Best Paper Selected by IEEE Women in Engineering
July 12, 2019 - She was awarded by the largest international association aimed at supporting female engineers and scientists, IEEE Women in Engineering (WE). Daniela Lo Presti, a PhD student in Bioengineering at the Biomedical Measurements and Instrumentation Unit, brought her work on 'smart tissue' to Istanbul, at the fourteenth edition of the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, the three-day event that took place from 26 to 28 June and which represents the flagship event for researchers in its field.
Best conference paper for the "Best Women in Engineering Paper Award", the paper “Cardiac monitoring with a smart textile based on polymer-encapsulated FBG: influence of sensor positioning” investigates the performance of a smart textiles optical fiber sensor. An intelligent system capable of recording, in different positions, the micro-movements to which the rib cage is subjected during the pumping of blood in the aorta, but also of estimating the heart rate of the wearer, in a comfortable and non-invasive way.
Made under the guidance of Emiliano Schena, associate of mechanical and thermal measurements UCBM, the PhD student's work was carried out in collaboration with the ENEA research center in Frascati and the BioRobotics institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa.
