Archives: Presenters

Prof Colin Fitzpatrick is Head of Department and an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering at the University of Limerick, Ireland

His research interests cover a range of topics in the area of technology and sustainability including the Circular Economy, WEEE Management, Electronics Repair & Reuse, Electricity Demand Management, Conflict Minerals, Planned Obsolescence, & Environmental Sensing and he has published widely in these areas.

His teaching areas include Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering, Electronics & the Environment, and Energy Demand Management.

He has chaired the National Standards Authority of Ireland Technical Committee 22 “Environmental Standardization for Electrical and Electronic Products and Systems” the national mirror committee for European and International Standardisation bodies in this area.

He has been a member of the International Program Committee for Care Innovation in 2014 and in 2018 and for Electronics Goes Green in 2016 and 2020. He has hosted the UNU E-Waste Academy for Scientists in Limerick in 2016 and will again in September 2022.

He was conference Chair for the Product Lifetimes and the Environment (PLATE) virtual conference in 2021.

Dr. Stefania Carapezzi is currently holding the position of Post-Doc Researcher at the group PHYDENANO (https://www.lirmm.fr/aida-todri-sanial/) of Dr. Aida Todri-Sanial, Microelectronics Department, LIRMM, University of Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France. Her research focuses on the field of Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD) modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices. Presently, she is investigating Beyond CMOS devices: 1) vanadium-dioxide oscillators and 2) 2D Molybdenum disulfide memristors, to be applied in Oscillatory Neural Networks, an innovative neuromorphic computing architecture which is at the core of the H2020 European Project NeurONN (https://www.neuronn.eu/). Previously, she was involved in developing TCAD models for nanoscaled transistors, such as short channel double-gate III-V MOSFETs, and suspended carbon nanotube FET. Carapezzi received her Ph. D. in Physics at the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. Prior to joining CNRS, she was Research Fellow at the Department of Physics and then at the Advanced Research Center on Electronic System, University of Bologna.

Wei Gao is an Assistant Professor of Medical
Engineering, Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar, and Heritage
Medical Research Institute (HMRI) Investigator in Division of
Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of
Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at
the University of California, San Diego in 2014 as a Jacobs
Fellow and an HHMI International Student Research Fellow. In
2014-2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University
of California, Berkeley.
He is an Associate Editor of Science Advances. He is a recipient of Pittsburgh Conference
Achievement Award, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, Sloan
Research Fellowship, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, IEEE EMBS Early Career
Achievement Award, IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award, MIT
Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, and ACS DIC Young Investigator Award.
He is a Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science), a World Economic Forum Young
Scientist, a member of Global Young Academy, and a National Academy of Engineering’s
USFOE alumnus. His research interests include wearable biosensors, digital medicine,
micro/nanorobotics, bioelectronics, and nanomedicine.
For more information about Gao’s research, visit www.gao.caltech.edu.

Eva Melnik, works at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH as a scientist in the field of biosensor development for point-of-care.

She received her PhD in chemistry from the University of Vienna, Austria, in the field of surface modification of photonic sensors for biomedical applications. She is currently working on the advanced development of printed electrochemical sensors.

Her research interests include concepts for printable surface modification and On-Chip reagent integration to realize ready-to-use biosensors for medical use.

Dr Whiting is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, and the Principal Investigator for the Boulder Experimental Electronics and Manufacturing (BEEM) Laboratory.  His research is focused at the intersection of additive manufacturing, novel materials, and functional devices. The BEEM Lab uses printing as a method to fabricate unconventional electronic components and systems including those that are that can be readily customized, mechanically flexible/conformable, large area, widely distributed, biocompatible, and controllably transient.  These devices can find application in a wide range of areas with a current focus on developing sensing devices designed for integration into the environment (for example in soil and plants), to optimize agricultural inputs, enhance soil carbon and nitrogen stocks, and reduce energy consumption.