical skin delivery), Extendo Medical AB (endovascular cell sampling), and Lucky Loop Medical AB (cell sampling in pancreatic cysts)
· Board member, initiator and co-founder of Samplimy Medical AB (minimally invasive sampling technology)
· Innovation bridge award (2008)
· Finalist Stockholm Innovation Award (2016)
· Patents from >40 patent families granted or in application
10. Invited presentations
N. Roxhed, “New microsampling techniques”, Nordic metabolomic society workshop, Sthlm, Oct 2024
N. Roxhed, “Patient-Centric Sampling and Multiomics from 1 µl Samples”, GRC, Newport, USA, June 2024
N. Roxhed, “How to strengthen the ability to innovate”, Innovation fund, Karolinska Hospital, Sthlm, Sept 2023
N. Roxhed, “Patient-centric sampling is the enabler for future diagnostics” THINK sympo., Barbados, Feb 2023.
N. Roxhed, “Breaking barriers – Minimally invasive technologies for drug delivery and sampling through the skin and other biological barriers”, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sept 2022
N. Roxhed, Implantable and ingestible biomedical microsystems, Novo Nordisk, Malöv, Denmark, May 2022
N. Roxhed, Implantable and ingestible biomedical microsystems, New updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept 2021
N. Roxhed, “From a chip-in-a-lab to capillary home-sampling of patients”, MIT, Boston, USA, Mar 2020
N. Roxhed, ”Swalloble syringes, candy necklaces and other technologies that may revolutionize health care” [transl. fr. Swedish], DN Life Science conference, Sweden, May 2019.
N. Roxhed, ”Swalloble syringes, candy necklaces and other technologies that may revolutionize health care” [transl. fr. Swedish], Lecture for the pop. science magazine “Forskning och Framsteg”, Finland, Sept 2019
N. Roxhed, ”Micro and nanotechnology (MEMS) in future drug delivery systems”, Takeda Pharma AB Nordic event, Malmö, Sweden, Aug 2019
N. Roxhed, “R&D of new devices for microsampling of plasma and whole blood, and for drug delivery: possibilities to change clinical practice”, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Sept 2017
N. Roxhed, “Miniaturized technology for gas sensing”, Konstfack University College, Sweden, Feb 2014
N. Roxhed, “Microneedle Fabrication Methods”, Short course, GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, USA, May, 2010
N. Roxhed, “Microneedle Fabrication and its Implication for Transdermal Drug Delivery”, Int. Conf. on Microneedle Technology, Atlanta, USA, May 2010
N. Roxhed & F. Niklaus, “Adhesive Wafer Bonding and its Applications”, Waferbond’09, France, Dec 2009.
N. Roxhed, “MEMS Processing”, µFAB network user meeting, Sweden, Apr 2008
N. Roxhed, “Medical MEMS and a Miniaturized Drug Delivery System for Painless Intradermal Injections”, Invited lecture at the Medical faculty, Tartu University, Estonia, Jan 2008
11. Publications
· More than 150 peer-reviewed publications, 10 papers in Nature and Science journals, H-index of 40, >6000 citations (Google scholar)
