Joaquim Llacer Wintle

Joaquim Llacer was born in Girona, the north-east corner of Spain in June 1996. He graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he received his B.Sc. in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. In his last semester, Joaquim had an Erasmus internship at University of Twente, Netherlands, where he developed bioinspired nanostructures capable of self-assembling into efficient catalyzers.

After his positive experience with Research in Twente, he returned to Barcelona where he joined the M.Sc. Multidisciplinary Research in Experimental Sciences. During this Master’s degree, organized by the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Joaquim joined the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and majored in the development of enzyme-powered nanomotors in physiological environments and their characterization with super-resolution microscopy.

Attracted by ETH Zürich’s application-oriented Research and its expertise in the field of robotics and materials, Joaquim joined the MSRL group as a PhD Student in February 2020. His research is centered on magneto-electric materials for biomedical applications and he is optimistic of finding new exciting applications for these materials.

Joaquim’s main interests outside the lab are surfing, playing handball, hiking with friends and actually any kind of sport. He also enjoys spending his time building and flying drones or anything related to assembling and disassembling things.