Dr. Farid Amalou

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Biography

1999-2003: PhD in Micro-engineering & Micro-technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland
1995-1999: MSc in Applied Physics, USTHB in collaboration with CNRS, France
1994-1995: High Degree in Theoretical Physics, USTHB, Algeria
1989-1993: BSc in Physics, USTHB, Algeria

Farid Amalou is a research associate at Heriot-Watt University. He did his Msc degree in physics, in 1999, at University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedienne (USTHB) in collaboration with the IPCMS-CNRS in Strasbourg (France). He then moved to Switzerland at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) where he obtained his PhD degree, in 2003, in Micro-Engineering and Micro-Magnetism. His current research interests are mainly in Microsystems, Lab-on-a-chip devices, Micro- and Nano-magnetics and Nanofabrication, including the development of novel microfluidic control platforms for synthetic biology applications.


Selected Publications

Stoyanov S, Amalou F, Sinclair K, Bailey C and Desmulliez MPY. (2008). Modelling the Nano-Imprint Forming process for the production of miniaturised 3D structures. International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Micro-Systems, 2008. EuroSimE 2008. pp.1-8. Available at: Link.