Registration Fees (in Euros)

The registration fee includes attendance of all conference sessions, morning/afternoon coffee breaks and lunches, participation in the conference dinner on the 28th of September, conference bag and program book. Other dinners are not included and are left at the convenience of attendees.

To register later than 7 September 2017 or for onsite registration, please contact the Conference Secretariat.

* First and last authors of articles published in 2014 or later will be granted a discount.
** Reviewers who provided timely review reports in 2014 or later will be granted a discount.
*** Academics who provided the special rate code will be granted a discount.

 Cancellation Policy

Participation to the conference is considered final only once the registration fees have been paid. The number of participants is limited, once the number of paid registrations reaches the maximum number of participants, unpaid registrations will be cancelled.

The Platinum Sponsor, Sensors, offers two awards to our participants at the conference:

1. Best Poster Award (1): 800€.
2. Best Oral Presentation Award (1): 800€

The nominations will be assessed by the Organizing Committee.

We are glad to inform you that a Cocktail Dinner will be held on the 28th of September at Agüelo013, a cutting-edge restaurant specialized in Mediterranean cuisine which, in addition to its emblematic location in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona and its picturesque dining rooms, will make your evening at the restaurant an experience to remember. 

Agüelo013 is located at Carrer Avinyó 37, a street at the heart of the Gothic Quarter and only a couple of minutes away from the must-see avenue Las Ramblas. The restaurant is easily reached from the Conference Venue either by taxi or by Metro. If you were to choose the second option, the easiest way to get there is by taking the Metro Line L3 at Palau Reial Station and leave at Drassaness Metro Station after 9 stops.

Welcome Message by the Conference Chair Prof. Dr. Arben Merkoçi.

Attendees registering on  the first day of the event.

Speakers presented their research during the three-day event.

Audience of the 5th International Symposium on Sensor Science.

Round of questions and answers.

Time for discussion during the coffee break.

Conference's Sponsor Zimmer & Peacock presenting their products at the event.

Booth of the conference sponsoring journal Sensors.

Poster Session.

Time for discussion during the lunch break.

Attendees of the Conference Dinner.

Best Poster Awardee Johanna Pila, Conference Chair Arben Merkoçi and Conference Organizers Lin Li
and Lucia Russo.

Best Oral Presentation Awardees Paul Rawiel and Larisa Florea along with Conference Chair Arben Merkoçi
and Conference Organizers Lin Li and Lucia Russo.

The Conference Team would like to thank all the attendees for coming to this three-day event. We hope 
to see you soon in the next edition of I3S!

You can now download the conference program and the abstract book of the 5th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S 2017), Barcelona (last update September, 26th).

Session Start

Wednesday 27 September 2017: 08:30 - 10:15 Check-in / 10:15 - 12:45 / 14:00 - 18:00
Thursday 28 September 2017: 08:30 - 13:00 / 14:00 - 18:15 / Conference Dinner: 20:30
Friday 29 September 2017: 08:30 - 12:45 / 13:45 - 18:00

Detailed Program

Day 1: Wednesday 27 September 2017

08:30 – 10:15 Check-in
10:15 – 10:30 Program Overview and Introduction of Session Chairs – Arben Merkoci

10:30 – 12:45 Session 1: Biosensors (Part 1)
Session Chair: Evgeny Katz

10:30 – 11:15 Jose M. Pingarrón "Improving Cancer Outcomes Through Electrochemical Biosensing of Early Diagnosis/Prognosis Biomarkers in Human Biopsies"
11:15 – 11:45 Lital Alfonta "Genetically Engineering of Enzymes and Electrode Modifications for Biosensing Applications"
11:45 – 12:15 Michael J. Schöning "Label-Free DNA Detection with Capacitive Field-Effect Devices—Challenges and Opportunities"
12:15 – 12:30 Manel del Valle “Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for TNT Analogues. Development of Electrochemical TNT Biosensors”
12:30 – 12:45 So Yamamoto “Redox Cycling Realized in Paper-based Electrochemical Biosensor for highly-selective Detection of Potassium Ferrocyanide in the presence of Ascorbic Acid”

