The IEEE Greece Section Women in Engineering Affinity Group organizes its 1st Panhellenic Meetup on Friday 9th of October 2020 at 17:00 through Zoom platform. During this event we will introduce WIE to the broader public and offer an opportunity to meet inspiring women.

Asimina Kiourti, assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ohio State University, USA will give a talk on “Electromagnetics for Next-Generation Body Area Sensing”.

Science Reactors will complete the event with stand-up comedy!
If you are interested in participating, please fill the application form below and submit it by 08/10/20: https://forms.gle/TX7UntNqBX7f5CnWA 

Electromagnetics for Next-Generation Body Area Sensing

Rapid advances in bio-electromagnetics and materials are opening new and unexplored opportunities in body area sensing. This talk will discuss next-generation wearables and implants that break the state-of the-art boundaries in terms of seamlessness, capabilities, and performance. Focus will be on research efforts carried out in our group towards: a) functionalized garments that monitor body motion in real-world settings, b) wearable antennas for into-body radiation with unprecedented bandwidth and efficiency, c) portable sensors for capturing the naturally emanated magnetic fields by the human body as a predictor of abnormalities, and d) wireless and batteryless implants for deep-brain sensing. Enabling technologies will also be discussed, with a special focus on embroidered e-textiles. Flexibility and mechanical/thermal robustness associated with such conductive surfaces makes them highly attractive for numerous applications besides garments (e.g., efficient antenna folding and packaging; reconfigurable antenna surfaces). Our ultimate vision entails unobtrusive wearables and implants employed “in-the-wild” for applications as diverse as healthcare, sports, defense, space, emergency, consumer electronics, and beyond.

Asimina Kiourti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University where she directs the Wearable and Implantable Technologies group. From 2013 to 2016 she served as a Post-Doctoral Researcher and then a Senior Research Associate at Ohio State’s ElectroScience Laboratory. Prior to that, she received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2013) and the M.Sc. degree from University College London, UK (2009). Prof. Kiourti’s research interests lie in bio-electromagnetics, wearable and implantable antennas, sensors for body area applications, and flexible textile-based electronics. Her publication record includes 10 book chapters, 11 patents (3 awarded, 8 pending), 61 journal papers, and over 80 conference papers. Her work has been recognized with over 40 scholarly awards, including the 2018 URSI Young Scientist Award, the 2014 IEEE EMB-S BRAIN Young Investigator Award, the 2012 IEEE MTT Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications, and the 2011 IEEE AP Doctoral Research Award. Prof. Kiourti is active in the IEEE and USNC-URSI, where she serves in elected and appointed roles. Her contributions have gained international reputation and have been featured by TechCrunch, Gizmodo, the Times of India, Australia Network News, and the ALN Magazine, among others.