Professor in Engineering Biooloy
Marloes graduated from Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands) with a degree in Chemical Engineering. For my PhD, she moved to Hasslet University in Belgium where she was part of the BIOSensors group of Prof Wagner. After postdoctoral research positions at Hasselt University and Queen Mary Universty of London, she commenced her independent research career at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK in 2015. Marloes became a Professor at Newcastle University in 2023 and at the end of that year, joined the Chemical Engineering department of the University of Manchester as a Chair (Professor) in Engineering Biology.
Her research group focuses on the development of advanced functional polymer materials to solve complex healthcare problems such as in the field of biosensors, bioelectronics, and drug delivery. Marloes has been granted five patents on novel biosensor platforms, is a key science communicator, and has won the RSC Macro Group UK Early Career Award in 2024 (awarded to a polymer scientist with great promise for the future).