A Next Generation BioPhotonics Workstation

Abstract

, whose contributions remain relevant to our present work. The BRC group that hosted my external stay and fabricated the microtools that we trap, Lόránd Kelemen, Pál Ormos, Gaszton Vizsnyiczai, Badri Aekbote, András Búzás. Collaborators at Aarhus University and Copenhagen University as well as the people at the business development side for helping me appreciate the things I build in the laboratory. Rune Christiansen and the rest of DTU Danchip for fabricating our matched filters. And the Danish Research Council (FTP) for funding. I would also like to express my thanks to my examiners, Tomáš Čižmár and Simon Hanna whose comments have helped improved this thesis. Kirstine Berg-Sørensen, also for the helpful comments and for facilitating practical matters regarding the thesis. For the less technical aspects that nonetheless contribute to the grand scheme of things, as well as my mental health, I also thank my family for understanding my extended absence, my officemates and neighbours for standing in as co-PhDs, my very kind landlady, Birgit, for not minding all those scattered computers, cables and musical instruments, and the very nice or strange people I meet everyday at work.