The 3rd International Online Conference on Biomimetics
The 3rd International Online Conference on Biomimetics
Part of the International Online Conference on Biomimetics series
Event's Timezone: Central European Time
27 July 2026
27 August 2026
18 November 2026
Bioinspired Materials, Bioinspired Design, Bioinspired Robotics, Bioinspired Sensors, Biological Management
The IOCB2026 Conference is now open for submission!
Based on the great success of IOCB2025, we are now welcome everyone to attend this year conference.
Submit your abstract and register for free!
Contact us for more questions: iocb2026@mdpi.com
Welcome from the Chair
S2. Biomimetic Materials—Structures, Surfaces and Interfaces
S3. Bioinspired Robotics and Locomotion
S4. Bioinspired Sensorics, Information Processing and Control
S5. Biological Optimisation and Management
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q1. After I submit an abstract, how can I be the oral or poster presenter?
After the reviewing process, if it is accepted, you feel free to request for the type of presentation, then our Chairs will select oral presenters firstly, if you are not selected as oral presenter, you also have chance to present your poster.
Q2. I have been selected for an oral/poster presentation. When will it take place, and how can I join?
You can check the exact schedule on the 'conference program' available on the official website. Within one week before the conference, you will receive multiple reminders with the login link and session details. Please make sure to check your email regularly.
Q3. My abstract was accepted as a poster presentation. How should the Poster Presentation be?
Poster presentations will be conducted online in the “Flash Poster” format, which includes a 5-minute live presentation to share your screen and quick present your poster, without a Q&A session.
Q4. I cannot find the option or link to upload my oral presentation slides/poster. When and how can I upload it?
Only the submitting author has access to the “upload” function on Sciforum. If you cannot upload your file, please send it along with your Sciforum ID to iocb2026@mdpi.com. Please upload your file to the Sciforum platform earlier before the conference begins.
Q5. Will I receive a Certificate of Participation? How and when will the certificates be issued?
Yes. All participants to the event and attendees to the live session are entitled to a certificate after the conference. Certificates will be available for download in the My Certificates section on Sciforum after conference closing, and you will be notified by email once they are ready.
Q6. My abstract has been accepted but I did not receive a notification for an oral or poster presentation. Can I still present my work?
Due to limited time slots, not all accepted abstracts can be included as oral or poster presentations, which are selected by scientific committee. However, all accepted abstracts are eligible to upload a poster via your author dashboard. All uploaded posters will be displayed in the Poster Gallery section on the conference website from the start of the event, where participants can view and comment during the conference.
Event Chair
Department of the Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Zoological Institute of the University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Stanislav Gorb is Professor and Director at the Zoological Institute of the Kiel University, Germany. He received his PhD degree in zoology and entomology at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev (Ukraine). Gorb was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna (Austria), a research assistant at University of Jena, a group leader at the Max Planck Institutes for Developmental Biology in Tübingen and for Metals Research in Stuttgart (Germany). Gorb’s research focuses on morphology, structure, biomechanics, physiology, and evolution of surface-related functional systems in animals and plants, as well as the development of biologically inspired technological surfaces and systems. He received the Schlossmann Award in Biology and Materials Science in 1995, International Forum Design Gold Award in 2011 and Materialica "Best of" Award in 2011. In 1998, he was the BioFuture Competition winner for his works on biological attachment devices as possible sources for biomimetics. In 2018, he received Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch Medal of German Zoological Society. Gorb is Corresponding member of Academy of the Science and Literature Mainz, Germany (since 2010) and Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Germany (since 2011). Gorb has authored several books, more than 500 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and five patents.
