{"id":6994,"date":"2024-09-25T16:11:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6994"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:56:43","slug":"sebastian-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2024\/09\/25\/sebastian-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Sebastian-1-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Sebastian-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Sebastian-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Sebastian-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Sebastian-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Sebastian-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sebastian Martinez is a junior studying Biomedical Engineering at Ohio State University. Having a father as a civil engineer, Sebastian was always drawn to problem solving, which led him to take interest in biomedical engineering in high school.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summer, Sebastian continued following his passion for biomedical engineering, working on \u201cHigh Throughput Screening System for Engineered Heart Tissues\u201d in Thomas Bifano\u2019s lab. The project aims to analyze the contractile force of engineered heart tissue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sebastian is interested in device development, and will be applying to MS and PhD programs at BU and other institutions in Boston and California.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1052446340?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\" title=\"REU 2024 - Sebastian Martinez\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sebastian Martinez is a junior studying Biomedical Engineering at Ohio State University. Having a father as a civil engineer, Sebastian was always drawn to problem solving, which led him to take interest in biomedical engineering in high school.\u00a0 This summer, Sebastian continued following his passion for biomedical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9264,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions\/9264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}