Prof. Magnus Berggren
Professor, Linköping University
Title: Large Scale Integrated Organic Bioelectronics – Nature Connected
Biography
Magnus Berggren received his MSc in Physics in 1991 and graduated as PhD (Thesis: Organic Light Emitting Diodes) in Applied Physics in 1996, both degrees from Linköping University. He then joined Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ in the USA, for a one-year post doc period focusing on the development of organic lasers and novel optical resonator structures. In 1997 he teamed up with Opticom ASA, from Norway, and former colleagues of Linköping University to establish the company Thin Film Electronics AB. From 1997 to 1999 he served Thin Film as its founding managing director and initiated the development of printed electronic memories based on ferroelectric polymers. After this, he returned to Linköping University and also to a part time manager at Acreo Swedish ICT. In 1999, he initiated the research and development of paper electronics, in part supported by several paper- and packaging companies. Since 2002, he is the professor in Organic Electronics at Linköping University and today he serve as the director of the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, today including more than 90 people. Magnus Berggren is one of the pioneers of the Paper Electronics, Organic Bioelectronics and Electronic Plants research areas. In 2012 Magnus Berggren was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in 2014 he received the Marcus Wallenberg Price and in 2016 he received the IVA Gold Medal. He is the co-founder of 8 companies, such as Consensum Production, Invisense (printed sensors), DP Patterning (manufacturing technology) and Ligna Energy (paper batteries).
His research interests cover utilizing organic electronics in novel applications such as in printed paper electronics and in biology applications.
Prof. Cinzia Casiraghi
Professor, University of Manchester
Title: Water-based, biocompatible and inkjet printable 2D-inks
Biography
Prof Cinzia Casiraghi graduated in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2006. She was awarded with the Humboldt Fellowship and the prestigious Kovalevskaja Award (1.6M Euro) in 2008, which allowed her to establish an independent research group at the Physics Department of the Free University Berlin (Germany). In 2010 she joined the School of Chemistry, at the University of Manchester (UK), where she holds a Chair in nanoscience. She is recipient of the Leverhulme Award in Engineering (2016) and the Marlow Award (2014), given by the Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of her meritorious contributions in the development of Raman spectroscopy for characterisation of carbon nanostructures. She authored and co-authored more than 70 peer reviewed articles, collecting more than 22k citations. Her current research work focuses on the development of 2D inks and their use in printed photodetectors, memories, thermoelectrics, sensors and biological applications.
Dr Dan Curtis
Senior Lecturer, Swansea University
Title: Novel approaches to print process control based on advanced rheometry
Biography
Dr Dan Curtis is a Senior Lecturer within the Complex Fluids Research Group of the College of Engineering, Swansea University. His research interests involve the development of advanced rheometric techniques for the study of Complex Fluids. His work on advanced manufacturing and healthcare applications involves techniques for studying fluid microstructural responses to flows under conditions of manufacturing process and clinical relevance.
His rheometric, imaging and molecular dynamics simulation studies of biopolymers have involved combined viscoelastic and spectral analysis of gel network development and have contributed to improved understanding of blood clot evolution. He is also developing NMR and microrheometric methods for studying flow within soft solids and complex fluids.
Dr Stephen Hodge
Head of Research, Versarien plc
Title: Graphene enhanced products
Biography
Dr Stephen Hodge was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Cambridge Graphene Centre at the University of Cambridge, Teaching Fellow in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Graphene Technology and is currently a bye-fellow at Murray Edwards College. He was recently appointed Versarien plc’s Head of Research, primarily responsible for overseeing all the company’s graphene and other 2d materials research and development activities, including the company’s participation in the recently announced Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre at the University of Manchester. He is based as an industrial visitor at the Cambridge Graphene Centre, to foster the training of students in Graphene Technology and develop joint projects.
Professor Andrew Holmes
Professor, Imperial College London
Title: Integration Technologies for Flexible Hybrid Electronics
Biography
Prof Andrew Holmes is co-investigator of the Interconnection Technologies for integration of Active devices with Printed Plastic Electronics (ITAPPE) project, which explores the use of Non Conductive Adhesive (NCA) packaging as an alternative route for integrating active devices on low‐temperature substrates.
