Daniel Ahmed is an Associate Professor at the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Acoustic Robotics in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich. Currently, he is directing the Acoustic Robotic Systems Lab (ARSL) and is engaged in ultrasound robotics and micro technologies for use in life science applications, diagnostics, and translational medicine. Daniel holds Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Pennsylvania State University (U.S.). He has published 53 peer-reviewed journal articles in Nature, Nature Electronics, Nature Machine Intelligence (2), Nature Communication (10), PNAS (2), Science Advances (3), Science Robotics, among others. Daniel has successfully secured numerous grants both nationally and internationally as an independent Principal Investigator. His notable achievements include receiving the ERC Starting Grant, ERC Proof of Concept, the EIC Pathfinder, Bridge Discovery, multiple grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the ETH Internal Grant, and the ETH Zürich Career Seed Grant. Over the past five years, Daniel has secured more than 5 million CHF in competitive research funding as an independent Principal Investigator.
He has evaluated proposals from the European Research Council (ERC), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), and Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR). He served as a panel member for the Research Council of Norway (RCN) in Nanotechnology, Microtechnology, and Advanced Materials. In addition, he was selected as one of ten winners of the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2021 in Engineering and Technology. Daniel actively engages in patenting numerous discoveries stemming from his research endeavors, with the intention of creating spinoff ventures. Recently, Daniel has been awarded for the Dandelion Entrepreneurship Awards at ETH Zurich.
