Building the hardware layer of open science: welcome to the team, Philip Dettinger

We are very pleased to welcome Philip Dettinger to the team as we begin to build out Open Hardware as another important part of our mission.

Philip is a biomedical engineer and open-hardware developer working at the intersection of biotechnology, robotics and rapid prototyping. He studied Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley and completed his master's and doctoral degrees at ETH Zurich, where his research combined stem cell biology, microfluidics and automated laboratory technologies.

He later worked in the Tissue Engineering Group at the University of Basel and at Roche's Institute of Human Biology, developing advanced tissue-engineering platforms, automated bioreactors, microfluidic systems and laboratory automation technologies for human-relevant models and drug discovery.

His work spans academia and industry and includes open-source laboratory robotics, automated bioreactors and advanced micro- and millifluidic culture systems. He is an inventor on five patents and has published in journals including Nature Communications, Lab on a Chip and Analytical Chemistry.

At the Open Science Foundation, Philip will focus on building hardware infrastructure for rapid scientific prototyping and on connecting researchers, engineers and makers to turn scientific ideas into practical tools.

With Open Hardware, we are extending our open science work to the physical tools and systems that research depends on, making them easier to build, adapt and share.

Welcome to the team, Philip.