Monica Mir Llorente

Adjunct part-time

ORCID: 0000-0002-1490-8373

Scopus Author ID: 12647442200

Researcher ID: S-1982-2018

Knowledge area: Electrònica

Senior researcher

Research group: Nanobioengineering and Bioelectrònics (SIC-BIO)

Contact Information
Department of Electronic and Biomedical Engineering
Baldiri Reixac, 10
934037178
mmir(a)ub.edu

My profile

Dr. Mònica Mir research interest is focused on the area of electrochemical biosensors for biomedical applications, Integrated in microfluidic for lab-on-a-chip, point-of-care and organ-on-a-chip platforms and implantable sensors. She is Assistant Professor at the University of Barcelona since 2016, member of the Center for Biomedical Research Network on Bioengineering (CIBER-bbn) since 2008 and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). Prior to joining IBEC in 2008, she was at the Max Planck Institute from 2007-2008. Dr. Mir has been involved and managed 12 EU projects, 4 Industrial projects and 6 National projects, being the main investigator in some of those. As a result of an Industrial project, she has managed a Join Unit between the company and IBEC, giving as a product a commercialised point of care portable diagnosis device. She is actively working in applied projects in close collaboration with Hospitals, with vivo clinical pre-validation of some of my technology, which has resulted in a Patent. Dr. Mir has expertise in students training and teams management, with the Direction of 3 PhD students, and another currently undertaken. So far, she has published 1 book, 2 book's chapters and more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific journals; 56 % of my papers in the first quartile (Q1), with over 1365 citations and H-index of 16 (Scopus). Dr. Mir has over 90 contributions to international conferences, some of them as invited speaker and collaborated as scientific committee and Chair in some of these congresses. She is actively collaborating with International Journals as editor in the international journals Sensors, Bioengineering, Biosensors, and Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research. In addition to being the Grant evaluation committee and scientific expert for research project evaluation in the Swiss National Science Foundation, the DBT India Alliance, Agence Nationale de la Recherche in France, Agencia Nacional e Investigación y Desarrollo in Chile, National Science Center in Poland, and the Czech Science Foundation - info

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Academic training

Química . Universitat Rovira i Virgili . 1998 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Biotecnologia . Universitat Rovira i Virgili . 2006 . (Ph.D.)

Gestió Medioambiental . Universitat de Barcelona . 1999 . (Official Master)

Teaching imparted

Sistemas de diagnostico a la nanoescala (University Master's Degree) - Master in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology - Universidad de Barcelona.

Sistemes de Diagnòstic a la Nanoescala (University Master's Degree) - Nanociencia y Nanotecnología - Universidad de Barcelona.

Biosensors and lab on a chip (University Master's Degree) - Ingeniería Biomédica - Universidad de Barcelona.

Biosensors i Lab on a Chip (University Master's Degree) - Enginyeria Biomèdica - Universidad de Barcelona.

Research interests

Point of care development systems

Electrochemical biosensors based on DNA antibodies enzymes aptamers

Implantable physiological sensors

Participation in projects

Universal Diagnostic Platforms Based On Oligonucleotide Codified Nanoparticles and DNA Microarray Sensor Devices . 2012 - 2014 . Ref.DPI2011-29216-C02-01 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Josep Samitier Marti

Plataforma MIcrofluídica 3D de cultivo Neuronal compartimentada para el estuDio de enfermedades neurológicaS . 2016 - 2018 . Ref.TEC2015-70104-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Josep Samitier Marti

Robots biológicos basados en el control de la unión neuromuscular . 2017 - 2019 . Ref.TEC2015-72718-EXP . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Josep Samitier Marti

DISSARM: Development of Integratable Sensors for Screening of Antibiotic Resistant Mycobacteria (QLK2-CT-2000-00765) . 2000 . Comisión Europea . PI: Ioanis Katakis

MICROPROTEIN, Micrometer Scale Patterning of Protein and DNA Chips . 2002 . Comisión Europea . PI: Ioanis Katakis

Journal Publications

Teller, S; Tahirbegi, I.B; Mir, M; Samitier, J; Soriano, J (2015). Magnetite-Amyloid-beta deteriorates activity and functional organization in an in vitro model for Alzheimer's disease. Scientific Reports, 5(17261 ) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322

Tahirbegi, I. B.; Pardo, W. A.; Alvira, M.; Mir, M.; Samitier, J. (2016). Amyloid Aβ 42, a promoter of magnetite nanoparticle formation in Alzheimer's disease. Nanotechnology, 27(46) . ISSN: 0957-4484

Gállego, I.; Manning, B.; Prades, J.D.; Mir, M.; Samitier, J.; Eritja, R. (2017). DNA-Origami-Driven Lithography for Patterning on Gold Surfaces with Sub-10 nm Resolution. Advanced Materials, 29(11), p. 1603233 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0935-9648

Zaffino, R.L.; Mir, M.; Samitier, J. (2017). Oligonucleotide probes functionalization of nanogap electrodes. Electrophoresis, 38(21), pp. 2712 - 2720 . https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.201600554 . ISSN: 0173-0835

J. Pérez; S. Dulay; M. Mir; J. Samitier (2018). Molecular architecture for DNA wiring. Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 121, pp. 54 - 61 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2018.08.050 . ISSN: 0956-5663

José Marrugo-Ramírez; Mònica Mir; Josep Samitier (2018). Blood-based cancer biomarkers in liquid biopsy: A promising non-invasive alternative to tissue biopsy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 19(10), p. 2877 . https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19102877 . ISSN: 1661-6596