Andrew Holmes received the BA degree in natural sciences from Cambridge University in 1987, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Imperial College London in 1992. He was a Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London from 1991 to 1993, after which he took up a joint Research Fellowship in Microengineering with Imperial and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. In 1995 he was appointed to a Lectureship at Imperial College London, where he is currently Professor of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Director of Postgraduate Studies, and Deputy Head of the Optical & Semiconductor Devices Group. Dr Holmes has worked on a range of topics in optical signal processing, integrated optics and MEMS, and has published around 150 journal and conference papers in these areas. His current research interests include micro-power generation by energy harvesting, power conditioning for energy harvesters, tribology of micro-scale mechanical systems, novel micro-assembly techniques, and laser processing for MEMS and electronics manufacture. He is a co-founder and director of Microsaic Systems plc, an Imperial College spin-out company started in 2001 to exploit Imperial College MEMS research. The company, which has developed a bench-top mass spectrometer based on MEMS technology, was admitted to AIM in 2011.
For a complete biography, please visit his Imperial College London profile.
Dr Antti Keranen
CTO and Co-founder, TactoTek
Title: Designing and Making Parts Using Injection Molded Structural Electronics (IMSE™)
Biography
Dr. Antti Keränen is the technology mastermind behind TactoTek structural electronics. His main responsibilities are developing and maintaining the IP portfolio, directing R&D innovation activities, and communicating the company technology vision and practical applications to the community. Antti has been a major contributor to the technology of in-mold electronics since 2005, when he joined the VTT printed electronics team. He is an Adjunct Professor of theoretical physics at the University of Oulu where he earned his PhD in 2002.
Dr Jamie Marland
Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Edinburgh
Title: Implantable microsystems for personalised anti-cancer therapy
Biography
Dr Jamie Marland is a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh, based at the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems. His research focuses on sensor development and integration for the EPSRC-funded “Implantable Microsystems for Personalised Anti-Cancer Therapy” (IMPACT) programme. Prior to this, he received his BA in Natural Sciences and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2011. His recent research at the University of Edinburgh on the miniaturisation and integration of implantable biomedical sensors was recognised by Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers, with the award of the Beloe Fellowship in October 2018.
Chuck Milligan
CEO, FlexEnable
Title: Industrialization of game-changing OTFT based flexible displays and sensors
Biography
Chuck Milligan is CEO of FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialisation of organic electronics for flexible displays and sensors. Chuck has over 25 years’ commercial and general management experience across the globe in the semiconductor, consumer electronics, communications, industrial and aerospace markets.
Prior to FlexEnable, Chuck was CEO of EM Test, a Swiss EMC test equipment company which was acquired by AMETEK. Before EM Test, he was CEO of Heptagon, a Swiss/Finnish micro-optics company, which he grew from 16 to 300 employees and for whom he established a volume production wafer facility in Singapore and outsourced module assembly in China to provide millions of optical components per month to Nokia and Apple. He has also served as VP of Industrial/Aerospace at Bookham, Commercial Director for JDS Uniphase/Nortel’s GaAs telecom pump laser diode business and Director of Sales for Harris Corporation, for whom he established a Europe/Africa Sales Office in Switzerland. Chuck also served overseas as an officer in the US Army.
Prof. Krishna Persaud
Professor, University of Manchester
Title: Integrated, solar-powered gas cards based on hybrid analogue amplifiers integrated with organic transistor sensors
Biography
Professor Persaud ‘s research interests are in the area of olfaction from physiology to chemistry. Has been involved in the development of gas sensor arrays for sensing odours based on conducting polymers, that became commercialised by Aromascan plc, now Osmetech plc. He has had a wide number of external activities such as Exchange Coordinator for the GOSPEL Network of Excellence, Committee member of the NOSE II forum and Executive secretary and treasurer of the European Chemoreception Organisation (ECRO), Treasurer of the International Society for Olfaction and Chemical Sensing (ISOCS). He has been an associate editor for a number of journals that include Materials Science and Engineering C, Biochemical Journal, IEEE Sensors Journal, Sensors and Actuators B.
He has received a number of awards that include the Prince of Wales Award for Technological Innovation Certificate 1995, European Space Agency Certificate of Achievement in 1997, Silver Medal Royal Academy of Engineering, 1999, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2002, Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control 2006. He is the founder of Multisensor Systems Ltd.