Session Chairs
Dr. Antonio Concilio
CIRA, the Italian Aerospace Research Centre; Via Maiorise, Italia
A.Concilio@cira.it
Qualification • Qualification as Full Professor, ASN (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale – National Scientific Qualification), Aug 8th, 2018 • Engineer, Expert in Aerospace Engineering, CERT’ING, a division of the (Italian) National Engineers’ Council, Jul 1st, 2024 Teaching • Since May 2005 he has held the annual course "Introduction to Intelligent Structures and their Applications", at the PhD School in Industrial Engineering of the University of Naples "Federico II" • Since the II Semester of the AA 2023-2024, he has held the Course "Lab of Mechatronics" at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", master’s in aerospace engineering, 36 hours, 3 credits. Main Books • Shape Memory Alloys Engineering for Aerospace, Structural and Biomedical Applications, 2nd Ed 2021, ISBN: 978-0-12-819264-1, 934 pp. Butterworth-Heinemann, UK • Morphing Wing Technologies for Large Commercial Aircraft and Helicopter Scenario, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-08-100964-2, 978 pp. Butterworth-Heinemann, UK • Shape Memory Alloys Engineering for Aeronautical, Medical and Civil Applications, 1st Ed 2014, ISBN: 978-0-08-099920-3, 448 pp. Butterworth-Heinemann, UK Main Roles in Cooperative Projects • Main author and Italian National coordinator of the project RESUME, (Real-Time Structural Health & Usage Monitoring Systems for UAV) funded within a cooperation between the Israeli and Italian Ministries of Defense, (2021-2022) • Main author and leader of the international technology platform ATED (Adaptive Trailing Edge Device), one of the three related to Morphing in SARISTU (Smart Aircraft Intelligent Structures, 2011-2015) funded within the FP VII, EU • Co-author and National coordinator of the project PON SMART (Methodologies of Design and Production of Intelligent Systems of Structural Monitoring and Adaptive Control of Aircraft and Spacecraft; scientific manager Prof. A. Cutolo) funded within the MIUR National Research Operational Programme (2002-2006) • Main author and European coordinator of the project IDEA PACI (Identification of a Subjective Comfort Index for Aircraft) funded within the FP IV, EU
Prof. Victor Erokhin
Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism, Italian National Council of Researches (IMEM-CNR), Parma, Italy
victor.erokhin@imem.cnr.it
Prof. Dr. Yongmei Zheng
School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, China
zhengym@buaa.edu.cn
Yongmei Zheng, PhD, is a professor at worked at Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beihang University. Research interests are focused on bioinspired surfaces and materials with micro- and nanostructures to control wettability for fog-harvesting, tiny droplet transport, water harvesting, anti-icing/ice-phobicity, etc. There are more than 160 SCI publications included in Nature, Adv. Mater., ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Mater., Small, etc., with 15 Cover stories and above 15000 times cited (from web of science), H index of 57. As published 4 books:“Bio-inspired wettability surfaces: Development in micro- and nanostructures”by Pan Standard Publishing in 2015;“Bioinspired Design of Materials Surfaces”by Elsevier in 2019;“Bioinspired Materials Surfaces: Nature-inspired Micro-/Nanostructures”by Jenny Stanford Publishing in 2024;“Controlled Surface Wetting: From Bioinspireation to Applications”by Wiley‐VCH GmbH in 2025. She is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow Member of An International association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM), Member of Chinese Composite Materials Society (CSCM) and International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE), Editorial board member of Scientific Report in Nature. Section Editor-in-Chief of Biomimetics: Bioinspired surfaces and interfaces. She won an ISBE outstanding contribution award and also an IAAM award Medal. Website: www.polymer.cn/ss/zhengyongmei/en/index.html
Event Committee
Prof. Yang received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto and his bachelor's degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology. His research interests are Vibration and Mechatronics, with a special focus on developing smart materials and dynamic systems for sensors, actuators, and energy harvesters. This interdisciplinary research area requires combining knowledge and skills in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. He has applied for over 30 patents in China and the USA, and authored over 160 academic articles in high-impact journals such as Nature, Nature Comm., Science Robotics, Science Advances, Joule, EES, AM, etc. Prof. Yang is an IEEE Senior Member, recipient of the NSFC Young Scientist Scheme (Type B), and has been recognized as one of the “Top 2% Scientists in the World” by Stanford University.
Prof. Pietro Morasso is senior researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy since 2009. He was awarded a master’s degree with honors in electronic engineering at the University of Genoa (1968) and was hired as post-doc in motor neuroscience at the Psychology Dept. of M.I.T. Cambridge MA USA (1970-78). During his academic career at the University of Genoa he became full Professor in Biomedical Engineering until retirement (2009). He was visiting professor at the University of Bielefeld, Germany (1999) and the Tokio Institute of Technology (2009). He is author of 6 books and over 500 publications with an h-index of 58. His scientific interests include neural control of movement, motor learning, neuromotor rehabilitation, robot-therapy, computational neuroscience, biomimetic humanoid robotics.
School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Jie Deng is a professor of the School of Mechatronics Engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology. He is also a member of the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System at Harbin Institute of Technology. He received his B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from the School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China in 2014. He received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in mechatronics engineering from the School of Mechatronics Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2016 and 2020, respectively. He joined the School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology in 2020, where he has been a Professor since December 2024. He has diverse research interests, but primarily with focuses on applications of piezoelectric materials and bionic robots. Much of his work has been in the fields of piezoelectric motors, ultrasonic motors, micro-nano manipulations, nano-positioning and vibration controls. In addition, he is interested in micro-nano manipulation robots and biomimetic robots. A lot of devices, both piezoelectric devices and robot prototypes have been developed. He has published one monograph and over 80 papers, over 50 papers have been published on international journals (NC, AFM, AS, IEEE TIE, IEEE TRO, IEEE TMECH, MSSP, IJMS, etc). He has applied nearly 30 invention patents, over 10 patents have been granted.
