Madalina Nicolae is a doctoral researcher working at the nexus of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Biodesign, and Embedded Systems. Through her work, she explores how organic and living matter can be leveraged to build a new generation of interactive devices that blur the boundaries between technology and biology. Her research interests include biomaterials, biofabrication, critical making, sustainable interaction design, and living media interfaces. Madalina shares her time between HCI Lab Saarland University (Germany), the Institute for Future Technologies (France) and the Polytechnic Institute of Paris (France), being advised by Prof. Jürgen Steimle, Dr. Marc Teyssier and Dr. Samuel Huron.

I love cats. I don’t have a cat, but sometimes I meow.