Dr. Giovanna Marrazza is the Editor-in-Chief of Biosensors, an open access journal devoted to studies related to the science and technology of biosensors and biosensing. Dr. Giovanna Marrazza has served as Associate Professor in Analytical Chemistry at Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff” of the University of Florence since 2001 and is currently President of the study course for the Chemistry degree at this University. She is a distinguished Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy “Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine & Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and member of the steering board of Italian Sensors and Microsystems Group (AISEM). Marrazza’s research focuses on electrochemical, piezoelectric, and optical nano(bio)sensors based on enzymes, antibodies, bacteria, DNA, molecularly imprinted polymers, and aptamers. Her research is focused on new biosensing principles containing nanomaterials and modified interfaces, design procedures suitable for biosensor devices as flow injection analysis, microflow systems, thick-film technology, and nanodispensing technologies. She has co-authored more than 130 papers in leading international journals in addition to numerous book chapters.

Tombelli, Sara graduated in Chemistry at the University of Florence, Italy, in 1996. She received the PhD in Environmental Sciences with full marks in 2001 at the Department of Chemistry (Florence, Italy). She is now senior researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics (IFAC-CNR) in Florence, Italy. Her research activity is focused on analytical chemistry, biosensor development and surface modifications with bio-molecules, such as antibodies, enzymes, aptamers and nucleic acid probes. She has also experience in intracellular nanosensors and nanoparticle manipulation. On the above topics she has contributed more than 130 publications on international refereed journals, books and conference proceedings (H-index=36, Scopus). She participated in several European Projects (Nanodem, Hemospec, Careman, Gapogrowth) and in other national and international projects. She is now research unit scientific leader in the national project PRIN “Development of novel DNA-based analytical platforms for the rapid, point-of-use quantification of multiple hidden allergens in food samples”. She has been reviewer and referee for the evaluation of international projects such as proposals under the ERC Ideas Specific Programme and the FET programme. She received the National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) as full and associate professor in Analytical Chemistry (Italian Ministry for Research).

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M. Teresa Fernández Abedul received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1995 at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She was working as Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at this University since 2002, and as Full Professor since 2019. She is co-author of more than 80 JCR indexed articles, 30 books chapters and is editor of the book “Laboratory Methods in Dynamic Electroanalysis” (Elsevier, 2020). She has been co-advisor of 9 PhD Thesis, 11 Master Thesis (and 8 PhD Research Seminars) as well as 13 Degree Thesis and other research works. Her current research interests are the development of low-cost electroanalytical (bio)devices using innovative approaches (e.g. paper-based assays) and the integration of electrochemistry with bioassays (e.g. DNA isothermal amplification) for interesting applications.

Sergey Shleev received his PhD in biochemistry from A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, in 2001. After that, he held various positions at Swedish Universities (Lund and Malm;) until 2011, when he became an Associate Professor in biomedical technology at Malmö University, Sweden. During the same year he also habilitated at the Institute of Biochemistry, Russia. From 2013 he is a Professor in biomedical technology at Malmö University. His main scientific and technological interests are studies of complex redox enzymes and their applications in bioelectronics operating in vivo and ex vivo. Due to his interest in advanced biomedical analysis and technology, especially non-invasive devices including wearables, in 2017 he established a private Swedish company, APTUSENS AB (www.aptusens.com), which provides advanced, combined biomedical and IT services to fitness-oriented and health-conscious individuals, as well as private and public organizations. His current publication record includes 5 book chapters, 3 monographs, 14 review papers, 116 research articles, and 9 patents/patent applications (h-index: 46; i10-index: 110; Google Scholar Citations, July 2020).

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Benoît Piro, 47 y.o., H-factor 35, 3500+ citations, is professor in Chemistry, Université de Paris, France, laboratory ITODYS associated to CNRS. He developed biosensors based on original electrochemical transduction schemes such as "reagentless" and "signal-on", directed to DNA, miRNA, proteins, peptides, antibodies, organic pollutants... and participated to their economic valorization (patents, private contracts). Since 2010, he developed novel activities related to printed organic electronics, in particular electrolyte-gated OFET adapted to work in aqueous media, which paves the way for applications in the medical and environmental fields. He is member of the French Printed Organic Electronics Association.

bioelectrochemistry; biosensors; bioelectronics; transistor; nanomaterials

Associate professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, since 2014. The research activity of Prof. Micheli is focalized on the development of disposable electrochemical tools using bio/immunosensors and interference-free biosensors, based on screen printed electrodes (SPEs) for the determination of several analyte in food, in clinical and cultural heritage fields, using for their validation spectrophotometric and chromatographic methods. She is involved in the development of new analytical methods for integrated diagnostics and application of non-invasive protocols to the study of the materials of Cultural Heritage, with particular reference to paper and wood artworks.

