Dr Joachim Köser is a scientist at the Institute for Nanotechnology in the Institute for Chemistry and Bioanalytics (ICB) at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) in Muttenz. He has participated in several medical technology, tissue engineering and biosensor-related nanotechnology projects, including two LFA-related projects.

A biologist by training, Dr Köser did his PhD at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg before moving to Basel in 1999 to join Prof Ueli Aebi’s group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. In 2003, he joined the start-up company Concentris GmbH, where he was responsible for the application development of cantilever sensors as chemical and biological sensors. In 2008, he joined Prof Uwe Pieles’ nanotechnology group at the FHNW.