Nicole Hill

Research at Rochester Institute of Technology

Nicole is a PhD student in Microsystems Engineering at RIT. Nicole joined the MSB lab in August 2017. She is currently working on a project for developing a new hybrid microfluidic technique called dielectrophoresis chromatography.

NEWS! May 2021 Nicole Hill defended ther PhD Dissertation

On May 6 2021, Nicole Hill sucessfully defended ther PhD Dissertation, Nicole published 9 jounral articles from her work in our lab and she received three external research awards. Congratulations Dr. Hill!

NEWS! October 2020 - Nicole Hill received the 2020 Blue Fingers award from the AES Society

The award was presented during the SciX 2020 virtual meeting. Official announcement .

Congratulations Nicole! This work was funded by the National Science Foundation (Award CBET-1705895).

News! October 2019 - Nicole Hill received the Wiley Innovation Award and the FACSS Student Poster Award at the SCiX 2019 Conference!

Nicole Hill (3rd year Microsystems Engineering PhD student) received TWO Awards during the SCiX 2019 Conference: the Wiley Innovation Award and the FACSS Student Poster Award during the SCiX 2019 Conference held in October 2019 in Palm Springs, CA..

Congratulations Nicole! This work was funded by the National Science Foundation (Award CBET-1705895).



Pictures of Nicole receiving both awards.

Academic Background

Awards

  1. AES Electrophoresis Society Blue Finger Award, 2020
  2. Wiley Innovation Award, SciX 2019
  3. FACSS Student Poster Award, 1st, Scix 2019

Projects

Journal articles

  1. Hill, N.; Coll De Peña, A.; Miller, A.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* On the potential of microscale electrokinetic cascade devices, Electrophoresis, Accepted, 2021. I.F. 2.754
  2. Miller, A. Hill, N., Hakim, K.; and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Finetuning Electrokinetic Injections Considering Nonlinear Electrokinetic Effects in Insulator-based Devices, Micromachines, 12(6):628, 2021. I.F. 2.523 , 2021. I.F. 2.523 link
  3. Coll De Peña, A.; Hill, N.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Determination of the empirical electrokinetic equilibrium condition of microorganisms in microfluidic devices, Biosensors, 10(10) 148, 2020. I.F. 3.240
  4. Coll De Peña, A.; Miller, A.; Lentz, C.J.; Hill, N. ; Parthasarathy, A.; Hudson, A. O.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Creation of an electrokinetic characterization library for the detection and identification of biological cells, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 412 3935-3945, 2020. I.F. 3.286
  5. Huber, C.; Hoitt, M.; Barlow, N.S.; Hill, N. ; Keithley, K.; Weinstein, S.J.; On the stability of waves in classically neutral flows, IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 85(2) 309-340, 2020. I.F. 1.490
  6. Hill, N. and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Continuous flow separation of particles with insulator-based dielectrophoresis chromatography, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 412 3891-3902, 2020. I.F. 3.286
  7. Weirauch, L.; Lorenz, M.; Hill, N.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Baune, M.; Pesch, G.*; Thöming, J. Material-selective separation of mixed microparticles via insulator-based dielectrophoresis, Biomicrofluidics, 13(6) 064112, 2019. I.F. 2.531
  8. Coll De Peña, A.; Mohd Redzuan, N.H.; Abajorga, M.K; Hill, N.; Thomas, J.A.;* Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Analysis of Bacteriophages with Insulator-Based Dielectrophoresis, Micromachines, 10(7) 450, 2019. I.F. 2.426
  9. Hill, N. and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* On the use of correction factors for the mathematical modeling of insulator based dielectrophoretic devices, Electrophoresis, 40 2541-2552, 2019. I.F. 2.754
  10. Polniak, D.; Goodrich, E.; Hill, N. ; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Separating large microscale particles by exploiting charge differences with dielectrophoresis, Journal of Chromatography A, 1545:84-92, 2018. I.F. 4.169. TOP TEN Journal in the Category of Analytical Chemistry.
  11. Barlow, N.S.; Stanton, C.R.; Hill, N. ; Weinstein, S.J.; Cio, A.G.; On the summation of divergent, truncated, and underspecified power series via asymptotic approximants, The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 70(1):21-48, 2017. I.F. 1.265
  12. Gupta, A.; Hill, N. ; Valenzuela, P.; Johnson, E.P.; Introducing chemical reactions concepts in K-6 through a hands-on food spherification and spaghetti-fication experiment, JSTEM, 18(1), 2017.

Conference Presentations

  1. Hill, N.; Coll De Peña, A.; Miller, A.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.*; Microparticle filtration and separation using cascade devices, Annual AES Meeting at SciX 2020 Virtual Meeting, 10/2020.
  2. Hill, N.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Coll De Peña, A.; Hill, N.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Multi-stage electrokinetic microsystem for the purification and assessment of microbes, 2019 AES Annual meeting at Scix, Palm Springs CA, 10/2019.
  3. Hill, N.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Microparticle separations using dielectrophoresis chromatography, 2019 AES Annual meeting at Scix, Palm Springs CA, 10/2019.
  4. Coll De Peña, A.; Hill, N.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Multi-stage electrokinetic microsystem for the purification and assessment of microbes, 2019 AES Annual meeting at Scix, Palm Springs CA, 10/2019.
  5. Hill, N.; Polniak, D.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Particle separation using dielectrophoresis chromatography, Annual AES Meeting @ Scix, Atlanta GA, 10/2018.
  6. Hill, N.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Assessment of correction factors employed in insulator based dielectrophoresis, Annual AES Meeting @ Scix, Atlanta GA, 10/2018.
  7. Hill, N.; King, K.R.; Barlow, N.S.; Cromer, M.E.; Weinstein, S.J.; Algebraic Growth in Linear and Nonlinear Waves, Rochester Institute of Technology Undergraduate Research Symposium, (08/2016).

Hobbies

    Writing, metalworking

Nicole Hill
Biomedical Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
Email: nsh3709@rit.edu