Ana Moya, Investigadora línia Printed Sensors & Actuators. Unitat Functional Printing & Embedded Devices.
Eurecat

Ana Moya is a Senior Scientific in the Functional Printing and Embedded Devices Unit at Eurecat. She received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering in 2017 from UAB. She has an interdisciplinary scientific background, with solid experience in the design and development of electrochemical sensors through printing techniques specially applied to Lab-On-Chip and Organ-On-Chip systems. Her professional career is focused on the development of printing technologies to produce low-cost sensors in flexible substrates which can be of great interest in clinical and environmental analysis. Her current scientific production comprises more than 30 peer-reviewed articles with an h-index of 12. She has participated in more than 30 national and international projects.

Alex Morata, Investigador.
Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya (IREC)

Alex Morata coursed his degree and master in Physics at the University of Barcelona. He completed his PhD in the same institution, in the electronics department, dealing with the development of functional ceramic materials and film depositions for energy and gas sensing devices. In 2010 he incorporated to the Nanoionics and Fuel Cells group at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research. Since he joined IREC, he has assumed scientific supervision tasks (nine theses, two postdocs and numerous master thesis), contributed to five patents, and funding attraction and management activities, being IP of 10 public (National and European) and Industrial projects. He has been reference researcher in the lines of Solid Oxide Cells and nanoionics, and he has lead the research lines in micro-batteries and thermoelectrics. He has contributed to more than 100 scientific publications in prestigious journals of his field, worldwide recognized conferences and several book chapters.

Mariano Campoy-Quiles, Investigador Científic.
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC)

Mariano Campoy-Quiles is a materials scientist who has chosen to address one of the most critical problems facing humanity: the future supply of clean energy. He leads a 10-12 people group at ICMAB that has built substantial research efforts in two application areas, solar photovoltaic (light to electric) and thermoelectric (heat to electric) energy conversion. In the frame of his ERC CoG, he and his team have advanced a disruptive technology for the screening of PV and thermoelectric materials. He is co-author in 130 papers, including three papers in Nature Materials as well as a stream of significant papers in leading Physics and Chemistry journals. This output has earned him an h-index of 41/46 and over 8.000/10.000 citations (Scopus/Google Scholar). He is also co-inventor in five patents, and has recently co-founded a spin-off company. He is/has been the principal investigator in 15 projects (including 5 Plan Estatal, two Marie Curie ITN, an ERC Consolidator Grant, and an ERC PoC) and many contracts with industry, summing up more than 5 million €.

Gonzalo Murillo, Junior Leader – Senior Research Fellow | Founder
IMB-CNM, CSIC | ENERGIOT

Dr. Gonzalo Murillo received his Electronic Engineering Degree from the Universidad de Granada (Spain) in 2007. He obtained his PhD on energy harvesting from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2011. He was a researcher at the Nanotech-DTU (Denmark), MINATEC (France), International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Portugal) and Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA). In 2013, he joined the Microelectronic Institute of Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC) as Junior Leader thanks to “la Caixa” Foundation. In 2016, he was obtained the prestigious award as “Innovator under 35” and “Most Novel Innovator in Europe” by the MIT Technology Review (MIT TR35). Also, he was recipient of the Engega, Climate KIC and CleanTech Camp awards and finalist of “Premio Joven Relevante” Circulo Ecuestre, EDF Pulse Awards, Emprendedor XXI and Premio Everis. In 2019 and 2020, he was selected as Economic Leader of Tomorrow by Choiseul Institute. In 2020, he received the Ramon y Cajal Grant. In 2018, he also co-founded an NPO, “Clubes de Ciencia España”, to give access to high quality education to students.
In addition, he founded “Energiot Devices SL”, a startup company working on self-powered devices for smart grid, with pilots with Iberdrola (Spain), ENERCAL (New Caledonia), EDP (Spain) and Terni (Italy).

Neus Sabaté, ICREA Research Professor | Co-Founder
IMB-CNM, CSIC | FUELIUM SL

Neus Sabaté obtained her PhD in Physics in 2003. She is an ICREA Research Professor and leader of the Self-Powered Engineered Devices Group at the Microelectronics Institute of Barcelona (IMB-CNM). She has co-authored more than 100 papers in journals and conferences and submitted 15 patents. She is an expert in microfabricated fuel cells, a research line that evolved to the biodegradable electrochemical power sources she develops today. In 2015 she obtained an ERC-Consolidator Grant to develop single-use self-powered sensors as key components of a new generation of affordable and efficient point-of-care devices. She also co-founded Fuelium SL, a company that commercializes paper batteries for single use applications.Her innovative vision on the quest of generating sustainable solutions for single use diagnostic devices and the capability of transferring them to the market by launching and co-funding spin-off initiatives has been recently acknowledged with several awards. In 2020, she was appointed Finalist of the EU Women Innovators in the Main Category award, she obtained the national Prize of Physics, Innovation and Technology of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics and was awarded with the Award to Technological Innovation from the Foundation for Entrepreneurial Women of Catalonia.

Marisa Catalán, Wireless Sensor Networks Research Line Manager
i2CAT FOUNDATION

La Dra. Marisa Catalán dirigeix actualment la línia d’investigació en Internet de les Coses (IoT), que forma part de l’àrea de recerca en Mobile Wireless Internet (MWI) a la Fundació i2CAT. També és la responsable tècnica local del laboratori The Thinx 5G Barcelona, un laboratori que funciona com un accelerador de productes facilitant la transferència de coneixements en tecnologies 5G, com ara LTEM i NB-IoT.
Enginyera de telecomunicacions i doctora en enginyeria telemàtica, anteriorment va treballar com a investigadora en el Wireless Networks Group (WNG) de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Compta amb una experiència de més de quinze anys en tecnologies IoT sense fils (UWB, IEEE802.15.4, Zigbee,6LoWPAN, LPWAN), en xarxes de sensors i en la implementació de prototips i bancs de proves. Ha participat activament en més de 30 projectes nacionals i internacionals tant en l’àmbit públic com el privat. En l’actualitat és la responsable técnica del projecte “Infraestructures de Carrer Connectat “ de l’agrupació Fem-IoT.