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We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Sensors 2023 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Wenbo Peng.
Dr. Wenbo Peng is an Associate Professor at the School of Microelectronics, Xi’an Jiaotong University. Dr. Peng’s research interests mainly focus on advanced low-dimensional piezoelectric semiconductor materials, devices and physics, contact electrification, triboelectric electronics and optoelectronics, and novel intelligent functional sensors. Dr. Peng received his PhD in 2016 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising over 50 publications in peerreviewed international journals and over 2400 citations.
Dr. Peng’s Hirsch index is 26. He is clearly a rising star in the field of sensors. As a single applicant, Dr. Peng has secured funding of more than EUR 200,000 since 2017. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Peng on his outstanding achievements.
As the awardee, Dr. Peng will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000 and an electronic certificate.
We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation, and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.
Sensors 2023 Young Investigator Evaluation Committee
Sensors 2023 Young Investigator Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Wenbo Peng
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Award Committee
Prof. Vittorio Passaro
Chairman
Politecnico di Bari
Prof. Marco Iosa
Department of Psychology, University Sapienza of Rome
Prof. Carmine Serio
Prof. Dr. Barry Lavine
Dr. Kit Yan Chan
Curtin University
Dr. Luca De Marchi
University of Bologna
Winner
Wenzhuo Wu
Purdue University
Award Committee
Prof. Vittorio Passaro
Chairman
Politecnico di Bari
Prof. Dr. Marcin Woźniak
Silesian University of Technology
Dr. Omprakash Kaiwartya
Nottingham Trent University
Prof. Dr. Gwanggil Jeon
Incheon National University
Dr. Luca De Marchi
University of Bologna
Dr. Steve Ling
University of Technology Sydney
Prof. Iren Kuznetsova
Kotel'nikov Institute of radio Engineering and Electronics of RAS
Prof. Dr. Anastasios Doulamis
National Technical University of Athens
Winner
Qammer H. Abbasi
University of Glasgow
Chi Hwan Lee
Purdue University
Award Committee
Prof. Vittorio Passaro
Chairman
Politecnico di Bari
Prof. Dr. Luis Guillermo Villanueva
EPFL-STI-IGM NEMS
Prof. Giuseppe Ferri
Univ. L'aquila
Dr. RAFFAELE BRUNO
IIT-CNR
Dr. Alessandro Artusi
CYENS Center of Excellence
Dr. Sara Tombelli
Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara CNR
Dr. Youfan Hu
Peking University
Winner
Dr. Woon-Hong Yeo
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Leonhard Reindl
Chairman
Dr. Carles Gomez
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Dr. Enrico Natalizio
Université de Lorraine
Dr. Christos Koulamas
Industrial Systems Institute / R.C. "Athena"
Prof. Antonio Moschitta
University of Perugia
Prof. Ioannis Chatzigiannakis
Sapienza University of Rome
Prof. Rongxing Lu
University of New Brunswick
Winner
Gaston Crespo
KTH, Royal Institute of Technology
Award Committee
Prof. Vittorio Passaro
Chairman
Politecnico di Bari
Prof. Aldo Minardo
Dr. Stefano Mariani
Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Evgeny Katz
Clarkson University
Dr. Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault
Institut des Sciences Analytiques
Winner
Wei Gao
California Institute of Technology, USA
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