Alberto José Palma López

BSc/PhD in Physics (Electronics) from University of Granada, Spain in 1991/1995. Lecturer of Electronics Technology at the University of Granada since 1991. Currently, I am Full Professor at the University of Granada since 2011. In November 1991, when I joint to the Department of Electronics and Computer Technology at the UGR, the research lines of the research group focused on the characterization, modelling and simulation of electronic devices, so I was part of both the experimental and theoretical study of the various effects that deep centers have in semiconductor structures. In this topic, my doctoral thesis and the first two doctoral theses under my co-direction were developed. In the 2000/2001 academic year, with the establishment of a collaboration (which is currently at full capacity) with the group of chemical sensors of Prof. Captain Vallvey, I started a new line within the research group dedicated to the design and characterization of sensors and portable instrumentation with applications in various fields (biomedicine, environment, analytical chemistry, etc.). This interdisciplinary group ECsens currently has more than 20 researchers from the fields of Chemistry, Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology and in its field 11 Doctoral Theses have been addressed and there are 4 Doctoral Thesis projects under its supervision. My current interests in research are focused on physical and chemical sensors, electronic instrumentation, flexible and printed electronics, and microfluidics.

As a brief summary of the work carried out, it is worth highlighting the publication of 117 research articles, of which 95 are in journals of the first quartile, 2 books, 3 book chapters, having supervised 12 Doctoral Theses and being a co-inventor of 7 patents. My H index according to Google Scholar is 32 with 3682 cites up to now. I have has participated in 34 research projects of European, national and regional funding of which in 20 as leading research. I have has also participated and directed numerous technological research projects and collaboration with companies (20).

I currently have four six-year research, one knowledge transfer, five five-year teaching and five regional periods.