Printed sensors for health and environmental monitoring

A variety of sensors will be presented, realized using printing techniques which offer the advantage low costs and environmental friendliness with respect to conventional fabrication routes. The active part of the sensors is based on nanomaterials, e.g. carbon nanotubes, which are dispersed in a solvent to form an ink which in turn can be easily printed. Recent strides in materials science have provided substrates which guarantee flexibility, stretchability, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. The resulting sensors can find applications in environmental monitoring, in agriculture, in IoT systems and in healthcare applications.

Prof. Paolo Lugli earned his degree in Physics from the University of Modena (1979) and completed his M.Sc. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) in Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University. He held academic positions at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” where he became Full Professor of Optoelectronics in 1993. In 2002, he joined the Technical University of Munich as founding director of the Institute for Nanoelectronics and later served as Dean of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2015–2016). From 2017 to 2024, he was Rector of the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano. His research focuses on nanoelectronics and optoelectronics, including printed electronics, organic devices, nanoimprint lithography, and device modeling and simulation. He has authored over 550 scientific publications and co-authored the books "The Monte Carlo Modelling for Semiconductor Device Simulations" (Springer, 1989) and “High Speed Optical Communications“ (Kluver Academic, 1999). Prof. Paolo Lugli is an IEEE Fellow and member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering.