Dr.ir. Roald Tiggelaar

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Roald M. Tiggelaar is born in Groningen, The Netherlands, in 1976. He received his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering in july 2000 (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands), on developing a modular based micro ammonia flow injection analysis including a microreactor. From october 2000 to december 2004 he worked towards his PhD degree on the same university, on the feasibility of silicon-technology based microreactors for direct catalytic partial oxidation reactions (Transducers, Science and Technology group of prof.dr. M.C. Elwenspoek). Afterwards he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in various research groups: his projects included the development of glass microreactors for high-pressure organic chemistry, a microfluidic system for highly efficient electrochemical cleavage of proteins, and microreactors for investigations on 3-phase gas-liquid-solid catalytic reactions (january 2005 – october 2006: BIOS Lab-on-a-Chip group of prof.dr.ir. A. van den Berg; november 2006 – september 2010: Mesoscale Chemical Systems group of prof.dr. J.G.E. Gardeniers). During the period October 2010 – May 2011 he was employed as project-manager and design-engineer at iX-factory GmbH in Dortmund, Germany. This company develops, designs and manufacturers microfluidic, optical, opto-fluidic and MEMS-based systems.

Since June 2011 he rejoined the Mesoscale Chemical Systems group. Currently he is working on a project in which techniques and methods are developed/optimized for the fabrication of microfluidic structures embedded in fused silica.