Research Engineer
E-mail: c.breukers@tnw.utwente.nl
Telephone: +31 53 489 3021
Fax: +31 53 489 3511
Address: Faculty of Science and Technology
Medical Cell BioPhysics (MCBP)
Building: Carré
Room: CR4538
Drienerlolaan 5
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
Background
Christian studied Applied Physics at the Saxion Hogeschool in Enschede from 2001 – 2005 and received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in 2005. During his studies at the Saxion Hogeschool his first internship of five months was at the Low Temperature division at the University of Twente in 2003, designing a automized test setup for characterizing valves. The second internship was an Erasmus study exchange at the Ingeniørhøjskolen Odense Teknikum in Odense Denmark in 2004, where subjects like acoustics, optics and project management were accomplished. His final assignment was done at Thales in Hengelo in 2005, creating a test setup for a FMCW-RADAR with DDS.
Work
In August 2005 Christian started his career at the BioPhysical Engineering group in the Hogekamp building at the University of Twente. As technician he was responsible for the development of optics, electronics and software for the AIDS in Africa project (affordable HIV staging). In 2007 the group moved to the Zuidhorst and was split up into a new group Medical Cell Biophysics. In December 2010 MCBP moved to new lab facility and offices in Carré. In the meanwhile Christian became responsible for multiple projects like Instant Count, CTCTrap and general support to the other projects within MCBP.
Publications
- Beck, M. and Brockhuis, S. and Velde, N. van der and Breukers, C. and Greve, J. and Terstappen, L.W.M.M. (2012)On-chip sample preparation by controlled release of antibodies for simple CD4 counting. Lab on a chip, 12 . 167 - 173. ISSN 1473-0197 (2012)
- Li, Xiao and Breukers, Christian and Ymeti, Aurel and Pattanapanyasat, Kovit and Sukapirom, Kasama and Terstappen, Leon W.M.M. and Greve, Jan (2010)Clinical evaluation of a simple image cytometer for CD4 enumeration on HIV-infected patients. Cytometry Part B: Clinical Cytometry, 78 (1). pp. 31-36. ISSN 1552-4949 (2010)
- Li, Xiao and Breukers, Christian and Ymeti, Aurel and Lunter, Björn and Terstappen, Leon W.M.M. and Greve, Jan (2008) CD4 and CD8 enumeration for HIV monitoring in resource-constrained settings.Cytometry Part B: Clinical Cytometry, 76 (2). pp. 118-26 (2008)
- Li, Xiao and Ymeti, Aurel and Lunter, Björn and Breukers, Christian and Tibbe, Arjan G.J. and Terstappen, Leon W.M.M. and Greve, Jan (2007)CD4+ T lymphocytes enumeration by an easy-to-use single platform image cytometer for HIV monitoring in resource-constrained settings. Cytometry Part B: Clinical Cytometry, 72 (5). pp. 397-407. ISSN 1552-4949 (2007)
- Ymeti, Aurel and Li, Xiao and Lunter, Björn and Breukers, Christian and Tibbe, Arjan G.J. and Terstappen, Leon W.M.M. and Greve, Jan (2007)A single platform image cytometer for resource-poor settings to monitor disease progression in HIV infection. Cytometry Part A, 71A (3). pp. 132-142. ISSN 0196-4763 (2007)
Other activities
Since 2014 part of the BHV team Carré.
Expertise
FACS, fluorescence microscopy, LabVIEW, image analysis.