Dr Richard Price
Chief Technology Officer, PragmatIC
Title: Transforming manufacturing to deliver trillions of smart objects
Biography
Richard has over 20 years’ experience in technology commercialisation, focusing on printed electronics and materials chemistry. As a Venture Manager at the University of Manchester Intellectual Property Ltd, he led the creation of spin-out companies, including CableSense, Arvia Technology and Nano ePrint. Previously he was a Senior Chemist at Elam-T, discovering 100 novel materials. He is co-inventor of 7 patent families.
Dr. Juan Pablo Prieto-Ruiz
Printing Process Engineer, Saule Technologies
Title: Flexible perovskite solar cells
Biography
Dr. Juan Pablo Prieto-Ruiz carried out his studies in Physics at the University of Valencia (Spain). In 2015, he obtained his PhD in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the group of Prof. Eugenio Coronado ,a pioneer in the field of molecular magnetism and multifunctional materials. During this time he developed a new generation of organic light emitting spintronic devices, the so-called spin-OLEDs. In October 2015, he joined Saule Technologies team as a Printing Process Engineer, where he is working in the fabrication of perovskite solar cells by inkjet printing, focusing in the scale up of the process from laboratory to production line.
Professor Henning Sirringhaus
Professor, University of Cambridge
Title: Integrated, solar-powered gas cards based on hybrid analogue amplifiers integrated with organic transistor sensors
Biography
Prof. Henning Sirringhaus, FRS, is the Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and works on the charge transport, photo and device physics and the thermoelectric properties of conjugated polymers, molecular semiconductors and other advanced energy materials. He is co-founder of the spin-off companies, Plastic Logic/FlexEnable and Eight-19 Ltd, commercializing organic transistor and organic solar cell technology, respectively.
Prof. Vivek Subramanian, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Title: Tools and Processes for Printed Electronic Systems
Biography
Vivek Subramanian received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1998. Since 2000, he has been at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently a Professor of Electrical engineering and Computer Sciences. In 2018, Prof. Subramanian moved to École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, where he is a Professor of Microengineering.
Dr. Subramanian is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). In 2002, he was nominated to Technology Review's list of top 100 young innovators (the TR100), and his work at Matrix Semiconductor was nominated to the Scientific American SA50 list for visionary technology. Awards he has received include the Paul Rappaport Award for the best paper in an IEEE EDS journal, the IEEE Device Research Conference and the IMAPS best paper awards, the 2015 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, and the outstanding teaching award from the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Prof. Junichi Takeya
Professor, University of Tokyo
Title: Organic single-crystal transistors and integrated circuits
Biography
Jun Takeya is a professor in Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo from 2013 and is jointly appointed for a honored visiting researcher in National Institute for Material Science from 2017. He is also CTO of Pi-Crystal Inc. from 2013 and Organo-Circuit Inc. from 2016 which are start-ups founded on his scientific achievement in organic electronics. He received the B.S. degree in 1989, the M.S. degree in 1991, and Ph.D. degree in 2001 from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, all in physics. He was a research scientist in Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, from 1991 to 2006, a visiting researcher in ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, from 2001 to 2002, a visiting researcher in RIKEN, Japan, from 2005 to 2006, a visiting associate professor in IMR, Tohoku University, Japan, from 2005 to 2006, and an associate professor in Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, from 2006 to 2010. He was a professor in the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, from 2010 to 2013.
Ashutosh Tomar
Principal Engineer, Structural Electronics and smart surfaces (research), Jaguar Land Rover
Title: Applications of flexible and hybrid electronics in the car
Ashutosh Tomar has been working with various industries in research and development since 1999. His previous experience varies from developing embedded systems for telecommunications, to defense systems, to internet security, to automotive electronics. As a keen researcher and inventor for last eleven years he has been part of a Jaguar Land Rover research team working as Principal Engineer and Technical Manager in Jaguar Land Rover research. With several patents under his belt, his innovations and experience in automotive have been centered around electrical research. He has developed innovations around various aspects of cars like connected multimedia, Social infotainment, Flat and Planar speakers, laser-based heaters, light weight printed and structural electronics etc. His key recent achievement is to create automotive qualified structural electronics. This is weight and space saving, automotive qualified package using IMSE (In mold structural Electronics) and ILSE (In Laminate Structural Electronics) by employing various printed electronics techniques. He believes this will change the way electronics is packaged in the car in near future.
Dr Gwen Wyatt-Moon, University of Cambridge
Title: Schottky diodes with >1 GHz cut-off frequency fabricated from a-IGZO using adhesion lithography
Biography
Gwen Wyatt-Moon is Postdoctoral researcher in the Electrical Engineering Division at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Andrew Flewitt. She is working on the EPRSC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large-Area Electronics ‘Planalith4Manufacture’ project focusing on optimising device stability, efficiency and processing for radio frequency identification (RFID) applications. Gwen received her PhD from Imperial College London working on the adhesion lithography technique for optoelectronic applications. Previous to this she worked for a medical device company focusing on novel gas sensors and flow rheometry systems and gained her BEng in electrical and electronic engineering from Swansea University.
Dr Theodore Hughes-Riley
Research Fellow, Nottingham Trent University
Title: Microchips in yarns - a revolutionary new approach to manufacturing intelligent garments
Biography
Theo is embedded within the Advanced Textiles Research Group in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University. His main area of responsibility is to apply his physics expertise towards the development of electronic textiles. His research focus is on the development and characterisation of novel textile-based sensors to create health monitoring devices. He has a growing reputation in fields of wearable devices, electronic textile, and sensor technologies and has authored over 40 publications.
James Hayward
Principal Analyst, IDTechEx
Title: The integration of flexible electronics within wearable electronic devices
Biography
James leads IDTechEx’s research around markets and enabling technologies for wearable electronics. This includes authorship of leading market research and technology scouting reports focusing on several technology and application areas including wearable technology, wearable sensors, electronic textiles (e-textiles), augmented, virtual & mixed reality (AR, VR, MR), stretchable and conformal electronics, haptics and user interfaces.
James works with clients around the world, from small startups and research groups to Fortune 100 companies, assisting with strategy, technology scouting and new business development. This includes supporting IDTechEx's subscription and event customers, as well as bespoke projects. James is a regular speaker, both at IDTechEx events and other events around the world.
Francesc Mañosa Moncunill
Researcher, Eurecat (functional fabrics unit)
Title: Integration of fibre-based electronic devices into textile structures (Eurecat contribution to the 1D-NEON vision)
Biography:
Francesc Mañosa Moncunill, Senior Technician in Technical Design in Textiles and Leather and Technician in Commerce and Marketing. 30 years’ experience in the textile sector, in design and product development departments in several national and multinational companies of the textile industrial sector and in different subsectors; fabrics for clothing, decoration, automotive and industrial fabrics. Simultaneously he has developed teaching activity on textile technology in fashion design centers of University level. Author of the book Tecnologia i disseny de Teixits (Fabric Technology and design) (Edicions UPC, 2007) and of several translations and articles in specialized magazines.
He is currently a researcher in the functional fabrics unit of the Eurecat technology center.
Dr Felice Torissi
Lecturer, University of Cambridge
Title: Washable and wearable electronic textiles enabled by two-dimensional materials
Biography
Felice Torrisi is a University Lecturer in graphene technology in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College.
He graduated at the University of Catania in Italy, followed by a research period at the Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems of the Italian National Research Council, where he worked on di-block copolymers for phase-change memories.
He joined the Department of Engineering at Cambridge in October 2008 as PhD student, then as a Schlumberger Research Fellow and finally as a Lecturer in 2014. He received the “Parmee Prize for Entrepreneurship” from Pembroke College and the “Science of Printing” Prize from the Institute of Physics. His research interests cover printed and flexible electronics with graphene and 2D materials with applications on wearable and textile electronics.
Kay Ullrich
Representative R&D (Smart Textiles), TITV Greiz - The Institute for Special Textiles and Flexible Materials
Title: Working with smart textiles – about materials, processes, products and their testing
Biography
Mr Kay Ullrich received his diploma in the study of physical technologies from the University of Applied Science in Zwickau, Germany. Since then he has worked at TITV Greiz – initially as a scientific assistant, progressing to deputy group leader of “Smart Textiles”, and now as deputy head of Research and Development.
His field of work within TITV Greiz encompasses:
Dr Danick Briand, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Title: Towards greener electronics: Biodegradability and biomining
Biography
Danick Briand received his B.Eng. degree and M.A.Sc. degree in engineering physics from Ėcole Polytechnique in Montréal, Canada, in collaboration with the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France, in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in the field of micro-chemical sensing systems from the Institute of Microtechnology (IMT), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland in 2001. He is currently the team leader of the EnviroMEMS, Energy and Enviromental MEMS group at EPFL IMT LMTS. He has been awarded the Eurosensors Fellowship in 2010. He has been author or co-author on more than 200 papers published in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He is working on the development of environmentally-conscious Microsystems, green microtechnologies and microfabrication, and microsystems for environmental and energy applications. His research interests include polymeric MEMS, Power MEMS and energy harvesting, autonomous smart sensing systems, and printed and flexible microsystems technologies.
Gillian Ewers
VP Marketing, PragmatIC
Title: A smart approach to reduce waste
Biography
Gillian Ewers is an experienced marketing professional with a track record of launching new products to market in high tech businesses. She brings a wealth of knowledge of delivering strategic roadmaps, marketing materials and product life cycle management across multiple sectors including semiconductors and digital inkjet printing, at companies including Texas Instruments, Dialog, CSR and Xaar.
Clement Gaubert
WEEE Scheme Manager, Veolia
Title: Waste management and compliance considerations for LAEs
Biography
I have managed the Veolia WEEE Producer Compliance Scheme since 2012. I oversee all aspects of WEEE Compliance, including the collection and treatment of electrical waste the Scheme is responsible for as well as the relationship with our Producers (which includes Argos, Apple, Boots). I also represent the Scheme with the Regulators (Environment Agency and Defra).
I was involved in the development and commissioning of Veolia's own WEEE treatment facility dedicated to the recycling of flat screen televisions. The facility is based in Bridgnorth, Shropshire and opened in October 2016. It processed 3,000 tonnes of flat screens in 2018.
Marco Meloni, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Panel discussion
Biography
Marco is a Research Analyst in the Insights and Analysis team of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, working to provide evidence of the economic, environmental and societal benefits that a circular economy transition could deliver.
He has worked on a wide range of topics since joining the Foundation, ranging from applying the circular economy concept to the food system, to exploring design strategies and a vision for consumer electronics.
Marco has a background in Industrial Ecology and has worked in the field of Life Cycle Assessment before joining the Foundation. Outside of work, he is enjoying the water sport activities the Isle of Wight offers.
Sophie Isabel Verstraelen, Organic and Printed Electronics Association
Title: OE-A’s initiative on sustainability
Biography
Sophie Isabel Verstraelen has worked for VDMA as project manager at OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association) since 2015. Besides that she is responsible for public relations, press activities and she is in charge of the OE- A Working Groups Sustainability and Demonstrator.
Prior to OE-A, she worked for an international non-governmental organization in Bonn, Germany, where she was part of the global communications department, and later co-managed the EcoMobility World Festival – a unique pilot project in South Korea promoting a sustainable transport culture. She studied in the Netherlands as well as Australia and received a Bachelor of Commerce in ‘International Business and Languages’. She also holds a Master of Science in ‘Public Policy and Human Development’, with a specialization in ‘Sustainable Development’.
Dr Pedro Barquinha, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Title: Flexible oxide electronics: from TFT models to circuit integration
Biography
Pedro Barquinha, Ph.D. from Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2010, in Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Materials Science Department of FCT-NOVA. He has been working in oxide electronics since 2004, going from the design, deposition and characterization of multicomponent oxides, fabrication and characterization of oxide TFTs, to their integration in analog and digital circuits on flexible substrates. He is co-author of more than 130 peer-reviewed papers (h-index=37, as September 2018), 3 books and 4 book chapters in this area. His current research focus is to take transparent electronics to performance and integration levels suitable for future multifunctional concepts. This involves pursuing reproducible and low temperature synthesis routes of high-quality oxide nanostructures and integrating them in nanodevices and circuits using direct growth and transfer routes, always complemented by device modeling/simulation. In 2016 he got an ERC Starting Grant (TREND) to advance this research topic.
Dr Pascal Cachelin, Cambridge Display Technology Limited
Title: Low power gas sensors for distributed monitoring for post-harvest applications
Biography
Pascal holds an MChem in Chemistry from the University of Sussex, an MRes from Imperial College London as part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Plastic Electronics and a PhD from Queen Mary University of London where he studied thin film chiral nematic liquid crystalline sensors.
At CDT Pascal is a scientist in the Sensor Systems group, developing gas sensors to monitor apple crops for early signs of rot during storage within the post-harvest agricultural sector.
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Mike Clausen, Centre for Process Innovation
Title: Smart hybrid electronics: addressing the scale up challenge
Biography
Mike is the Head of Technology within the CPI Printable Electronics platform. He is responsible for providing technical leadership, developing technologies so that they can be translated to innovative products capable of commercialization in the future. Mike has 25 years’ experience within the electronics field working within research and development, mass production and customer service environments. He has worked for medium size British companies and major international blue chip organisations such as Fujitsu Microelectronics, NXP, Filtronic Compound Semiconductors and RFMD. His knowledge base spans Operations management, process engineering and integration, technology development, yield enhancement and project management.
Prof. Ravinder Dahiya, University of Glasgow
Title: Biodegradable cloth with printed electrodes for sensors and energy storage devices
Biography
Ravinder Dahiya is Professor of Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering in University of Glasgow. He has published more than 200 articles and has given more than 90 invited talks. He has more than 12 years of experience in the field of flexible electronics and has won several awards including the 2016 IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award. He is leading the Bendable Electronics and Sensing Technologies (BEST) research group with more than 20 researchers (including 7 post-docs, 12 Ph.Ds).
Henrique Leonel Gomes, University of the Algarve
Title: Conducting polymer based electrodes: A new tool to explore bioelectrical signals inaccessible using conventional electrophysiological methods
Dr Maxime Harnois, Institut d'Électronique et des Télécommunications de Rennes
Title: Water transfer printing technology for large area 3D conformable electronics
Biography
Maxime HARNOIS received his PhD. degree in 2008 from the University of Rennes (IETR Microelectronics & Microsensors group). He has joined CNRS in 2009 in BioMEMS group of the university of Lille (IEMN BioMEMS group). He is currently working at CNRS in Microelectronic & Microsensors group (IETR RENNES). His research interests include all the aspects of materials science and engineering. He has especially worked on: i) biosensor devices, ii) materials and interfaces engineering for omniphobic coating, iii) materials and methods for flexible, stretchable and conformable electronics and iv) additive manufacturing. Recently, he specializes in additive manufacturing. He is focusing on inkjet printing technology and has developed new additive manufacturing concepts such as Water Transfer Printing.
Dr Simon Johnson, Centre for Process Innovation
Title: Large area pressure sensor system for critical injury diagnosis
Biography
Simon Johnson studied Physics at undergraduate level, a Master of Engineering in IC Design at Durham and a PhD in IC Failure Mechanisms. He has worked as an IC Design Engineer and spent over 20 years as an academic at Durham University researching various aspects of IC design (including test and reliability, neural-electronic interfacing, self-reconfiguring processors) while teaching electronic devices and circuits. He setup and ran a technology start-up for 7 years which developed and sold an educational audio system for young children, and has worked in electronics instrumentation for radiation detection in industry before joining the Centre for Process Innovation in the UK. He runs an experienced team of electronics and software engineers who work on application for printable electronics at CPI.
Dr Moon Hyo Kang, University of Cambridge
Title: Air-stable hybrid CMOS operational amplifier on flexible substrates
Biography
Dr. Kang is a researcher at the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large area electronics and a postdoctoral research associate in Optoelectronics group of the Cavendish Laboratory. He received Ph.D from Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge and currently works on flexible circuit integrated using organic FETs and oxide FETs within iPESS project. He has developed new graphene transfer methods to improve mechanical stability of graphene on flexible substrates and investigated spatial and temporal stability and electrical transport mechanism of chemically doped graphene. He also worked on highly efficient OLED and FET for AMOLED display with experimental works and circuit simulation and has extensive experience of array design and sensor development. He had carried out array design and development of image sensors, gas sensor, biosensor and fingerprint sensors and X-ray sensors for Silicon Display. Co. Ltd.
Dr Jeff Kettle, Bangor University
Title: High performing AgNWs transparent conducting electrodes with 2.5Ω/Sq based upon Roll-to-Roll compatible post processing technique
Biography
Jeff Kettle has been based in the School of Electronics since 2011. During this time, he has acquired £2m of grant funding through Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, Interreg, Welsh Government and EC projects. His expertise lies in semiconductor device fabrication, characterization and modelling and has worked at one spin-out companies and a large multinational (Alcatel SEL).He also works closely with organic and inorganic chemists to produce functional devices such as OPVs, TFTs, LECs and sensors with new materials A number of his research projects and engagement with industries are focused on reliability engineering including root cause analysis (RCA), predictive ageing, reliability modelling and Design of Experiments (DoE).
Yin Cheung Lau, Swansea University
Title: Pushing the limits of screen printing: Consistent and mass-producible 25 micron conductive tracks
Biography
Yin Cheng Lau (John) is currently a research assistant in Welsh Center of Printing and Coating (WCPC). He has received the MEng degree in Chemical Engineering from Swansea University in 2013. John previously interned with Bayer MaterialScience and Haemair Ltd. He is currently pursuing the EngD degree in Materials Engineering at Swansea University sponsored by NSG Group. During his EngD, he has successfully generated generate some intellectual property which resulted in a patent being filed. His current research interest is the fabrication of conductive patterns on flexible substrates.
Dr Hanleem Lee, University of Cambridge
Title: Material engineering of 2D materials for realizing the electronics from TFT to electrochemical devices
Biography
Dr. Hanleem Lee studied at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Korea where she obtained her bachelor's degree in chemistry in 2010. She went to the Department of Energy science at the Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) for her Master and Ph.D. working on investigating the chemical reaction of nanomaterials, synthesis of the flexible composite, and fabricating the electronic devices. She joined Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP) of Institute for Basic Science in Korea during her Ph.D. (from 2015) for multidisciplinary research on 2D material-based electronics. Now, she is a Research Associate at the Department of Engineering of Cambridge University. She is in the Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy Group in the Electrical Engineering Division and working on printed electronics and fibre electronics.
Prof Jean Manca, Universiteit Hasselt
Title: Living electrical nanowires: a new paradigm for bio- and organic electronics ?
Biography
Prof. Dr. Jean Manca is full professor experimental Physics at Universiteit Hasselt (Belgium). From 2001 to 2014 he was group leader of the research group ONE2 (‘Organic and Nanostructured Electronics & Energy Conversion’) at the Institute of Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC) of Universiteit Hasselt and IMEC (Belgium). Jean Manca was a co-founder of the spin-off company LUMOZA on large area printed electroluminescent displays. In 2015 he founded the cross-disciplinary research group “X-LAB” and started with the yearly X-FESTIVAL (www.x-festival.be). Activities of X-LAB involve the cross-disciplinary investigation of photosynthesis, bio-electricity, bio-photovoltaics and the exploration of novel (bio-inspired) concepts/ materials for energy conversion, sensing and next generation electro-optical applications towards a creative and sustainable future on earth and in space.
Tanyaradzwa N. Mangoma, University of Cambridge
Title: Additive manufacturing of neuromorphic devices
Biography
Tanya is a first year PhD student at the Institute of Manufacturing, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Her PhD mainly focuses on “Additive Manufacturing of 3D Integrated Neuromorphic Devices and Neural Networks” and is supervised by Dr R. Daly and Professor G. Malliaras.
She received her MEng degree in Material Science and Engineering from the University Manchester in 2017 before joining the Centre for Doctoral Training in Ultra Precision Engineering. As part of her MRes for her doctoral training, Tanya undertook a 5 month project on neuromorphics which she continued with for her PhD project.
Tim Moor, HP1 Technologies Ltd.
Title: Large area pressure sensor system for critical injury diagnosis
Biography
Tim Moor studied product design at Northumbria University prior to working for the UK Government, researching and designing new high performance gas respirators for the military. All of Tim’s inventions are either in production or clinical trial stage and span across fields from consumer goods to medical devices. He has over 70 patents to his name and received 8 national and international awards for his designs. Including the HP1 printed flexible sensor technology (http://www.hp1t.com), he is experienced in the concept creation and development of new product through a design led innovation process.
Dr. Suman Nandy, i3N/CENIMAT
Title: Smart Power Emerging Energy Device (SPEED)
Biography
Dr. Suman Nandy has 13+ years of admirable experience in the field of Materials Science and Engineering from his Ph.D. Currently he is working on developing new polymeric platform for wearable energy harvesting device in CENIMAT-i3N research center. He is also working on mechano-electrical study and its application in self-powered writable-readable organic data sheet of conjugated polymeric films fabricated on different types of substrate. His research at CENIMAT has opened a new door towards the study of localized current transport dynamics for different nanostructure materials and device interface by AFM using different kind of electrical mode. He is one of the responsible to this characterization. He is a person who believes on “out of the box” thinking and always try to cultivate new area of research in materials engineering. It reflects, when he started a new work on bio-waste derived carbons materials towards the concept of sustainable developments. He is part of a project under horizon 2020 (1D-Neon, GA: 685758).
