Mr Filip Plazonic 

Postgraduate research student

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. – Douglas Adams

Filip Plazonic started his PhD in 2014, under the supervision of Dr. Peter Glynne-Jones and Prof. Martyn Hill, with a goal of developing a device capable of capturing and detecting any spore, cell, or bacteria that might be of interest in a sample using ultrasound to concentrate, and antibodies to capture the pathogens. In a similar vein, he is also looking at the viability of the same device, as a basophil capture and analysis device. This work is done with another PhD student, Chloe Rose, and if successful, could speed up the allergy testing process.

Filip has a background in acoustical engineering, during which he worked on projects such as ultrasonic dental cleaner and an improved model for bubble resonance in finite ducts. Recently he started a project with Dr. Dario Carugo that is looking into using bubbles in an ultrasound field to penetrate biofilms so that antibiotics can get inside the biofilm itself (when usually that may not be the case).