Micromachines Webinar | Biosensors for Smart Farming: From Microdevices to Field Applications
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4th Micromachines Webinar
Biosensors for Smart Farming: From Microdevices to Field Applications
It is my pleasure to announce the webinar “Biosensors for Smart Farming: From Microdevices to Field Applications”. Agriculture is currently undergoing its most significant and fast transformation. As we stand at the intersection of traditional wisdom and cutting-edge technology, precision agriculture offers us the tools to produce high-standard products with less cost and waste. Technological advances will also guarantee food safety and quality.
I invite you to join us as we explore how data-driven insights are reshaping the fields of tomorrow. Whether you are a producer, a technologist, or an industry partner, this session is designed to provide you with a roadmap for the digital future of farming.
Date: 4 February 2026
Time: 11:00 am CET | 6:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 854 9429 2169
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Chiara Sanmartin
1. Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
2. Interdepartmental Research Centre “Nutraceuticals and Food for Health”, University of Pisa, 56127 Pisa, Italy
3. Interdepartmental Research Centre “Pisa Neuroscience”, University of Pisa, 56124 Pisa, Italy;
Dr. Chiara Sanmartin is a Food Biotechnology graduate with a PhD in Food Science. She is an Associate Professor of Food Science and Technology at the University of Pisa (Italy), Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (DiSAAA-a). She is also Vice Chair of the Master’s Degree Programs in Food Biosafety and Quality and in Plant and Microbial Biotechnology.
Her research interests include the following:
- Food processing and preservation technologies: Optimization of conventional and emerging processing techniques, with particular attention to process monitoring, quality control, and integration of innovative analytical tools.
- Food characterization and advanced analytical approaches: Physicochemical and sensory characterization of agri-food products, including the use of instrumental and data-driven methods to support quality assessment and decision-making.
- Applications of sensing and smart technologies in food systems: Contribution to the development and application of sensor-based approaches for food quality, safety, and sustainability evaluation along the agri-food chain.
Prof. Andrea Bellincontro
Department for Innovation of Biological, Agrofood and Forest Systems (DIBAF), University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy;
Prof. Andrea Bellincontro is an Agricultural Engineering graduate with a PhD in Agricultural & Environmental Sciences. He is an Associate Professor in Food Science and Technology at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy.
His research interests related to the topic of the organized webinar include the application of sensors and non-destructive technologies, both commercially available and prototypes, to investigate quality attributes and determine food products (mainly fruits and vegetables), as well as to monitor their processing and elaboration procedures.
In particular, his research interests are focused on the application and investigation of optically characterized sensors, like Vis–NIR, NIR, and MIR spectroscopy, aimed at detecting internal attributes based on the vibrational response of molecules, or on other physical characteristics, like in the case of E-Nose devices that detect the volatile patterns or aroma profiles of analyzed food matrices.
Dr. Alessandro Tonacci
Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council of Italy (IFC-CNR), 56124 Pisa, Italy;
Alessandro Tonacci, PhD, is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Clinical Physiology of the National Research Council of Italy (IFC-CNR). He holds a master's degree in Biomedical Engineering (2010) and was awarded a PhD in Automation, Robotics and Bioengineering from the University of Pisa (2015). He also holds a level II master’s in “Machine learning and big data in precision medicine and biomedical research” (University of Padua, 2021). Since 2011, he has worked at the IFC-CNR, where, from 2020, he has served as a full-time researcher and, from 2023, a Senior Researcher. He is involved in studying sensory aspects of health and diseases with a technological perspective, using intelligent, minimally obtrusive systems for acquiring and analyzing biomedical variables. He is currently a member of the Consumer Technology Society of the IEEE, where he also serves as a Chair for the “Consumer Healthcare and Wellbeing” Technical Committee.
Biosensors for Biomedical and Environmental Applications, Third Edition
Edited by Dr. Antonella Battisti
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026
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