Séverine Le Gac

University of Twente

Séverine Le Gac received her Engineer degree from the ESPCI and her MSc degree from the National Museum of Natural History (Paris, France) in 2000. In 2004, she obtained her PhD cum laude from the University of Lille (France). For her thesis focusing on the development of microfluidic systems for proteomic analysis by mass spectrometry, she was attributed the PhD prize of the French Society for Mass Spectrometry in 2005. After a short stay in Japan, she joined the University of Twente (the Netherlands), as a post-doctoral fellow. In 2008, she was offered a tenure-track position in the same university and got tenure in 2013.
She is now Full Professor in the same university, leading a research group Applied Microfluidics for BioEngineering Research (AMBER). Her research interests focus on the use of microfluidic devices for biological and medical applications and the development of organ-on-chip models.

Prof. Le Gac is associate editor of the RSC journal Lab on a Chip and was until 2023 co-editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Organs-on-a-Chip. She is president of the director board of the Chemical Biological Microsystem Society (CBMS).

She was chairing the premier conference in her field, MicroTAS, in 2020 with Prof. Hang Lu (GeorgiaTech).