This symposium will explore recent advances in organic bioelectronics, with a focus on innovative semiconductive/conductive materials and strategies that drive progress at the intersection of electronics and biology. Emphasis will be placed on devices designed for interfacing with living systems, including tools for stimulation, sensing, and recording at the cellular and tissue level. We will also highlight cutting-edge research on the characterization of the biohybrid interfaces, to foster the optimization of the living specimens/materials integration.
Finally, the symposium will cover the emerging frontier of living electronic devices, which harness biological components as functional elements in electronic architectures. By bringing together expertise from materials science, bioengineering, and device physics, this symposium aims to promote cross-disciplinary dialogue and promote the design of next-generation bioelectronic technologies.
- Innovative device fabrication strategies
- Organic bioelectronics devices for the stimulation and recording of cell activity
- Characterization of organic materials/living cells biohybrid interfaces
- Living electronic devices
- Translation from research to clinical practice of bioelectronic devices
Alberto D. Scaccabarozzi is currently an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track Researcher – RTT) at the Department of Physics at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He received his PhD from Imperial College London (UK) in 2017, where he worked under the supervision of Prof. Natalie Stingelin.
Following his doctoral studies, he held postdoctoral appointments at the Center for Nanoscience and Technology (CNST) of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Milan (Italy) in Dr. Mario Caironi’s group, and at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, in Prof. Thomas D. Anthopoulos' group.
Currently, his research interests encompass the broad field of organic electronics, with a focus on understanding structure-processing-property relationships of organic semiconductors for a wide range of devices. More recently, he has been expanding his research into bioelectronics, exploring the interface between organic semiconductors and living cells. This includes studying the electronic properties of electrically active bacteria and their potential integration into optoelectronic devices, bridging the gap between organic electronics and biological systems.
Dr. Esma Ismailova, Associate Professor with an HDR at Mines de Saint-Etienne (EMSE), France. She received her BSc. in Physics and a Master’s degree in Polymer Science at Strasbourg University in France, where she also completed her PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Physics sponsored by STMicroelectronics. She then joined the Laboratory for Organic Electronics at Cornell University, NY, USA as a PostDoc, studying the interface between biology and electronics. In 2010, she joined EMSE to establish a micro-fabrication platform for soft biocompatible neural implants at the Bioelectronics Department. Her current research interests focus on the design and fabrication of novel organic electronic devices for multi-parametric sensing. Dr. Ismailova has initiated national and international collaborations to develop organic wearable devices on textiles for healthcare.
Marta Mas-TorrentEleni Stavrinidou is an Associate Professor and leader of the Electronic Plants group at Linköping University. She received a PhD in Microelectronics from EMSE (France) in 2014. She then did her postdoctoral training at Linköping University (Sweden) during which she was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship. In 2017 Eleni Stavrinidou became Assistant Professor in Organic Electronics at Linköping University and established the Electronic Plants group. She received several grants including a Swedish Research Council Starting Grant and she is the Coordinator of the HyPhOE-FET-OPEN project. In 2019 she received the L’ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science prize in Sweden. In 2020 she became Associate Professor and Docent in Applied Physics. The same year she was awarded the Future Research Leaders grant of the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. Her research interests focus on organic electronics for plant monitoring and optimization, energy applications and bio-hybrid systems.
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