Agnès Dienes

Born in Hungary, I studied at the Technical University of Budapest and obtained my diploma of Chemical Engineer in 1989. After working one year in the biggest brewery of Hungary (Köbànyai Sörgyàr) as Quality assurance manager, I moved to Switzerland to join the group of Prof. E. sz. Kovàts at the EPFL. In 1995 I obtained my Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry for the research on the developement and characterisation of new stationary phases for HPLC. Between 1997-1999 I worked as scientist in the Institut de Médicine Légale (IUML) in the University of Lausanne developing new LC-MS methods to analyse drugs in the foreignic and doping analysis area.

In 2003 I joined this laboratory with the grant of Marie Heim Vögtlin of the Swiss National Science Fondation. My research area is focused now on the isolation and identification of active components (proteinic and non-proteinic) of plants extracts for use as flocculant in water purification and for the formation of microcapsules for chromatographic applications.

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Véronique Breguet

Born in July 1980 in Neuchâtel (Switzerland). She studied chemical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, where she graduated in March 2003. She performed her Master Thesis at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, in the field of cartilage tissue engineering, more precisely on the effect of shear stress on metabolism and phenotype of bovine chondrocytes in suspension. She started her PhD thesis in August 2003 at LGCB, working on mammalian cell microencapsulation as a tool for continuous cell culture and biomolecules production.

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