Marle Vleugels

Postdoc

Material chemist working at the interface of biochemistry and iontronic devices to achieve drug delivery with electronic precision.

Research profile

Research Profile

Marle is a goal-oriented material chemist with an eye for detail who likes to tackle interdisciplinary research questions. Currently she is working at the forefront of cancer therapy by exploring novel iontronic drug delivery technologies.

She has an educational background in supramolecular polymer chemistry and she received her MSc on this topic in 2018 from Eindhoven University of Technology (NL). In 2019 she started her PhD under supervision of prof. Bert Meijer and prof. Anja Palmans in the laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focused on the creation of functional water-soluble supramolecular assemblies and studying their dynamic behavior and interaction with biological systems.

Since October 2023 she is a postdoc in the organic bioelectronics group (OBE), where she is working at the interface of bioelectronic devices and bioorthogonal click-chemistry for the next generation of iontronic drug delivery systems for cancer treatment. She is designing, synthesizing and developing membrane materials that allow for drug delivery with electronic precision.

An organic electronic ion pump (OEIP). The device uses electrophoretic transport through thin polymer films to deliver ions, neurotransmitters, plant hormones, and other small charged molecules into living tissue.

Organic Bioelectronics

We investigate the transduction between electronic signals and ionic/molecular signals in electroactive surfaces, iontronic chemical delivery and circuitry, biosensors, mimicking neural function, next-generation medical therapy, and many other areas.

Organisation

Power plant, organic electronics, a red rose.

Laboratory of Organic Electronics

At Laboratory of Organic Electronics, LOE, we explore electronic and optical properties of organic materials and organic-inorganic hybrid systems.

Department of Science and Technology (ITN)

We research and teach in several technical and scientific disciplines in which our main areas are organic electronics, media, communications and logistics.