CMU Portugal Researchers at Universidade de Coimbra (UC), Mahmoud Tavakoli and Manuel Reis Carneiro, were honored with the J. Norberto Pires Innovation Prize. The third edition of the award, sponsored by UC, recognized the research team for their contributions to the field of wearable electronics.
Manuel Reis Carneiro is currently a Dual Degree Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at both UC and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and is supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli, Director of the “Soft and Printed Microelectronics Laboratory” (SPM) from FCTUC.
The winning project “E-skins: Wearable Bio Stickers for Long-Term Electrophysiology”, focuses on the development of electronic patches for monitoring health data, such as heartbeat and brain activity, The project builds on the findings of the CMU Portugal Large Scale Collaborative Research project WoW.
The award ceremony took place on September 25th, where Carneiro and Tavakoli, along with their team partner Pedro Lopes, were recognized for their research.
Credits: University of Coimbra
According to the team “With E-Skins, we propose an innovative architecture of materials and methods for implementing multi-electrode thin-film bioelectronic patches for continuous electrophysiological monitoring over long periods of time. Unlike other existing wearable patches, this solution can be worn for more than a week and is unaffected by daily routines such as exercise or showering. For the electrodes, we use a patented conductive ink that combines the advantages of dry electrodes (printability and material integrity) with the advantages of wet electrodes (high signal quality).”
Manuel Carneiro has been working throughout his Ph.D. on developing stretchable electronic circuits and wearable electronics, supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli and Carmel Majidi at CMU.
Mahmoud Tavakoli manages a multi-disciplinary research team of Electrical, Chemical, Biomedical and Mechanical Engineers at UC that combines expertise in nanomaterials, polymers, and liquid conductors to drive applications in soft robotics, soft electronics, smart textile, smart plastics, and health monitoring.
Tavakoli’s research work has received substantial support from the CMU Portugal Program and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). Through the Program, the FCTUC team has collaborated with the Soft Machines Lab from Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering on several impactful projects: Stretchtonics, one of CMU Portugal Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives; WoW, one of the Program’s Large Scale Collaborative Research Projects and the Exploratory Research Project Exoskins.
For more details, you can read the original article on the UC website.
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- Mahmoud Tavakoli features in Nature’s “Where I Work”
- CMU Portugal Researcher at Universidade de Coimbra wins a 2.8M€ ERC Grant Consolidator
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