Fengyuan Liu received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Nanjing University in 2012 and 2015, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Glasgow in 2020. His research interests include electronic skin, robotic tactile sensing, printed and flexible electronics, and emerging neuromorphic devices. He has published 43 papers in prestigious journals including Science Robotics, Nature Electronics, Advanced Mateirals, etc. witha total citation of ~1600.
He is currently a Marie Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow jointly hosted by Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Northeastern University in the USA, where he leads the project: “Neuro-encoded Electronic Skin (NEUCODES)”.
He is the researcher Co-I on the EPSRC-funded project “Green Optimized Printed Integrated Circuits (GEOPIC)”, guest editor of npj Flexible electronics, IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics, Biomimetics, and TPC co-chair of the IEEE Online Forum on Climate Change Technologies (OFCCT) in 2024 and 2025.
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Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Via Sommarive, 18 38123 Trento - I
Leandro Lorenzelli leads the Microsystems Technology Unit of the Sensors and Devices Centre. His group’s research focuses on micro-technologies for micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), physical and bio-chemical sensors, lab-on-a-chip technology, and flexible sensors. The application fields are in the biomedical, environmental, and space sectors. He has coordinated several national and international projects in the field of microsystems as the Principal Investigator and authored/edited of more than 100 articles in peer- review specialized publications and four patents. Dr Lorenzelli has served as Associate Editor and Guest Editor for different IEEE and non-IEEE journals and is a committee member of several international conferences.
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Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Via Sommarive, 18 38123 Trento - I
Ravinder Dahiya is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. His multidisciplinary research interests include Flexible and Printable Electronics, Microelectronics, e-skin, Robotics Tactile Sensing, and System Integration. His group (Bendable Electronics and Sustainable Technologies (BEST)) conducts research in flexible printed electronics, electronic skin, and their applications in robotics, prosthetics, wearables, and interactive systems. He has authored or co-authored more than 500 publications, books and submitted/granted patents and disclosures. He has led or contributed to many international projects.
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Northeastern University
360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Dr. Hannes Saal is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Sheffield, where he leads the Active Touch Laboratory. His research focuses on the sense of touch, combining methods from computational neuroscience, human psychophysics, and machine learning to understand how we perceive and interact with our environment through touch. Dr. Saal's profile makes him an ideal supervisor for this secondment due to his expertise in the biological basis of tactile perception and his experience with interdisciplinary research that bridges the gap between neuroscience and robotics.
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The University of Sheffield
School of Psychology
ICOSS Building
219 Portobello
Sheffield S1 4DP, UK