Dr Vlastimil Jirasko is a postdoctoral research fellow in Prof Janos Vörös’ research group at the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics (LBB) at ETH Zurich, focusing on the assay development of rapid antigen test detecting SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins. He obtained his PhD in the field of virology in the Molecular Virology laboratory at Heidelberg University in Germany studying the assembly of infectious viral particles of the hepatitis C virus. He gained further expertise in protein biochemistry during his work in the Solid-State NMR laboratory at ETH Zurich, where he optimised sample preparation of viral membrane proteins in liposomes for analysis by proton-detected magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR.