Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer is a professor in micro-engineering and bio-nanotechnology and a Royal Academy of Engineering research fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering and the Healthcare Technologies Institute (HTI). Professor Oppenheimer leads an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Birmingham, closely working with the clinical teams at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEHB) and Birmingham Enterprise (UoBE), the University’s technology transfer specialists. Her group's research programme is targeted at exploring the frontiers of micro- to nanomaterials engineering while bridging the gap between nano-to-macroscopic-level understanding and implementations of novel hybrid and nanocomposite materials and submicron structures for miniaturised functional devices for advanced healthcare applications. Professor Oppenheimer is developing cutting-edge engineering solutions to tackle major medical problems. Professor Oppenheimer's research interests lie in nano- and submicron structure formation (please see the ANMSA group website: Advanced Nano-Materials, Structures and Applications) at surfaces and in thin films, including pioneering the potential use of hierarchical electrohydrodynamically generated functional structures to develop novel polymer-based nano-detection devices.