Marjorie Willner

Research Interests

Marjorie’s research focuses on the development of nano-enabled sensors for containment detection. Compared to traditional detection techniques, nanostructured sensors are portable, simple to operate and cheap. However, creating such a nano-enabled sensor that is also highly sensitive, can withstand transport and/or in extreme temperatures – such as those in the developing world – and is minimally-toxic, is a huge engineering undertaking. Marjorie’s is currently developing a high throughput optofluidic platform for the rapid detection of whole pathogens.