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Teaching and Mentoring

I care for the learning and growth of students.

I aim to empower students to identify creative solutions for problems.

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Teaching

​Total time approx. 1200 hs, Excellence Teaching Award at EPFL

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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]

  • 13 nationalities: US, BR, FR, GR, IR, IN, IT, KR, PT, ES, CN, CH, DE

  • 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)

  • 3 prizes awarded for our research projects: 1-Fondation Marguerite's Prix Annaheim – Matille (EPFL); 2-Spring 2021 HCRP research award (Harvard)​​​​​​​​​

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[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

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