CIC microGUNE strengthens its collaboration with Dublin City University

The Basque Research Center in microtechnologies, CIC microGUNE, following its strategy of establishing relationships with international reference centers, has strengthened its collaboration with the Dublin City University (DCU), with which already has several collaborations around new functional materials and their integration in micro electromechanical systems (MEMS). This way, the researcher of CIC microGUNE Lourdes Basabe Desmonts, has recently obtained an adjunct appointment at the School of Faculty of Science and Health for the next three years.

Basabe, who is also Ikerbasque Researcher, has worked previously at the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (BDI), an interdisciplinary research center dependent on the DCU, dedicated to the generation of bioanalytical platforms for rapid diagnosis. This appointment will allow her to continue with the relationship with the DCU, collaborating on research projects, by supervising the research.

This collaboration joins to the also CIC microGUNE researcher Fernando Benito Lopez, adjunct faculty in the DCU since last year. Benito-Lopez worked previously at the National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR), a research centre dependent on the mentioned educational institution.

About Dublin City University

Dublin City University (DCU) is an Irish public university founded in 1975, and has approximately 11.000 students. The DCU was established to train specialists in areas such as business administration, electronics, computing and science and, although it is the youngest university in the country, it has a large national and international recognition.

About CIC microGUNE

CIC microGUNE is a cooperative research centre specialized in microtechnologies, framed in the nanoBasque Strategy 2015 of the Basque Government. It is the result of a strategic partnership between the research centers CEIT-IK4, IK4-IKERLAN and IK4-TEKNIKER and the universities Tecnun and Mondragon, in collaboration with the Belgian research center IMEC and the support of Group MONDRAGON