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Agnes Tixier-Mita

Associate professor

Agnes Tixier-MitaAssociate professor

Agnès Tixier-Mita is associate professor in the Toshiyoshi laboratory since April 2010, at the RCAST, the University of Tokyo. She is also associate professor in the frame of CIRMM, at the IIS, the University of Tokyo, and host professor of the LIMMS / CNRS - IIS UMI 2820. Her research interest is to interface with biological cells by means of electrical tools, to sense them and to interact with them.

Experience

1989 - 1991

She studied general chemistry at the IUT - University of Orsay.

1991 - 1994

She studied Material Sciences at the ISMRA - ENSI de Caen (a french Engineering School).

1994

She received her Engineer Diploma and passed her Master degree.

1995 - 1998

She did her PhD degree in the field of Micro-electronics. During her PhD, she studied and characterized LOCOS type isolation structures for 0.35µm CMOS technology. Her PhD was in the frame of a collaboration between the IEMN – University of Lille I, and ST-Microelectronics, in Italy.

2001 - 2007

She was an assistant researcher at the IIS, The University of Tokyo, than a “research engineer” at LIMMS / CNRS - IIS, welcome in the laboratory of Prof. Hiroyuki Fujita. From then her field of interest has began to be the Bio-MEMS, which was an emerging field at that time. She focused her research on cells manipulation and electroporation on micro-fabricated silicon chip, with micro-electrodes. Few developments include also the development of nano-microsystems for biological applications. In parallel she got responsibilities in education of researchers on clean-rooms equipments and gave support in micro-technology on equipments available in the clean-rooms.

2010 - now

She is associate professor at the RCAST, the University of Tokyo. She is working in the laboratory of Prof Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, specialist of optical and RF-MEMS. She is also associate professor in the frame of CIRMM, at the IIS, and host professor of the LIMMS/CNRS-IIS UMI 2820. Her research interest is to interface with biological cells by means of electrical tools, to sense them and to interact with them.