University of Florida · B.S. Mechanical Engineering · 2029
Noah Haeske
- Program
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering
- Institution
- University of Florida
- Expected
- May 2029 · GPA 4.00
- Research since
- August 2025
About
I am a second-year mechanical engineering student at the University of Florida, working between microfluidics and instrumentation. At UF's Interdisciplinary Microsystems Group I fabricate and test devices that isolate circulating tumor cells from blood. Last summer at Imperial College London I built a point-of-care diagnostic cassette that holds a DNA amplification reaction at temperature with no heater, no controller, and no battery. I also lead payload systems for Florida Rocket Lab.
Research interests
Where I want to work next.
Infrastructure-free diagnostics
Assays that run without power, cold chain, or trained operators: passive heating, passive timing, and readouts a non-technical user can trust.
Microfluidic cell separation
Size- and affinity-based capture of rare cells, and the modelling that predicts capture efficiency from channel geometry before a wafer is ever exposed.
Passive thermal & fluid control
Phase-change buffering, exothermic chemistry, and sacrificial materials used as timing elements rather than as packaging.
Instrumentation & data pipelines
Multi-channel DAQ, thermocouple and pressure logging, and the Python tooling that turns a messy test campaign into something you can actually make a decision from.
Selected work
Three things I have spent real time on.
Passive Thermal Control for an Infrastructure-Free Diagnostic Cassette
Held a DNA amplification reaction at 37–42 °C for ~11 minutes with zero electrical input, using a salt exotherm buffered by a phase-change ring.
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Lateral Filter Array Microfluidics for Circulating Tumor Cell Isolation
COMSOL model relating channel geometry and flow rate to capture efficiency, validated against 200+ fabricated devices and clinical samples from UF Health Shands.
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Cold Flow Test Platform & Payload Systems
A vertical integration and cold flow stand logging 12 channels of pressure, thermal, and vibration data, plus the Python pipeline that makes the data readable.
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Get in touch.
- noah.haeske@ufl.edu
- Phone
- 407-705-9895
- Based in
- Gainesville & Orlando, Florida
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