Congratulations to Sebastian Sachs, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis with distinction today!

In his work, entitled “On the multiphysical phenomena in microfluidics governing the separation of microparticles by surface acoustic waves” provides deep insights into the physics behind using a tilted-angle standing surface acoustic wave to sort particles.

Through extensive experiments and numerical simulations, he provided clear design criteria for microfluidic devices that can reliably separate particles by size, acoustic contrast and shape.

Many thanks to Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation for funding this work within the Priority Programme “MehrDimPart SPP 2045”. Also many thanks to the external reviewers Massimiliano Rossi from Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna and Per Augustsson from Lund University.

Sebastian Sachs nach erfolgreicher Verteidigung Jörg König