electrochemical immuno/biosensors for analytical application; screen printed electrode; flow injection analysis; chromatography; application of electrochemical sensors in food; clinical and cultural heritage analysis

Raffaele Velotta graduated (M.Sc.) at University of Naples in 1987 and earned his PhD in 1992 at the same university. He joined the Physics Department of University of Naples in 1995 as lecturer becoming full professor in 2015. In 2000 he visited the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College to carry out research on high-order harmonic generation from aligned molecules. For several years his research concerned the ultrashort laser pulses interaction with molecules and the generation of attosecond pulses. Subsequently, he turned his interests to biosensing with particular attention to QCM functionalized by an innovative technique based on the UV activation of antibodies (PIT, Photochemical Immobilization Technique). In recent years, such a surface functionalization technique has shown its effectiveness even when applied to gold nanoparticles as well as to nanostructured surfaces paving the way to the realization of cost-effective plasmonic immunosensors for use in food-safety, environmental monitoring and medical diagnostics. Moreover, the application of PIT to gold-coated magnetic nanoparticles lends itself as a powerful tool for analyte separation in complex matrices.

immunosensors; surface plasmon resonance (SPR); localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR); magnetic biosensors

Since 1986 he studied new bioanalytical methods by means of electrochemical biosensors in food, clinical and environmental analysis. Senior researcher at the two biggest research institutes in Italy, ENEA "Italian Institute of sustainable development" and then at CNR "Italian National Council", he taught, as an adjunct professor, Environmental Bioanalytical Chemistry in several Italian Universities and research Institutes. Visiting scientist in Paris and Nice (FR), Stuttgart and Braunschweig (DE), Lund (SE), Izmir (TR), Ceske Budejovice (CZ), Karaikudi (IN). He was chairman or member of the scientific committee of international conferences on biosensors, From 2006 he was an elected member of the executive committee then (2015-2018) he was Vice-president of IAEAC "International Association on Environmental Analytical Chemistry" from 2015 to 2018. He is now the Editor in chief of the International Journal on Environmental Analytical chemistry of Taylor and Francis and a member of the editorial boards of two MDPI Journals: Sensors and Biosensors.

electrochemistry; environmental analytical chemistry; biosensors; sensors and sensing; continuous flow monitoring; immobilization techniques; enzyme inhibitors; lab on a chip; nanostructured electrodes; screen-printed electrodes; herbicides; pesticides

Dr. Chan (KAC) have more than 20 years research experience in developing novel applications of FTIR and Raman spectroscopic imaging for studying pharmaceutical systems such as tablet compaction, dissolution and drug polymorphism and biological systems such as skin tissues and live cells. He has developed with Prof. Kazarian an FTIR imaging method for studying live cells in a microfluidic device by solving the long standing chromatic and spherical imaging aberrations when imaging through a liquid flowcell in transmission mode. This has significantly improved the imaging quality when imaging live cells in a flowcell.

Laszlo B. Kish is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Texas A&M University. His main research interests are unidentified problems, and the laws, limits and applications of stochastic fluctuations (noise), and physical informatics. The applications include several ones of his own inventions, including: fluctuation-enhanced sensing; noise-based logic; unconditionally secure communications with the KLJN scheme; physical communications without emitted signals; unconditionally secure computers, hardware, credit/debit cards and physical unclonable functions (PUF). He was the recipient of the Benzelius Prize of the Royal Society of Science of Sweden (2001); the Doctor of Science (Physics) title from the Hungarian Academy of Science (2001); Honorary Doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden (2011); Honorary Doctorate from University of Szeged, Hungary (2012); the Honorary Professor (2013-2016) and the Distinguished Guest Professor (2015-2018) titles from Hunan University, China; and the Medal of Honor from the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland (2017). Up to now (2020), he has 400+ publications http://noise.ece.tamu.edu/publist.pdf . He founded the journal Fluctuation and Noise Letters (Editor-in-Chief: 2001-2008; currently: Honorary Editor); the conference series Unsolved Problems of Noise (1996 - present); and SPIE's “Fluctuations and Noise Symposium” series (Symposium Chair: 2003 - Santa Fe, 2004 - Canary Islands, and 2005- Austin, TX); and Co-Chaired the "Hot Topics of Physical Informatics" conference (2013, Changsha).

physical informatics; sensors; unconditional security;nanomaterials/structures; aging/degradation; percolation; fluctuation-enhanced sensing; noise-based computation; thermal demons/engines

Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), is leading a research team working on Integrated Devices and Intelligent Diagnostics. After finishing her PhD under the supervising of Prof Justin Gooding in 2006 at UNSW, Liu conducted her postdoctoral research at CSIRO and UNSW, respectively before she was appointed as an Associate Professor at Central China Normal University in 2009. In 2015 Liu moved back to Australia and worked at Macquarie University before she was awarded the prestigious Australia Research Council. Future Fellow at Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), is leading a research team working on Integrated Devices and Intelligent Diagnostics. After finishing her PhD under the supervising of Prof Justin Gooding in 2006 at UNSW, Liu conducted her postdoctoral research at CSIRO and UNSW, respectively before she was appointed as an Associate Professor at Central China Normal University in 2009. In 2015 Liu moved back to Australia and worked at Macquarie University before she was awarded the prestigious Australia Research Council Future Fellowship in 2016. Liu is recognised for her interdisciplinary and translational research with close end-user engagement in the area of biosensors, point-of-care diagnostics, intelligent nanoparticles, and medical devices. She worked in AgaMatrix Inc. for 4 years as a R&D Manager, China, and then continues her industry engagement through a strong record of partnering with biomedical firms such as AstraZeneca, AgaMatrix Inc, and Regeneus Ltd. She is a co-founder at Bio-Sens Tech Pty Ltd. Liu has published 11 patents, 1 book chapter and 92 journal papers. Among her many prestigious awards, she received the Rising Star Award by Australian Association of Chinese Biomedical Scientists in 2018 and was shortlisted by Australian Georgina Sweet Award for women in quantitative biomedical science (2016).

biosensors; point-of-care diagnostics; microfluidic-paper-based analytical devices µPADs); intelligent nanoparticles; medical devices

Paolo Bollella is a Research Assistant Professor at Clarkson University in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science since September 2019. He received his MSc in Analytical Chemistry in 2014 at the Faculty of Science of Sapienza University of Rome. He started his PhD studies in Pharmaceutical Science with speciality in Electroanalytical Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Riccarda Antiochia at the Department of Chemistry and Drug Technologies. During this period, he moved for at least two years to the Division of Biochemistry and Structural Biology – Department of Chemistry at Lund University in Sweden. In this department, he joined to the bioelectrochemistry laboratory led by Prof. Lo Gorton, working on the development of new nanostructuration approaches to study the electron transfer between redox enzymes and solid electrodes for applications into carbohydrate amperometric biosensors and enzymatic fuel cells. After his PhD, he was involved in a collaboration with Prof. Anthony E.G. Cass (Imperial College) about the modification of microneedle electrode array for non-invasive detection of different biomarkers (e.g., glucose, lactate etc.). In August 2018, he joined the Department of Analytical Chemistry at Åbo Akademi in Turku (Finland) with a Johan Gadolin PostDoc fellowship awarded from the board of Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Center. In October 2018, he joined the group of “Bioelectronics & Bionanotechnology” led by Prof. Evgeny Katz. In March 2019, he was awarded with the Minerva Prize for the Scientific Research – Merit Mention for the achievements obtained during his doctoral thesis based on the study of “Mediated/Direct Electron Transfer of Redox Protein for Biosensors and Biofuel Cells Applications. He is author of 48 papers on peer-reviewed international journals (Hirsh-index 14), 3 book chapters, 1 student book, 2 proceedings and almost 60 oral or poster contributions to national and international conferences.

Professor Michael Thompson obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Wales, UK and his PhD in analytical chemistry from McMaster University. Following a period as Science Research Council PDF at Swansea University he was appointed Lecturer in Instrumental Analysis at Loughborough University. He then moved to the University of Toronto where he is now Professor of Bioanalytical Chemistry. He has held a number of distinguished research posts including the Leverhulme Fellowship at the University of Durham and the Science Foundation Ireland E.T.S Walton Research Fellowship at the Tyndall National Institute, Cork City. He is recognized internationally for his pioneering work over many years in the area of research into new biosensor technologies and the surface chemistry of biochemical and biological entities. He has made major contributions to the label-free detection of biological macromolecule interactions and surface behavior of cells using ultra high frequency acoustic wave physics. He has also pioneered the development of anti-fouling surface modification, in particular anti-thrombogenic and anti-microbial adhesion materials. Thompson has served on the Editorial Boards of a number of major international journals including Analytical Chemistry, The Analyst, Talanta, Analytica Chimica Acta and Biosensors and Bioelectronics. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the monograph series “Detection Science” for the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. He has been awarded many prestigious international prizes for his research including The Robert Boyle Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, E.W.R. Steacie Award of the Chemical Society of Canada, the Theophilus Redwood Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Fisher Scientific Award in Analytical Chemistry of the Chemical Society of Canada. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1999.

biosensor technology; acoustic wave detection; chemical sensors; biocompatibility; surface chemistry and analysis

