Plenary talks & Program

Plenary Conference 1

Pr. Arduini Fabiana, UNIROMA2, IT

 Fabiana Arduini is a Full Professor at Department of Chemical Science and Technologies, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, founder of start-up SENSE4MED, Quality Assurance Manager at ISO9001 Certified Laboratory LabCap, University of Rome "Tor Vergata”, Editor of Green Analytical Chemistry Journal, Elsevier, Associated Editor of Microchemical Journal, Elsevier, Specialty Chief Editor Micro- and Nano- Sensors, Frontiers in Sensors. Her research activity deals with the development of miniaturised electrochemical devices mainly using screen-printed electrodes modified with nanomaterials and paper-based analytical tools applied in environmental, biomedical, agrifood, and defense sectors, with over 200 articles published in peer-review journals, H index 70, Google scholar source, > 10 patents, coordinators of several national/international projects including Horizon Europe Pathfinder project Phoenix-OoC (March 2024- February 2027). Her name is listed in the top 2 % of most cited researchers in the world.

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Plenary Conference 2

 Analog Integrated circuits conception from designer's knowledge to IA tools: historical evolution!

Pr. Alami Marktani Malika

ENSA - USMBA, Fez, MA

 Malika Alami Marktani received the B.Sc degree in telecommunications in 2005, the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication systems & microelectronics in 2007 and then the  Ph.D. degree in microelectronics from Science and Technology Faculty of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University in Fez, Morocco, in 2013. She is currently Professor at the National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA) of Fez where she is teaching electrical engineering & numerical systems since 2017.  She is the coordinator of the embedded systems and artificial intelligence engineering programme. As a permanent member of the Laboratory of Science and Engineering Research (LaRSI), her research interests include microelectronic design, implementation and test & optimization of analog ICs using IA and development of new architectures of LPDC decoders for 5G and 6G.

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Plenary Conference 3

Pr. Llobet Eduard, URV, ESP

 Eduard Llobet is a Full Professor of Electronic Technology at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. President of the Spanish Network on Microsystems and Nanotechnology (IBERNAM) from 2016 to 2024 and currently President of the Spanish IEEE Sensors Chapter.  Research interests in the bottom up and top-down preparation of nanomaterials and their application to gas sensing devices and photocatalysis for environmental monitoring, industrial safety, health and water de-contamination. Co-author of more than 300 journal papers, editor of 3 books and given 45 invited lectures to conferences and seminars with H index 66. Principal investigator of some 30 International, National and Regional projects. Supervisor of 21 Doctoral Theses. Shortlisted in the Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientists in the last 4 years.

In 2012, I received the URV's RQR Award for quality and leadership in research. I was awarded the ICREA Academia Award in the 2012, 2018 and 2023 Editions. In 2019 I was awarded the Distinguished Professorship from URV. Winner of the Innovation Award from the Diputació de Tarragona in 2022 and Recipient of the Joan Pedrerol Gallego award to the social impact of research in 2023.

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Plenary Conference 4

 Silicon-based strain microgauges - development, applications and perspectives

Pr. Laurent A. Francis, UCL, BE

 Laurent A. Francis is Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLouvain, where he has led the Sensors, Microsystems and Actuators Laboratory of Louvain (SMALL) since 2007. He previously held research and visiting professor positions at the microelectronics research center imec (Belgium) and at the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada). Prof. Francis received his M.Eng., DEA, and Ph.D. in Applied Sciences from UCLouvain. His research focuses on micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), porous silicon technologies, ultrathin functional materials, and bio-inspired sensing strategies, with applications in biomedical, environmental, and radiative systems. He has authored more than 160 peer-reviewed publications and several patents, and contributes to international scientific networks including the COST Action Netpore. He is a regular IEEE member and serves on the board of the Belgian National Committee on Biomedical Engineering.

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Plenary Conference 5

Titre:  Towards an industrial intelligent IoT: the contribution of reconfigurable smart surfaces for LoRa communications

Pr. Medimagh Belghith Safya

ENIT, Tunisia

 Safya Medimagh Belghith is full Professor at the National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT) of the University of Tunis El Manar,she is an engineer graduated in Electrical Engineering from ENIT, and holds aMaster Degree (DE and a PhD in Automation and Signal Processing obtained at Supélec (Paris XI, University, France).Safya Medimagh Belghith also holds a State Doctorate in Physical Sciences at the Faculty of Sciences in Tunis. Safya Medimagh Belghith leads the Laboratory for Research in Robotics, Computer Science and Complex Systems (RISC). She is also president of the National Committee for the Evaluation of Scientific Research Activities (CNEARS).

Safya Medimagh Belghith research activities focuses on the analysis and control of nonlinear systems
and chaotic phenomena, with applications in engineering and biomedicine, notably through the use of
non-linear dynamics tools and artificial intelligence.

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Plenary Conference 6

 Phase Change Materials: from embedded memory to tunable metasurface and photonic applications

Pr. Putero Magali, IM2NP, FR

 Magali Putero is a materials physicist and Full Professor at Aix-Marseille University, at theI M2NP Institute, where she co-leads the Reactivity and Diffusion at Interfaces research team. Her research has long focused on phase change materials (PCMs), with particular emphasis on their crystallization mechanisms and structure–property relationships. She has been a member of the scientific committee of the E\PCOS (European Phase-Change and Ovonic Symposium) international conference series since 2014 and organized the most recent edition in Marseille. From 2012 to 2016, she led a joint research program with IBM on PCM materials. She currently coordinates, for IM2NP, the SOW-GST contracts (2020–2028) between STMicroelectronics and CNRS and actively contributes to advanced characterization activities within the GDR Chalco research network. More recently, her research has expanded toward active optical metasurfaces, combining her expertise in PCMs with dielectric metasurfaces fabricated by soft nanoimprint lithography (soft-NIL), in collaboration with the start-up SOLNIL (two invention disclosures in 2024 and one patent filed in 2025). She is currently supervising three PhD students, including one jointly funded by SOLNIL and the Région Sud (EJD contract) on PCM-based optical metasurfaces. In 2025, she was awarded a Senior Innovation Chair by the Institut Universitaire de France.

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Plenary Conference 7

Pr. Sassatelli Gilles, LIRMM, FR

 Gilles Sassatelli is CNRS research director at the Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics in Montpellier (LIRMM). He is a specialist in adaptive embedded architectures and is currently conducting research at the interface between embedded AI and digital sustainability through original approaches at the crossroads of several disciplines. This research has been and is being carried out in various collaborative frameworks (European projects or national programs). He is currently co-pilot of the Emerging project of the artificial intelligence PEPR program and president of the scientific council of the CNRS computer Sciences Institute. He also co-leads the Artificial Intelligence and Embedded Systems axis of the GDR SoC2, and is regularly involved in calls, expertise from various national agencies

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