Keynote Speaker

Nadia Erkamp leads the Biological Soft Matter group at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Our group studies and creates plant food materials using autonomous experimentation. Specifically, given that food products require many different ingredients and specific processing conditions, it can be difficult to create products with suitable properties. Given that the parameter space is so large, we don't perform experiments by hand, but instead use a self-driving lab. Here, liquid handlers, microscopy, and applied machine learning are combined in closed loop. As such, samples are chosen, made, and measured for many iterations in a row without intervention from a researcher. This allows us to quantitatively understand complex food materials and discover composition-structure-function relationships.

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