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Andrea Cini obtained the BSc in Aerospace Engineering and the MSc in Aeronautical Engineering, with specialisation in Aircraft Structure, from the University of Pisa respectively in 2003 and 2006. Andrea earned the PhD degree at Cranfield University, UK, in the field of Fatigue and Damage Tolerance, in 2009. Subsequently he developed his research activity in Aerostructures and Fatigue and Damage Tolerance as research Fellow working in both Industry and academia. In July 2019 he joined University Carlos III of Madrid as "Profesor Visitante" where he leads the ASD Lab. His research focuses on innovative aircraft structural configurations, virtual manufacturing, hybrid/electric aircraft, minimum weight optimisation, conceptual design tools, "Non-black metal" composite design, morphing structures, and damage evolution prediction in aerospace materials.
Invited Speaker
Prof. Yang received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto and his bachelor's degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology. His research interests are Vibration and Mechatronics, with a special focus on developing smart materials and dynamic systems for sensors, actuators, and energy harvesters. This interdisciplinary research area requires combining knowledge and skills in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. He has applied for over 30 patents in China and the USA, and authored over 160 academic articles in high-impact journals such as Nature, Nature Comm., Science Robotics, Science Advances, Joule, EES, AM, etc. Prof. Yang is an IEEE Senior Member, recipient of the NSFC Young Scientist Scheme (Type B), and has been recognized as one of the “Top 2% Scientists in the World” by Stanford University.
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
Professor Nikola K Kasabov is a Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Fellow of the INNS College of Fellows, DVF of the Royal Academy of Engineering UK. He has Doctor Honoris Causa from Obuda University, Budapest. He is the Founding Director of KEDRI and Professor Emeritus at the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He is also Visiting Professor at the Institute for Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Dalian University, China. Kasabov is Director of Knowledgeengineering.ai and member of the advisory board of Conscium.com. He is Past President of the Asia Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS) and the International Neural Network Society (INNS). Kasabov holds MSc in computer engineering and PhD in mathematics from TU Sofia. His main research interests are in the areas of neural networks, intelligent information systems, soft computing, neuroinformatics, spiking neural networks. He has published more than 750 publications, highly cited internationally. He has extensive academic experience at various academic and research organisations in Europe and Asia. Kasabov has received a number of awards, among them: INNS Ada Lovelace Meritorious Service Award; NN journal Best Paper Award; APNNA ‘Outstanding Achievements Award’; INNS Gabor Award for ‘Outstanding contributions to engineering applications of neural networks’; EU Marie Curie Fellowship; Medal “Bacho Kiro” and Honorary Citizen of Pavlikeni, Bulgaria; Honorary Member of the Bulgarian-, the Greek- and the Scottish Societies for Computer Science.
Registration
If you are registering several people through the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate processes. Only scholars who have registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 18 November 2026.
Instructions for Authors
IOCB2026 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
1. Deadline for abstract submission: 27 July 2026.
2. Deadline for abstract acceptance notification: 27 August 2026.
Please note:
An abstract acceptance email only confirms that your abstract has been accepted. Oral or poster presentation invitations are determined separately by the conference chairs, and you will receive an additional email with the presentation result.
If you do not have an account, please register at www.sciforum.net. After logging in, submit your abstract using the "Submit Abstract" button on the conference homepage. No template is required.
Abstract Requirements
1. Types of Submissions
- Accepted: Original research abstracts.
- Not accepted: Narrative, scoping, comparative, perspective, opinion, or essay-style reviews.
2. Content Requirements
- Length: 200–500 words.
- Structure: Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusions.
- Language: Clear, publication-ready English.
- Originality: Must be original and unpublished; previously published abstracts will not be considered.
3. Authorship
- The submitting author must ensure all co-authors approve the content.
- Authors may submit multiple abstracts, but only one abstract per author may be selected for an oral presentation.
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
1. Biomimetics Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the Special Issue (to be updated), published in Biomimetics (ISSN: 2313-7673, Impact Factor: 3.9), with a 20% discount on the publication fee.
Please note, if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
2. Proceeding Paper Publication
Authors of accepted abstracts are highly encouraged to submit an extended proceedings paper (ideally 4–8 pages in length) for the conference's dedicated proceedings volume in the Proceedings journal (ISSN: 2504-3900) for free, please submit it after the conference.
Proceedings paper submission deadline: 11 January 2027.
Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Please click HERE to submit your proceeding paper to the Proceedings, and be sure to disclose the conference information in your cover letter or mention the conference name in your submission.
IOCB2026-proceedings-paper template.dot
Publication Notice: Proceedings papers will undergo peer-review procedure. Acceptance at the conference does not ensure final publication.
Event Awards
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 6 awards including Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Poster Award.
Best Oral Presentation Award
Eligibility: Open to all authors selected as oral speakers who have delivered their presentation.
Criteria: Evaluation based on content quality, delivery clarity, audience interaction, and overall impact.
Best Poster Award
Eligibility: Open to all authors who have presented their work through posters.
Criteria: Evaluation based on scientific merit, creativity, and ability to attract and engage viewers.
There will be six winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Sponsors and Partners
Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Mr. Jeff Niu
Ms. Ann Li
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
Email: iocb2026@mdpi.com
