Chris Liebold
Our colleague Enrico Corato is presenting our recent work on “Pollen in motion: from release to classification” that at the Microfluidic Horizons 2026 conference held in Padua this week. The project is part of the larger research effort PollenNet, funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. In this work we applied event-based cameras to study the pollen release in a wind tunnel and the behaviour of catkins shaking with distinct frequencies. In addition, hydrodynamic focusing and acoustics are used to further classify pollen grains by let them rotate in front of the camera in a microfluidic channel.