Joshua Edel

Joshua B. Edel received his PhD on the development of single molecule detection within microfluidic systems at Imperial College London in 2004. He then did postdoctoral research in nanobiotechnology at Cornell University with Professor Harold Craighead. In 2005 he was awarded a research fellowship at the Rowland Institute at Harvard University to study the structure and interactions of individual biomolecules in their native cellular environment. In the same year JBE was a finalist for the LabAutomation 2005 Innovation Award.

In July 2006 he was appointed to a joint lectureship between the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Chemistry at Imperial College. In 2009 JBE was promoted to Senior Lecturer. JBE specialises in the development of micro and nanofluidic devices for analytical and bio-analytical applications, and ultra-high sensitivity optical detection techniques. His expertise includes micro and nanofabrication, sample preparation and handling, laser induced confocal microscopy, total internal reflection microscopy, material processing, surface modification chemistries, and standard semiconductor processing and characterization techniques.