Alberto J. Palma was born in 1968 in Granada (Spain). He received his B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in physics in 1991 and his Ph.D. degree in 1995 from the University of Granada, Granada, Spain. He is currently a full professor at the University of Granada in the Department of Electronics and Computer Technology. Since 1992, he has been working on the trapping of carriers in different electronic devices (diodes and MOS transistors), including the characterization and simulation of capture cross sections, random telegraph noise, and generation-recombination noise in devices. Since 2000, in the interdisciplinary group ECsens, his current research interests are devoted to the design, development, and fabrication of sensors and portable electronic instrumentation for environmental, biomedical, and food analysis and monitoring. Recently, he has been working on printing sensors on flexible substrates with processing electronics using inkjet and screen-printing technologies.
