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Dr. Magdanz is featured in the Waterloo Engineering promotional video ‘Do You Want To Power Progress?‘ and highlighted on the Waterloo Engineering Health Technologies page as a leading researcher in biodevices innovation.

Wireless surgical tools for minimally invasive medical interventions

Oct 16, 2025

Dr. Magdanz was invited to give a seminar on “Wireless surgical tools for minimally invasive medical interventions” at the German Cancer Research Centre in DKFZ Dresden. Thank you to Prof. Tian Qiu for the invitation!

Trackable sperm cell biohybrid microrobots

Sep 2025

Research by Dr. Magdanz and colleagues on sperm-IRONs that can be tracked by X-ray and guided magnetically is featured in Waterloo Engineering News. The publication has received coverage in over 30 news outlets, as tracked on Altmetric.

Tiny robots for targeted kidney stone removal

Aug 14, 2025

Dr. Magdanz’s team developed magnetically controlled microrobots that can deliver drugs to dissolve kidney stones, offering a minimally invasive treatment option. Read more in Waterloo News and CTV News.

Intelligent Active Matter (IAM) Conference 2025

Aug 1, 2025

Dr. Magdanz was invited to speak at the Intelligent Active Matter Conference (July 31 – August 2, 2025, near Munich, Germany), presenting ‘Collaboration Despite Competition: Lessons from Sperm Behaviour.’ Video of the talk is available on YouTube.

Big Ideas at μScale Podcast

Jun 10, 2025

Dr. Veronika Magdanz and Noah Franco were featured on three episodes, which can be found on Spotify Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and Youtube here.

Connecting Droplet Adhesion with Sperm Kinematics: A New Paradigm in Sperm Quality Monitoring

May 28, 2025

The Scientific American‘s article and commentary on Dr. Veronika Magdanz’s newest paper, “Connecting Droplet Adhesion with Sperm Kinematics: A New Paradigm in Sperm Quality Monitoring”, with coauthors Sudip Shyam, Sushanta Mitra, and Sirshendu Misra