Zulf has an interdisciplinary background with research interests that includes microfabrication, microfluidics for point-of-care diagnostic devices and for biological processing as well as related work on transducer development, particularly for electrochemical and optical sensing, and AI for sensor data. He has been the Technical Manager for the Horizon Europe HoliCare project (https://holicare-project.org/) on diagnostics for respiratory tract infections in sub-saharan Africa as well as the SusFe project on sustainable functional electronics (https://susfeproject.eu/).
He is currently the PI at the University of Cumbria for the Horizon Europe EDCTP3 UTI-Diag project on diagnostics and antibiotic stewardship for urinary tract infections and the Eurkea Xecs (electronic components and systems) Multistripes project to create complex circuitry, interconnects and mass die transfer on large area/volume foils. Zulf was previously involved in the FP7 Diginova project developing a roadmap for digital fabrication and the Horizon 2020 GateOne project on smart system integration for SMEs. At the University of Cumbria, Zulf largely carries out his research through the Institute of Engineering, Computing and Advanced Manufacturing (IoECAM) as well as the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine Research Hub.
Zulf has led a number of knowledge exchange initiatives including for the process industries cluster, digital manufacturing and supporting regional businesses in the EU marketplace. He was a board director for the Centre of Excellence in Nanotechnology, Microsystems, and Photonics (CENAMPS) which was merged with the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Zulf has patent on Cavity Enhanced Absorption Spectrometry within microfluidic devices and was founder of a spin-out company.
