Agricultural Engineering

Theme 1: Real-Time Detection of Subclinical Mastitis in Dairy Cows using a Smartphone Our multidisciplinary approach is based on an innovative combination of novel nanomaterials with sensitive, specific and robust capture probes to build an integrated platform, “lab-on-chip”, for label-free biosensing of subclinical mastitis. Theme 2: Optical Biosensing Platform for Pathogenic Contamination Screening The overall aim of this project is to develop an integrated optical biosensing platform for continuous on-site detection of microbial load in water bodies. Specifically, the biosensing platform will be designed for the detection of predefined model bacteria by using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.