David Ross

David’s work is primarily directed at developing novel microfluidic methods for chemical and biochemical analysis. His work is guided by the idea that much of the promise of microfluidics for highly multiplexed or point-of-use analysis systems has not been realized because the predominant approach to the problem has been the design of complex devices comprised of multiple “unit-operation” elements strung together to sequentially perform the steps required for a given analysis. Consequently, David’s approach to fulfilling the promise of multiplexed and/or portable microfluidics-based analysis systems is to always look for ways to make the system simpler while retaining the important functionality.