As part of a worldwide competition that included nominees from Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece and Lebanon, the jury selected Medina Hamidovic (Institute of Communications Engineering and Radio Frequency Systems) as the award recipient.

Award: "Women in Technology" Award from Zonta International

Paper: Award for her general work

Content: Hamidovic was presented with the award in recognition of her outstanding academic work and research in mechatronics and engineering, particularly her modern cross-disciplinary research in medicine and mechatronics. Her current doctoral dissertation focuses on microfluidic networks and modern communication systems.

About Medina Hamidovic, (28) from Linz

Research: Hamidovic works on bringing aspects in biology, medicine and engineering together. Her doctoral dissertation at the JKU focuses on the potential and feasibility of developing new communication systems based on microfluidics to, for example, create a system to detect water pathogens that could be faster and cheaper than conventional systems.

CV:

09 / 2017- PhD student at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, conducting research in the field of Networked Labs-on-a-Chip

08 / 2016-07 / 2017 MSc studies at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Electronic Devices. Research work in the field of fluid dynamics and biomedical LoCs

 09 / 2015-10 / 2017 Msc program at Heriot-Watt University, Faculty of Engineering and Physics. Research in the field of microfabrication technology, MEMS and NEMS systems

09 / 2010-07 / 2014 BSc studies at the University of Tuzla, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Communication. Research on modern communication systems, mathematics and physics

Awards:

2020 "Women in Technology Award", Zonta International, USA

2019 "Women in Science" Award from ZONTA Linz and the JKU

2019 JKU Early Research Achievement Award