Fotis Tsitsos
Academic Qualifications
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M.Eng, Materials Science and Engineering, Imperial College London (London, UK), 2021
- M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University (New York, NY), 2022
Biography
Fotis Tsitsos is from Athens, Greece, and graduated with an M.Eng in Materials Science and Engineering from Imperial College London in 2021. At Imperial, he conducted his thesis project with Dr. Fang Xie focusing on the design of ultrasensitive plasmonic biosensors for the early detection of pancreatic cancer. In Fall 2021, he joined UEIL as an MS student where he is working on developing neuronavigation tools for transcranial Focused-Ultrasound Blood-Brain Barrier opening. In 2023, he joined the lab as a Ph.D. student working on the development of focused and theranostic ultrasound-mediated blood-brain opening methods for non-invasive gene delivery to the brain for the therapy of neurodegenerative diseases.
