Teaching and Mentoring
I care for the learning and growth of students.
I aim to empower students to identify creative solutions for problems.
Teaching
Total time approx. 1200 hs, Excellence Teaching Award at EPFL
HMS, MIT, and EPFL, Teaching Assistant and Project Mentor of Master and Graduate Student Courses
10. How to grow (almost) anything, Prof. G.M. Church (Harvard/MIT) -- Spring 2022
– synthetic biology laboratory with 15 MIT/Harvard students, and theory for ~250 virtual students
9. Principles and applications of systems biology, Prof. V. Hatzimanikatis (EPFL) -- Spring 2015 - 2018
– interdisciplinary course with students across computer and life sciences and engineering
8. Process development, Prof. P. Zaza (EPFL) -- Spring 2014
EPFL, University of Bern/Fribourg, and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Service Teacher
7. Principles and applications of systems biology, Prof. V. Hatzimanikatis (EPFL) -- Fall 2020
6. Autumn school on systems modeling, Prof. V. Hatzimanikatis (SIB) -- Fall 2015
– interdisciplinary 1-day course with junior and senior scientists in biology and engineering
5. Cellular and genetic networks, Prof. V.T. Heussler (Uni Bern/Fribourg) -- Fall 2016
MIT and EPFL, Teaching Assistant and Project Mentor of Undergraduate Courses
4. Chemical engineering projects laboratory, Prof. G. Stephanopoulos (MIT) -- Spring 2022
3. Bioreactor modeling and simulation, Prof. V. Hatzimanikatis (EPFL) -- Spring 2015 - 2016
2. Introduction to chemical engineering, Prof. V. Hatzimanikatis (EPFL) -- Fall 2014 - 2018
– introduced active learning techniques like the use of clickers from Turning Technologies
1. Biochemical engineering, Prof. M. Zinn (EPFL) -- Spring 2014
Mentoring
29 mentored students, Mentorship Excellence Award from the WIC AIChE
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34 projects: 19-Semester projects, 7-Master theses, 8-Ph.D. projects[1]
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13 nationalities: US, BR, FR, GR, IR, IN, IT, KR, PT, ES, CN, CH, DE
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7 home institutions: 12-EPFL, 9-Harvard University, 4-MIT, 1-Geneva University, 1-Patras University, 1-Ferdowsi University of Mashad (FUM), 1-Lisbon University (FCUL)
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3 prizes awarded for our research projects: 1-Fondation Marguerite's Prix Annaheim – Matille (EPFL); 2-Spring 2021 HCRP research award (Harvard)
[1] Five projects involved a rotation Ph.D. student (3 months), and three projects involved a collaboration (6-12 months) in which I was mentoring the Ph.D. student to carry out the project. I was not the main supervisor (PI / Professor) of these Ph.D. students.
Last updated: August 1, 2024