Aiste Balciunaite
Aiste Balciunaite
Student / Programme Doctorate at D-MAVT
Additional information
2022 – current PhD on Muscle Tissue Engineering and Biohybrid Robotics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zürich), Switzerland
2020 – 2022 M.Sc. in Life Sciences Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Spring 2022 Master Thesis conducted in MICROBS Laboratory, Professor Selman Sakar
- Fall 2022 Internship at IBM Research Zürich, supervision of Dr. Govind Kaigala and Dr. Vesna Bacheva
2015 - 2019 B.S. in Chemical Engineering & B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mathematics minor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- Bachelor Thesis conducted with Professor Maria Santore, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
Honours
| Year | Distinction |
|---|---|
| 2024 | IEEE RoboSoft Biohybrid Roboticist Award |
| 2022 | EPFL Life Sciences Section Award, 3rd Best Master's Grade |
| 2020 | EPFL Excellence Scholarship Recipient for Master's Studies |
| 2019 | 21st Century Leader Award (one of ten selected from approx. 4500 graduates in UMass Class of 2019) |
| 2015 | Freshman Chemistry CRC Handbook Award (awarded by Department of Chemistry at UMass Amherst to the top 4 chemistry student) |