Dr. Sandra Sendra (ssendra@ugr.es) was born in Gandia, Valencia (Spain) on February 27, 1985. She received her degree of Technical Engineering in Telecommunications in 2007. She received her M.Sc. of Electronic Systems Engineering in 2009 and her Ph.D. in electronic engineering (Dr. Ing.) in 2013. Currently, she is assistant professor at the University of Granada (Spain). She is Cisco Certified Network Associate Instructor since 2009 and HP-ATA instructor since 2015. She is author or co-author of more than 120 papers in SCI journals, peer-reviewed conferences proceedings, books and international book chapters. She is editor-in-chief of the international journal "WSEAS Transaction on Communications" since 2012, guest editor several SI in International Journals related to underwater communications, sensors and actuator networks. She has been the co-editor of 5 conference proceedings and associate editor in 4 international journals. She has been involved in more than 140 Program and organization committees of international conferences until 2019. She has been the general chair (or co-chair) of 3 International conferences. She has been session chair in 12 international conferences. She has participated in 16 research projects. She is IEEE Member. Her research interests, but no limited, include saving energy techniques in electronic circuits, sensor deployment, WSN, UWSN and the application of these technologies for environmental monitoring.

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Priv.-Doz. Dr. Marco Deluca received a Master in Chemical Engineering from the University of Trieste (Italy) and a Ph. D. in Materials Science from Kyoto Institute of Technology (Japan). He obtained in 2016 the Habilitation (venia docendi) in Materials Science from the Montanuniversität Leoben (Leoben, Austria). The main theme of his scientific career is the study of structure-property relationships in functional oxide materials, in particular ceramics for energy harvesting, energy storage and gas sensing applications. He is a member of the IEEE Ferroelectrics Standing Committee and of the Board of Directors of the Austrian Ceramic Society. He authored/co-authored more than 70 refereed publications in journals and conferences and two book chapters, and gave more than 20 invited presentations to international conferences and workshops. His h-index is 20. Marco Deluca is also Lecturer in the Materials Science Department of the Montanuniversität Leoben (Leoben, Austria).