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

14:00–18:00 Session 2: Chemosensors
Session Chair: Vladimir M. Mirsky

14:00 – 14:45 Kenneth S. Suslick "The optoelectronic nose"
14:45 – 15:00 Fabio Di Francesco "Disposable sensors for monitoring chronic wounds"
15:00 – 15:15 Irene Lara-Ibeas "Conception and development of microfabricated elements for microfluidic analytical devices"
15:15 – 15:30 Andrea Gaiardo "Silicon carbide: a gas sensing material for selective detection of SO2"
15:30 – 15:45 Luigi Zeni "SPR Chemosensors based on D-shaped POFs and MIPs: Investigation on optimal thickness of the buffer layer"

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 – 16:45 Thomas Hirsch "Two-dimensional carbon nanomaterials for electrochemical and plasmonic sensing applications"
16:45 – 17:00 Matteo Valt "Room Temperature Chemoresistive Gas Sensor Based On Organic-Functionalized Graphene Oxide"
17:00 – 17:30 Vladimir M. Mirsky "Detection of single sub-micrometer objects of biological or technical origin using wide field surface plasmon microscopy"
17:30 – 18:00 Radislav A. Potytailo "High value chemosensors in the era of industrial internet: Innovations in materials, transducers, and data analytics"

Day 2: Thursday 28 September 2017

08:30 – 13:00 Session 3. Bio-Inspired and Bio-based Strategies for Sensing and Fluidics
Chair: Dermot Diamond

08:30 – 09:15 Jaap den Toonder “Bio-inspired and Bio-based Strategies for Sensing and Fluidics”
09:15 – 09:30 Larisa Florea “Stimuli-Controlled Manipulation of Synthetic Micrometre-Sized Vehicles for Bio-inspired Fluidics”
09:30 – 10:00 Francisco Javier Andrade “Potentiometry, nanostructured materials and the emergence of paradigm-shifting analytical platforms”

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:00 Luis Fermín Capitán-Vallvey “Coupling sensing and imaging devices: towards a complete handheld analytical system”
11:00 – 11:15 Margaret McCaul “Wearable Sensor for Real-Time monitoring of Electrolytes in Sweat”
11:15 – 11:45 Huangxian Ju “In Situ Biosensing of Cancer-Related Cellular Biomolecules”
11:45 – 12:00 Augusto Márquez “Portable and Miniaturized Lab on a Chip with Regenerable Membrane for Sanitary Emergencies”
12:00 – 12:15 Shadi Karimi “Microfluidic enabled Portable ABO reverse typing sensor”
12:15 – 12:30 Maciej Cieplak “Semi-Covalent Imprinting for Selective Protein Sensing at a Femtomolar Concentration Level”
12:30 – 13:00 Dermot Diamond “Stimuli-Responsive Materials and Biomimetic Fluidics: Fundamental Building Blocks of Chemical Sensing Platforms with Futuristic Capabilities”

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 – 18:15 Session 1: Biosensors (Part 2)
Session Chair: Evgeny Katz

14:00 – 14:45 Wolfgang Schuhmann "From Reagentless Biosensors to Biofuel Cells and Self-Powered Bioelectrochemical Devices"
14:45 – 15:15 Marcos Pita "ATP Synthesis and Biosensing Coupled to the Electroenzymatic Activity of a Hydrogenase on an Electrode/Biomimetic Membrane Interface"
15:15 – 15:45 Dmitry Kolpashchikov "Nucleic Acid Analysis Using Multifunctional Hybridization Sensors"
15:45 – 16:00 Riccarda Antiochia “A comparative study between Hydrogen Peroxide Amperometric Biosensors based on different Peroxidases wired by Os-polymer: applications in water, milk and human urine”
16:00 – 16:15 Yulia Gerasimova “Split Deoxyribozyme Sensors for Pathogen Detection”

