Venue

The workshop will be held at i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde.
Rua Alfredo Allen, 208; 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
Tel: +351 226 074 900 | Site: http://www.i3s.up.pt/ | E-mail: events@i3s.up.pt
GPS coordinates: 41º 10’ 30.008’’ N, 8º 36’ 12.488’’ W.

Organization

Host committee:
Andreia Pereira (i3S – Porto)
João Ventura (IFIMUP – Porto)

Scientific committee:
Ana Catarina Almeida (i3S – Porto)
Ana Mendes (i3S – Porto)
André Pereira (IFIMUP – Porto)
Cátia Rodrigues (IFIMUP – Porto)
Daniela Sousa (i3S – Porto)
Inês Gonçalves (i3S – Porto
Sofia Rocha (i3S – Porto)

Program

Day 1 | 27th November

13h45 - 14h00 Registration

14h00 - 14h15 Welcome session

14h15 - 14h45 Invited Speaker | Energy-Harvesting Assisted Biosensors: Evolving from Power-Limited to Energy-Limited Architectures

Andoni Beriain – Associate Professor, TECNUN, School of Engineering, University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain)

14h45 – 15h15 Flexible eletronics for healthcare

André Pereira – Principal Researcher, Institute of Physics for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics (IFIMUP), Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)

15h15 – 15h45 Oral Presentations I

15h15 - 15h25 Revolutionizing Healthcare with Pyroelectric Implantable Sensors: A Pathway Towards Smarter Diagnostics and Monitoring | Mariana Rocha
15h25 - 15h35 Solid-liquid contact triboelectric nanogenerators series | Carlos Callaty
15h35 - 15h45 Blood Flow as a Sustainable Energy Source for Implantable Electronic Devices | Ana Mendes

15h45 - 16h15 Coffee break

16h15 – 16h45 Invited Speaker | Biosensing with graphene

Pedro Alpuim – Principal Investigator, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) (Braga, Portugal)

16h45 – 17h15 From Blood Flow to Electrical Energy: A Path to Batteryless Intelligent Medical Devices

Andreia T. Pereira – Junior Researcher, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S) (Porto, Portugal)

17h15 – 17h30 SpeedTalks

17h30 – 18h30 Poster session & Porto D’Honra

20h00 - 22h00 Dinner

Day 2 | 28th November

09h00 - 09h45 Invited Speaker (online) | Nanogenerators for medical science and energy

Prof. Zhong Lin Wang – Director & Chief Scientist, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems (BINN) (Beijing, China)

09h45 – 10h15 Triboelectric-driven energy harvesting in wearables and implantable devices

João Oliveira Ventura – Principal Researcher, Institute of Physics for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics (IFIMUP), Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)

10h15 – 10h45 Oral Presentations II

10h15 - 10h25 Capitalizing strain gradients to design osteoinductive electromechanical transducers | Nathalie Barroca
10h25 - 10h35 The Self-Powered Sentinel: Smart Vascular Grafts for Continuous Thrombus Monitoring | Sofia Rocha
10h35 - 10h45 Thin Film Solid-State Micro-Batteries for Wearable And Implantable Applications | Chadrasekhar Loka

10h45 - 11h15 Coffee break

11h15 – 11h55: Invited Speaker | Super-Smart Textiles for Remote Health Monitoring

Ishara Dharmasena – Associate Professor, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow & Senior Lecturer, Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical & Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University (UK)

12h00 – 13h00 Plenary Talk | Wearable Bioelectronics for Medical Diagnostics

Prof. Onur Parlak – Assistant Professor, Karolinska Institute in the Department of Medicine (Stockholm, Sweden)

13h00 – 14h30 Lunch

14h30 – 15h00 Invited Speaker | Nanogenerators and Self-powered Bioelectronic Microdevices for Wireless Cell Stimulation

Gonzalo Murillo – Tenure Scientist, Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB CNM, CSIC) (Barcelona, Spain)

15h00 – 15h30 Invited Speaker | Smart Materials, Healthier Hearts: Piezoelectric Strategies for Post-MI Repair

Diana S. Nascimento – Assistant Professor, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S) (Porto, Portugal)

15h30 - 16h00 Closing, Awards & Coffee break

16h00 - 18h00 Practical sessions

A. Harvesting Energy from Liquids to Power Medical Electronic Devices
B. Powering the Human Body: Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Biomedical Applications
C. Designing Low-Power Wireless Implantable Systems

Speakers

Andoni Beriain

Andoni Beriain is Associate Professor at Tecnun (University of Navarra) and co-founder of KLISKATEK, a startup developing wireless and batteryless sensing solutions. He earned Master’s degrees in Telecommunications and Biomedical Engineering, and completed a PhD on biomedical sensors, RFID, and low-power analog ASICs.
At Ceit-Tecnun, he helped design the ROCKY100 RFID chip, achieving two patents and over one million units commercialized. Since 2017, his research has focused on RFID ASICs and energy harvesting circuits, leading European and national projects such as SENSOFT, CAR2CAR, and BLOOD2POWER. He has also worked internationally (Grenoble INP, INANO-ENERGY Porto) and authored over ten scientific papers and one book chapter.

André Pereira

André Miguel Trindade Pereira is a Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP) and a researcher at the IFIMUP – Institute of Physics for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics. Since 2013, he has been conducting cutting-edge research in the fields of multifunctional materials, nanotechnologies, flexible electronics, energy harvesting, and topological insulators, with a strong focus on sustainable and innovative approaches.
He is the author or co-author of more than 150 scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals, with over 5,100 citations and an h-index of 38 (Scopus). He coordinates and participates in several European and national projects, including initiatives under Horizon Europe (EIC and MSCA), and supervises multiple MSc, PhD, and postdoctoral researchers.
His work bridges fundamental and applied research, addressing emerging challenges in energy, health, and intelligent wearable sensing, and has made a significant impact on the international scientific and technological community.

Andreia T. Pereira

Institute Andreia Trindade Pereira is a junior researcher at i3S in Porto, Portugal, specializing in biomaterials and biomedical innovation. She completed her PhD in 2020 in the GABBA program (University of Porto, in collaboration with the Medical University of Vienna). Working at the interface of polymer chemistry, nanomaterials, and bioengineering, she develops polymer–nanomaterial systems for medical devices and evaluates their biological performance, with emphasis on biocompatibility, bioelectrical interfaces, and device integration. Since 2021, she has established and leads a research line on energy-harvesting systems for biomedical use - powering smart medical devices and enabling electrostimulation therapies - from materials selection to device engineering and biological validation. Her experience spans collaborations across national and international laboratories. Beyond research, she serves as a Young Editor (MedMat) and journal referee, participates in evaluation panels and advisory boards, mentors students, and advances technology transfer as an inventor and project lead. Her contributions have been recognized with the Maria de Sousa Prize, the L’Oréal Portugal Honor Medal for Women in Science, and the Julia Polak Award.

Diana S. Nascimento

Diana S Nascimento is an investigator at Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S) and an assistant researcher and professor at Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto. The main goal of DS Nascimento research is the development of more efficient bioengineered therapies for cardiovascular disorders, with special emphasis on driving cardiac regeneration and/or inhibiting the formation of fibrosis. In the past years, her team has done significant contributions, namely on: 1) therapies to improve heart repair, namely by resorting to piezoelectric materials; 2) advancing the knowledge on cardiac regeneration and cardiogenesis; 3) extracellular matrix aging and remodeling after injury; 4) new approaches to analyze the cardiac injury response.

Gonzalo Murilo

Dr. Gonzalo Murillo is a Tenured Scientist at the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC), where he leads the NEMESYS Lab. He earned his PhD in Electronic Engineering from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2011 and has conducted research at institutions such as Infineon, MINATEC, DTU, INHA University, INL, and Georgia Tech under Prof. Z. L. Wang. His work on nanogenerators, bioelectronic microdevices, and environmental energy harvesting has led to more than 50 publications, several patents, and European projects. Founder of the spin-off Energiot Devices SL, he develops self-powered IoT solutions for smart grids. He also serves as an expert evaluator and jury member for the European Commission’s EIC Transition and Pathfinder programs. Dr. Murillo was recognized as MIT Innovator Under 35 Europe (2016) and awarded the Spanish National Research Award for Young Scientists in Technology Transfer (2023).

Ishara Dharmasena

Dr Ishara Dharmasena is an Associate Professor at the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, and a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Research Fellow. He obtained his B.Sc. Engineering degree from University of Moratuwa (2014), and his PhD in Electronics Engineering and Nanoelectronics from University of Surrey (2019). In 2020, he obtained the Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Ishara’s research focusses on nanogenerators, smart textiles and wearable electronics. His work has resulted in pioneering contributions to the field of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), including the distance-dependent electric field (DDEF) theory, contact-mode DC-TENG technology and super-smart textiles technology. In 2021, he was awarded an RAEng Research Fellowship to conduct research on wearable and self-powered health monitoring technologies. Ishara has previously worked in the smart textiles and nanotechnology industries for over 10 years. His work has been published in leading journals including Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Energy Materials and Nano Energy. He was an invited speaker in several leading conferences including the European Materials Society Meetings. Ishara’s has acquired more than £2 million in funding for his research from various funders including the Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, EPSRC, and the National Research Council of Sri Lanka. He was a recipient of the prestigious EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship from 2019 to 2021.
Ishara actively engages with media and outreach activities, and he has showcased his work in major UK events such as Royal Society Summer Science 2023, RAEng Innovation late 2023, and via media channels including BBC. He has won several prestigious awards including UK’s Young Engineer of the Year for 2024 (Awarded by the RAEng), Sri Lanka President’s Award for Scientific Research, ABTA Doctoral Researcher Award and The Textile Institute Gold Medal.

João Ventura

João Ventura is a Principal Researcher at the Institute of Physics for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics (IFIMUP), Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, working on memristive-based neuromorphic applications and advanced triboelectric nanogenerators. He is also the Vice-Director of the Micro- and Nano-Fabrication Unit of the University of Porto (CEMUP-MNTEC) and Vice-President of IFIMUP. He was able to attain over 2.0 M€ of funding for his own institution from a large number of renowned international and national institutions, such as the European Commission (EIC Pathfinder, ATTRACT, COST Association), the European Space Agency, La Caixa Foundation, the Lloyd's Register Foundation or Repsol Foundation. His research activities resulted in the (co-)authorship of 1 book, 8 book chapters, 190+ scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals (including Nature Nanotechnology, Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Energy Materials, Nano Energy or Physical Review Letters). His published work has received over 5900 citations, ensuing an h-index of 40.

Pedro Alpuim

Pedro Alpuim holds a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon (IST, 2003). His Ph.D. thesis was on thin-film silicon devices on plastic substrates for flexible electronics. Since then, he has been a professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Minho. As a researcher, he is affiliated with the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Braga, where he has served as the group leader of the 2D Materials and Devices group since 2016. The group grows graphene and other 2D materials by chemical vapor deposition and liquid-phase exfoliation, fabricating graphene devices at the wafer scale for bio-sensing applications. They have developed different environmental sensors and touchscreen panels based on large-area applications of 2D materials in inks. His research interests include micro- and nanoelectronic devices, graphene-electrolyte interfaces, single-photon emitters from hBN, and devices based on light-matter interactions.

Onur Parlak

Onur Parlak is an Assistant Professor at the Karolinska Institute in the Department of Medicine, Solna, and at Karolinska University Hospital in the Dermatology and Venereology Division. Dr. Parlak earned his Ph.D. in Bioelectronics from Linköping University in 2015, followed by postdoctoral research at Stanford University in the US, where he specialized in wearable bioelectronics. After spending three years at Stanford, he returned to Sweden and joined the Karolinska Institute to apply his engineering skills in a medical setting. In 2021, he received an award from the Karolinska Institute and served as a research group leader as part of the institute’s investment program, which aims to recruit and support outstanding young researchers with significant scientific merit and potential. Recently, he was also awarded grants by the European Innovation Council and the Swedish Research Foundation in Medicine and Health, focusing on diagnostics and therapeutic medical devices. His research group at the Karolinka Institute and the Centre for Molecular Medicine specializes in epidermal sensors and personalized diagnostics.

Zhong Lin Wang

Dr. Zhong Lin Wang is a preeminent physicist and materials scientist whose groundbreaking work has revolutionized the fields of nanotechnology, energy harvesting, and self-powered systems. He currently serves as the Director of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems and holds the distinguished titles of Regents' Professor and Hightower Chair (Emeritus) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Wang is widely recognized as the pioneer of the nanogenerators field, which has enabled advancements in distributed energy, self-powered sensors, and large-scale blue energy. Additionally, he coined and developed the fields of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics, which have significant implications for third-generation semiconductors. Dr. Wang’s scientific impact is unparalleled. Among 100,000 scientists across all fields worldwide as ranked by Elsevier and Stanford, he has been ranked #1 for single-year scientific impact continuously from 2019 to 2024, #2 in career scientific impact, and #1 in Materials Science. His research has garnered over 500,000 citations on Google Scholar, with an extraordinary h-index of 337, underscoring his immense influence and contributions to science.
Throughout his illustrious career, Dr. Wang has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Global Energy Prize (2023), the Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2019), the ENI Award in Energy Frontiers (2018), the James C. McGroddy Prize in New Materials from the American Physical Society (2014), and the MRS Medal from the Materials Research Society (2011). His groundbreaking work has earned him memberships and fellowships in some of the world’s most esteemed scientific academies, including the US National Academy of Inventors, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (as a foreign member), the European Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Engineering, the Korea Academy of Science and Technology (as a foreign member), the Academia Sinica, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering (as an International Fellow).
Wang’s pioneering contributions to nanogenerators, piezotronics, and self-powered systems have not only advanced fundamental science but also paved the way for transformative technologies in energy harvesting, sensing, and semiconductor development. His exceptional scientific impact, numerous accolades, and leadership in the global scientific community underscore his status as one of the most influential materials scientists of our time.

Personal website: www.wanggenerator.com

Abstract Submission

The call for abstracts will be open until 6th October 2025 (notification of acceptance until 8th October). The abstract will be evaluated and selected either for oral communication or poster presentation. Abstracts not selected for oral communication will be automatically considered for poster presentation.

Abstracts should follow the formatting rules indicated in the template below:

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Registration

Registration fee includes coffee breaks, lunch on 28^th November and dinner on 27^th November.

Fees:
Students*: 50€
Others: 100€
* Students should enclose a letter confirming their status signed by their supervisors or other documents that prove their status.

Registration and payment deadline: 27th October 2025

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