Vahideh Faghihi

PhD student (Grenoble 2010-2011, Groningen 2009-2015)

Project: Water isotope ratio measurements in ecology and biomedicine

Vahideh has built a water isotope ratio spectrometer for biomedical experiments during the 12 months in 2010-2011 she spent in Grenoble. The spectrometer is based on near-infrared, cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy (OFCEAS, a technique patented by the UJF and commercialized through its business unit Floralis) and has been applied at the Center for Isotope Research of the University of Groningen (RUG, The Netherlands) in so-called doubly labeled water experiments to measure energy expenditure of small animals. In Groningen, the work is supervised by Prof. Gertjan van Dijk (Biology) and Prof. Harro Meijer (CIO). At the beginning of 2014 Vahideh moved to England, where she is currently writing her thesis, which she hopes to defend at the RUG in 2015.