16:15 – 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 – 17:00 Yuri Arutyunov “The Development of the "Sleeping Gene" Type Biosensor as a Method to Increase the Efficiency of the Magnetocardiograph Performance”
17:00 – 17:15 Denise Molinnus “Development of a Biosensor for the Detection of Acetoin during Wine Fermentation”
17:15 – 17:30 Thomas Knieling “Printed and Flexible Electrochemical Lactate Sensors for Wearable Applications”
17:30 – 17:45 Mehmet Özsöz “Electrochemical and SERS Based Biosensors for Cancer Biomarkers Detection”
17:45 – 18:15 Evgeny Katz "Integration of Biomolecular Sensing, Logic Processing of the Signals and Actuation"

20:30 Conference Dinner

Day 3: Friday 29 September 2017

08:30 – 12:45 Session 4: Sensors for Structures
Chair: Jandro L. Abot

08:30 – 09:15 Thomas Schumacher "Development of Self-Sensing Carbon Nanotube-based Composites for Civil Infrastructure Applications"
09:15 – 09:45 Tommy Chan "Recent Advances in Using Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring for Civil Structures"
09:45 – 10:15 Dirk Lehmhus "Linking Additive Manufacturing and Sensor Integration: A Direct Path towards Structural Electronics?"

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:15 Christophe Delebarre "Innovative Aeronautical Structural Health Monitoring Ultrasonic Sensor: from Autonomy To High Sensibility"
11:15 – 11:30 Miguel Vicente "A Novel Laser- and Video-Based Displacement Measurement System to Monitor Vertical Deflections in Bridges"
11:30 – 11:45 Guido Luzi "Microwave sensors to monitor the displacement of civil structures: recent experimental campaigns and last issues towards advanced sensors"
11:45 – 12:00 David Valentín "Feasibility to detect natural frequencies of hydraulic turbines under operation using strain gauges"
12:00 – 12:15 Mónica Egusquiza "Optimized use of sensors to detect critical full load instability in Large Hydraulic Turbines"
12:15 – 12:45 Jandro L. Abot "Structural Health Monitoring Using Carbon Nanotube Yarns: Sensing Concept and Applications in Composites"

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch and Poster Session

13:45 – 18:00 Session 5. Sensors Applications
Chair: Stefano Mariani

13:45 – 14:30 Maurizio Porfiri "Multiphysics Modeling Ionic Polymer Metal Composites, with Application in Underwater Sensing"
14:30 – 15:00 Eleni Chatzi "A Monitoring Approach to Smart Infrastructure Management"
15:00 – 15:15 Yi Yang “Performance Analysis of LIDAR Assist Spatial Sensing for the Visually Impaired”
15:15 – 15:30 Mariana Medina Sánchez “Lab-in-a-tube, biosensors, cell detection, molecule detection”
15:30 – 15:45 Abraham Mejia-Aguilar “Landslide monitoring with multi-sensor and temporal scale approaches: a test site in alpine environment”
15:45 – 16:00 Louis McCarthy “Sensor Excitation and Measurement Techniques for CNT Thin Film Sensors”

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 16:45 Stefano Mariani "Health monitoring of composite structures via MEMS sensor networks: numerical and experimental results"
16:45 – 17:00 Marco Messina “Design and Optimization of a MEMS-based Piezoresistive Accelerometer for Head Injuries Monitoring: A Computational Analysis”
17:00 – 17:15 Paul Rawiel “Integration and Synchronization of different sensors for the positioning of moving vehicles”
17:15 – 17:30 Larysa Baraban “Nanosensors for Monitoring Bacterial Growth Kinetics and Response to Antibiotics”
17:30 – 17:45 Diego Rivera “Protecting Sensors in an IoT Environment by Modelling Communications as Resources”

17:45 – 18:00 Closing Remarks & Awards Ceremony