Dr. Petr Skladal is Associated Professor and Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno. He received his Ph.D. in the field of amperometric biosensors in 1992. After completing research stays (1991, 1993) at the University of Florence, Italy, with Marco Mascini, he continued to investigate biosensors at Masaryk University. He currently also heads the Nanobiotechnology Research Group at the Central European Institute of Technology in Brno. His research is focused on enzyme and immunochemical biosensors using electrochemical and piezoelectric transducers, affinity kinetics with surface plasmon resonance systems, nanocantilever-based sensing and applications of atomic force microscopy in life sciences. He published 160 peer reviewed papers with 5000 citations, H-index 38 (WoS).

immunosensors; enzyme electrodes; piezoelectric sensors; atomic force microscopy; nanoparticles; detection of pathogens; bioelectronic tongues

Daniela Uberti is a Professor of Pharmacology, at the Medical School, University of Brescia. She acquired her degree in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology, at University of Milan and PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Brescia. She heads a REDOX Biology laboratory involved in the identification, development and validation of novel Biomarkers in medical science and food science. For more than 20 years she has been focused on the identification of a specific blood based profile in Alzheimer’s disease. She is also involved in the development of screen-printed biosensor using nanostructure technology for early biomarker detection. Further, recently she is approaching the use of electrochemical biosensor to study proteins electrochemical properties. She is a co-author of more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, and 3 patents all related to diagnostic tools for Alzheimer’s disease.

biomarker development; bioassay analytical and clinical validation; electrochemical biosensors; sensors for cell culture monitoring

Sam Adeloju is a Professor of Chemistry and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Science at Charles Sturt University, Albury (NSW), Australia and Editor-in-Chief of the Chemistry Section of the Applied Sciences Journal (MDPI). He has made original and innovative contributions to the design, fabrication, and characterization of conducting polymers, biosensors, nanobiosensors, nanomaterials and microbial fuel cells. Sam’s research activities is focused on the development and utilization of advances in bioanalytical and biological chemistry coupled with nanotechnology for fabrication of novel advanced nanodevices and nanoanalytical systems, including nanobiosensors, medical diagnostics and microbial fuel cells. In particular, he has made significant contributions to the development of biosensors and nanobiosensors for clinical, environmental and food analyses, as well as in the development of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) for power generation from wastewaters. He has published extensively in international journals, books and proceedings. He was awarded the Royal Australia Chemical Institute (RACI) awards for Applied Research Medal (2009), R.H. Stokes Medal for Electrochemistry (2011), Doreen Clark Medal for Analytical Chemistry (2013) and Citation Award for Excellence in Leadership and Service (2017). Sam is also an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Sensors (Chemical Sensors), member of the International Advisory Board for Sci Journal (MDPI), member of the Editorial Board for Biosensors (MDPI), and other international journals. He has been appointed on several occasions as a visiting professor of chemistry in Sweden, UK, Tasmania, China, and Malaysia.

nanobiosensors; nanomaterials; conducting polymers; electroanalytical chemistry; environmental chemistry; microbial fuel cells

Present Position: Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry at the Chemical and Technology Department, University of Rome Tor Vergata. Research Activity: 33 chapters on books, 201 papers on international and national scientific journals, 4 patents, 36 proceedings, 2 videos, more than 300 oral and poster presentations at scientific meetings. H-index 50, with 6973 citations (Scopus, May 2020). Responsible of projects funded by CNR on Biotechnology, by the Ministero della Salute, Ministero degli Esteri and by MIUR (COFIN 2003, PRIN 2005, 2007, 2009, 2015, 2017) and by private companies (Menarini Diagnostic Division, Radim, Etatron, Systea). In the recent years she has been involved, in the frame of projects funded by the European Community, in the development of immunosensors and interference-free biosensors based on screen printed electrodes (SPEs), also modified with nanomaterials, for the development of new analytical methods and of microsensors and array of electrochemical sensors in the field of environmental, clinical and food analysis. Her latest research concerns the realization of paper-based "all-in-one" electrochemical devices and wearable devices. Editor of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, the principal international journal devoted to research, design, development and application of biosensors and bioelectronics (IF2018: 9.518), member of the Editorial Board of Biosensors, MDPI since 2017, and editor of a special issue of Sensors titled “Paper-based sensors” and Reviewer for 30 International scientific journals.

electrochemical immunosensors; screen-printed sensors; glucose biosensor; flow systems; in vivo biosensors; nanomaterial-based (bio)sensors; (bio)sensors applied in biomedical and agri-food sectors

Igor Medintz received his Ph.D. in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from the City University of New York in 1998. He is currently the Navy’s Senior Scientist for biosensors and biomaterials at the Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. His research is focused on creating light harvesting systems with DNA technology, active DNA nanostructures, and understanding biological activity at a nanoparticle interface.