
Annelot Nijkoops
Postdoctoral fellow
Annelot Nijkoops received her M.Sc. in Food Technology from Wageningen University (The Netherlands) in 2019 with a specialization in Food Digestion and Health. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. in Food Engineering and Biotechnology from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (UNIBZ) in Italy, with a thesis entitled “Gut-Sensor Axis: π-conjugated molecules for biomedical applications, bio-molecules (NH3) sensing and thri-chromatic sight restoration”. She focused on improving the recovery and sensing performance of carbon nanotube-based ammonia gas sensors via the addition of semiconducting polymer P3HT. Furthermore, during her PhD she joined Surrey University (UK) as a visiting researcher to work on the investigation of the use of bio-pigments in artificial retinas. Currently she is a research assistant at the Faculty of Science and Technology, of UNIBZ. Annelot’s work is focused on the design, fabrication and characterization of electronics from nature derived materials.