Adil Mustafa

Adil is a biomedical engineer specialising in microfluidics, lab-on-chip biosensing, optical biosensors, cancer metabolism and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for medical diagnostics. He is Course Director for biomedical engineering at ARU.

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Background

With extensive interdisciplinary research and publication experience, alongside industry-focused innovation, Adil holds a PGCert in Higher Education Practice and is a Fellow of Higher Education (FHEA).

Adil joined Anglia Ruskin University in 2025 as Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering. Before this, he led teaching across Levels 4–7 at the University of Bolton, and contributed to developing an apprenticeship pathway with NHS partners. Previously, Adil held postdoctoral positions at the University of Bath with Prof Mirella Di Lorenzo, the University of Bristol with Prof Lucia Marucci, and the University of Warwick with Prof Orkun Soyer, advancing interdisciplinary research in biosensing, microfluidics, and synthetic biology.

Adil's academic journey began with a Masters degree from Politecnico di Torino, followed by a PhD at Koç University under Prof Alper Kiraz, focused on optical biosensing technologies.

Today, Adil actively collaborates with industrial partners such as Beyond Blood Diagnostics and Tecnalia Spain to translate microfluidic and lab-on-chip innovations into clinically relevant solutions. His work integrates research, innovation, and teaching to deliver impact in translational diagnostics and support emerging researchers through interdisciplinary supervision and partnerships.

Research interests

• Organ-on-chip
• Microfluidics for life sciences
• Optical biosensors for point-of-care diagnostics

Areas of research supervision

• Microfluidic device design and fabrication
• Biosensor development
• Development of biomedical devices for point-of-care diagnostics

To date Adil has supervised one PhD student and 14 Masters students.

Teaching

At ARU, Adil teaches on the following modules:

• Biomaterials
• Nanotechnology
• Computer Aided Engineering

Qualifications

• PhD Biomedical Engineering, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Masters in Electronics Engineering, Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy
• Bachelors in Electronics Engineering, COMSATS, Isalamabad, Pakistan

Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

• Microfluidic Device development Consultant at Beyond Blood Diagnostics. UK
• Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council grant SBAG-15S120. Development of a micro-vascular sensing device for Thromboelastometry (Worth $5000, 2016-2017)
• Koc University, Seed Funding Program (Grant No. SF.00007). A closed-loop feedback system for single particle trapping. (Worth $4000,2018

Selected recent publications

RMA Ayaz, A Mustafa, R Funari. Symmetrically etched plastic optical fiber sensor for the detection of ethylene glycol contamination in water. Optical and Quantum Electronics, 57 (12), 626.

A Mustafa, A La Regina, E Pedone, A Erten, L Marucci. A Novel Single-Layer Microfluidic Device for Dynamic Stimulation, Culture, and Imaging of Mammalian Cells. Biosensors, 15 (7), 427.

RMA Ayaz, A Mustafa. Tunable Microstructured Silicon Waveguide Based Fabry-Perot Interferometric (Si-FPI) Label-Free Bio-Sensor for Cancer Detection. Sensing and Imaging, 26 (1), 42.

RMA Ayaz, A Mustafa. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Coated Broadband Tunable Vanadium Dioxide (VO2) Based Linear Optical Cavity Temperature Sensor. Sensing and Imaging, 25 (1), 14.