About
Erick designs microfabricated and microfluidic platforms that couple brain organoids with high fidelity electrophysiology for stable, long duration recordings. Systems maintain controlled perfusion, stabilize shear and oxygenation, and yield reproducible multichannel readouts with documented analysis. Current work focuses on a three well millifluidic platform with stretchable multi electrode arrays that supports parallel experiments, standardized flow profiles, and cross comparability.
Core strengths include fabrication of stretchable MEAs on polyimide with PEDOT:PSS impedance lowering, reliable PDMS micro and millifluidics with plasma bonding and inline bubble removal, and low noise acquisition supported by custom MATLAB code analysis for spike detection, quality checks, and general signal processing. Designs follow COMSOL flow and mass transport modeling.The emphasis is on reproducibility and modeling for the advancement of disease models based on organoids.
Born and raised in Quito, Ecuador, he moved to South Korea for university and earned an engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Korea University in 2022 as a recipient of the Korean Government Scholarship Program (KGSP), now called the Global Korea Scholarship (GKS). He completed a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2025 under the supervision of Professor Hyunjoo Jenny Lee, where he developed a micro/millifluidic platform integrated with electrophysiology for integrated analysis.
Research Interests
- Microfluidics for biological interfacing
- Bioelectronics and biotechnology
- Device integration in biomedical systems
- Organoid platforms for mechanism-driven validation