Scientific Advisory Board

IMB-CNM is supervised by a high-level external body appointed by CSIC: the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), consisting of professors and researchers from international research centres, universities and companies working in areas related to the R&D lines of IMB-CNM.

It was first established in 2018 and it meets periodically to be up-to-date with latest cutting-edge research of the institute.

The current members of the IMB-CNM Scientific Advisory Board are the following:

_{From left to right: Christian Bergaud, Wolfgang Dettmann, Elvira Fortunato, Jon Mabe, Tomás Palacios, E.M.J (Sabeth) Verpoorte, Maud Vinet and Haixia (Alice) Zhang.}

• Christian Bergaud, Laboratory of Systems Analysis and Architecture (LAAS-CNRS, France)

Bergaud conducts research in the fields of mechanical and electronic engineering, focusing on functional materials and polymer technologies for flexible sensors and implantable devices. He directs the MEMS laboratory at the same center. He has led several French initiatives related to micro- and nanoelectronics, such as one of the presidencies of the National Committee for Scientific Research and the direction of the National Research Group on Micro-Nanosystems.

• Wolfgang Dettmann, Infineon (Germany)

Dettmann works at Infineon, one of the main European microelectronics companies, coordinating participation in European projects and platforms. In particular, it is a prominent member of the European platforms EPOSSS and ECSEL, which concentrate most of the industry-oriented research activities in the field of micro/nano systems.

• Elvira Fortunato, NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal)

Fortunato has a career distinguished by scientific, academic, and political leadership, with recognized impact both nationally and internationally. She holds a PhD in Microelectronics and is a pioneer in the field of transparent electronics, being the inventor of the first paper transistor. She is currently the most cited researcher at NOVA University Lisbon. She has held high-level responsibilities, notably serving as Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, a role in which she promoted policies to bring science, higher education, and national priorities closer together.

• Jon Mabe, Tekniker (Spain)

Mabe has a career distinguished by engineering and technology leadership, evolving from Hardware/Firmware Engineering to senior management, with a strong focus on industrial and medical sensor systems for critical applications. He has broad expertise across hardware, firmware, software, optoelectronics, communication technologies, product lifecycle management, and certification standards, with experience spanning both new product development and established product support. His career also reflects extensive experience in customer and end-user relationships, international collaboration, and the coordination of teams and partners across Europe and the United States.

• Tomás Palacios, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA)

Palacios is a professor of electrical engineering at MIT, director of the MIT Microsystems Technologies Laboratory and associate director of the new SUPeRior Energy-efficient Materials and dEvices (SUPeRior Energy-efficient Materials and dEvices, SUPREME) Center. In addition, he is a Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at MIT, a recognition of his innovative career, his teaching and mentoring, and his contributions to MIT. He is an international reference in wide bandgap semiconductors, 2D materials, power electronics and advanced semiconductors (such as gallium nitride).

• E.M.J (Sabeth) Verpoorte, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

Veerporte is one of the pioneers in the field of Lab-on-a-chip. She has been the director of the pharmaceutical analysis group at Gottingen University.

• Maud Vinet, Quobly (France)

Cofounder and CEO of the start-up Quobly dedicated to quantum computation based on semiconductor technologies, member of the French Nanoscience Foundation. She led the CMOS Laboratory at CEA-LETI, one of the main institutions of microelectronics in the country.

• Haixia Zhang, Peking University (China)

Zhang is a professor in the Department of Microelectronics at Beijing University. She is an expert in the area of micro and nanotechnologies, MEMS and NEMS, with a focus on new manufacturing methods. Prof. Zhang is also the founder of the international iCAN innovation competition.

Former members of the SAB to whom the IMB-CNM wishes to express its sincere gratitude for their dedication, commitment, hard work and valuable ideas over the years.

• Sabino Azcárate, Tekniker (Spain)

Azcárate is Deputy Director of Technology at Tekniker, a technology center in the Basque Country, with a complementary activity to the one of the IMB-CNM. He is also member of the ICTS Micronanofabs advisory committee, so that coordination between the strategic plans of the ICTS and the IMB-CNM can be guaranteed.

• Janny van den Eijnden-van Raaij, hDMT Institute (Netherlands)

Den Eijnden is Director of the Institute for Human Organ Technologies and Disease Modeling (hDMT). She is an expert in Organ on a Chip.

• Liviu Nicu, LAAS-CNRS (France)

Nicu is the director of LAAS, a CNRS center in Toulouse, France. His research career is related to several lines of research at IMB-CNM.

• Pep Pàmies, Nature Biomedical (United Kingdom)

Pàmies is the editor of the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering. His role focused on giving advise on the center's research lines focused on bio and the dissemination of results.

• Florin Udrea, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

Udrea is a Professor of Semiconductor Engineering at the University of Cambridge, an expert in power devices, and the founder of several semiconductor-related companies.