Dr Derek Peden, Design LED Products Ltd
Title: OLED alternative with inorganic LED based technology for diffuse lighting products
Biography
Dr Derek Peden is Innovation Manager at Design LED Products Ltd. Derek’s responsible for defining and implementing the company’s Innovation strategy and leading Innovation projects. He oversees the application for UKRI and European funding in support of the company’s Research & Innovation activities, project execution and delivery. He is engaged in managing customer led joint development projects, and manages the protection and development of DesignLED’s IP platform. Derek joined DesignLED in 2009 and was Product Development Manager prior to his role as Innovation lead. Derek has a PhD in Applied Physics, and BSc in Laser Physics and Optoelectronics, both from The University of Strathclyde.
In addition, Derek is an Innovation Champion at the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre, an industry led and demand driven Innovation Centre, with input to the work of the CSIC.
Dr Christopher Proctor, University of Cambridge
Title: Microfluidic ion pumps for seizure control
Biography
Chris received a B.Sc. in Interdisciplinary Physics from the University of Michigan in 2008. Following two years as a general scientist at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, he earned a Ph.D. in Materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara where he investigated loss mechanisms in organic photovoltaics (2015).
Subsequently, Chris was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from Whitaker International to develop implantable bioelectronic devices for treating neurological disorders at the Ecole des Mines de St Etienne. He is now continuing this work as a Research Associate and Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Grigorios (Greg) Rigas, M-Solv Ltd
Title: Additive and subtractive manufacturing for large area printed electronics
Biography
Dr. Grigorios (Greg) Rigas is currently leading the Advanced Manufacturing group at M-Solv Ltd, which focuses on the development of novel processing techniques for large area printed electronics (PE). After graduating in the top 1% of his class as an Electronic Engineer in Greece, Greg moved to Surrey to pursue an MSc in Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics, where he received a distinction for his work on PE. In 2013 he was awarded a 4-year scholarship from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) to pursue a PhD at the University of Surrey (UoS). His research project, titled “Advanced processing and characterisation of printable single crystal electronics”, aimed to tackle the key challenges associated with introducing PE into large-scale manufacture. Greg is the recipient of a series of academic awards including the 2017 Award for an Outstanding Researcher from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). His current research interests are within the field of printable biomedical devices and energy harvesting-storage configurations.
Dr Francisco Rodriguez, Cambridge Display Technology Ltd.
Title: Solution processed organic photodetectors for the near infrared
Biography
Francisco Rodriguez is a scientist at Cambridge Display Technology Limited (CDT), part of Sumitomo Chemical Co. He obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of Zaragoza. He has worked as a researcher in Tampere University of Technology, ICFO and the University of Manchester in fields such as photo-addressable polymers, second harmonic generation and other nonlinear optical parametric processes, polymer solar cells or graphene optical modulators and photodetectors. He joined CDT in January 2018 where he works mainly in the development of organic photodiodes and in their integration together with OLEDs in prototypes for multiple applications.
Cambridge Display Technology Limited (Company Number 02672530)
Dr Sanjiv Sambandan, University of Cambridge
Title: Stretchable self-healing interconnects
Biography
Sanjiv Sambandan is a lecturer at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. He holds a joint academic position at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Prior to academic appointments, he was with the Electronic Materials and Device Lab, Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre, CA, USA.
Mehmet Tas, University of Surrey
Title: Highly conductive, compressible, vertically-aligned-CNT-PDMS-metal composite films as strain sensors
Biography
Mehmet Tas is a PhD student at the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI), University of Surrey working under the supervision of Dr Vlad Stolojan and Dr Mark Baker. He studied materials engineering as his bachelor’s degree (with honours) at METU in Ankara, Turkey. He then studied a MASc study sponsored by General Motors working on carbon based-low friction coatings (diamond-like carbon) for cylinder bore applications at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada prior to joining the ATI. He has interest in semiconductor testing, flexible electronics and sensor devices.
