DELEGATES
Country | Region
Role
Name
Australia
Chief Delegate
Mariusz Martyniuk was born in Poland. He received his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree from the University of Toronto, M.A.Sc. from McMaster University, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Western Australia in 2007. He worked in the industry sector as an Electronics Engineer before rejoining The University of Western Australia, where he is currently with the Microelectronics Research Group and manages the Western Australian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility. His primary areas of interest encompass thin-film materials and thin-film mechanics, as well as their applications in micro-electromechanical systems and optoelectronic devices. Dr. Martyniuk’s research contributions were recognized by the award as a team member of the Inaugural Australian Museum Eureka Prize (the Oscars of Australian science) for Outstanding Science in Support of Defence or National Security in 2008.
Associate Professor
The University of Western Australia
Delegate
Prof. Dzung Dao obtained his PhD degree from Ritsumeikan University, Japan, in 2003. He then served as a Postdoctoral researcher (2003–2006), Lecturer (2006–2007), and Chair Professor (2007–2011) at Ritsumeikan. In 2011, he joined Griffith University, Australia, where he is currently a Professor in Mechanical Engineering.
With over 25 years of research experience in MEMS technology, his works focus on advanced sensing effects in semiconductors and nanostructured materials, physical sensors and actuators development, and IoT applications.
Prof. Dao has co-authored over 450 publications, contributed to 9 books and book-chapters, filed 18 patents, and supervised to completion of over 25 PhD students.
Professor
Griffith University
Canada
Chief Delegate
Gordon Harling received a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science from the University of Toronto and a Maîtrise en Ingénierie Physique from Polytechnique Montréal. He worked for ten years in Research and Development at large companies such as Mitel, NovAtel, and DALSA. Over the course of over twenty years he was founder and CEO of many start-up companies including Goal Semiconductor, Elliptic Technologies, and Innotime Technologies.
Since 2018 Mr. Harling has been CEO of CMC Microsystems, a not-for-profit which supports research infrastructure such as design tools and fabrication access for
- Microelectronics
- Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
- Photonics
- Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
- Internet of Things
- Quantum software and hardware
to colleges, universities, and SMEs worldwide.
President and CEO
CMC Microsystems
Delegate
Dr Behraad Bahreyni, SMIEEE, PEng, is a professor and the Director of the Intelligent Sensing Laboratory at Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada. He received his BSc from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 1999, 2001, and 2006, respectively. He was a post-doctoral researcher with the NanoSicence Centre at Cambridge University, UK, where he researched interface circuit design for microresonators. He joined SFU in 2008 after a one-year tenure in the industry as a senior MEMS design engineer. In 2016, he was with NXP Semiconductors, the Netherlands, developing advanced signal processing methods for sensing. His research activities are focused on the design and fabrication of micro/nano-sensors for applications that include consumer electronics, mining, automotive, and space exploration. Dr Bahreyni has contributed to more than 150 technical publications.
Professor
Simon Fraser University
Delegate
Raafat Mansour is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He held Tier 1 – Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Micro-Nano Integrated RF Systems (2010-2024) and an NSERC Industrial Research Chair (IRC) for two terms (2001-2005) and (2006-2010). Currently he holds a University Research Chair. Prior to joining the University of Waterloo in January 2000, Dr. Mansour was with COM DEV Cambridge, Ontario, over the period 1986-1999, where he held various technical and management positions in COM DEV’s Corporate R&D Department. Professor Mansour holds 44 US and Canadian patents and more than 450 refereed IEEE publications to his credit. He is a co-author of a 23-chapter Book published by Wiley and has contributed 7 chapters to five other books. Professor Mansour founded the Centre for Integrated RF Engineering (CIRFE) at the University of Waterloo https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-integrated-rf-engineering/. It houses a clean room and a state-of-the-art RF test and characterization laboratory.
Prof. Mansour co-founded with his graduate students AdHawk Microsystems and ICSPI-Corp based on CMOS-MEMS research carried out in his lab. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC). He was the recipient of the 2014 Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) Engineering Medal for Research and Development and the 2019 IEEE Canada A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal Award.
Professor
University of Waterloo
Iberian Delegation
Chief Delegate
Dr. Luis Fonseca was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1966. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1992. He has developed his professional career in the Barcelona site (IMB) of the National Center of Microelectronics (CNM). He worked as a process engineer at the CNM production facilities, until he joined the Microsystems department as a full senior researcher in 2001. His field of work was initially infrared gas sensing and, nowadays, microenergy harvesting and generation, particularly micro thermogenerators based in thin films or low dimensional materials (i.e. Si NWs).
He has been deputy director of the institute in the period June 2012-June 2016, and he is its current director since May 2021; he is member of the Steering Committee of the European Technology Platform on Smart Systems (EPoSS) since June 2008.
Research Professor
Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona
National Centre of Microelectronics (IMB-CNM)
Delegate
Since 1990 Carles Cané is senior researcher at the National Microelectronics Centre. He started working on CMOS technologies and later he evolved to MEMS, physical sensors and wireless sensor networks. Today, he is involved in the development of new gas sensors and advanced materials for a variety of applications, such as environment, indoor air quality, agrifood, industrial security and home appliances.
In the past, he has been director of the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM), and of the Spanish Large Scale Facility MICRONANOFABS. Concerning Research Management, he has been Project Officer for the Spanish Programme on Microelectronics and Communications, and has acted for 20 years as representative of the Spanish Ministry of Science in the NanoMaterials an ICT Clusters of the European Commission Framework Programmes.
Finally, Carles Cané is proud to have been Chief Delegate of the Iberian Delegation at the MicroMachine Summit until 2019.
Research Professor
Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona
National Centre of Microelectronics (IMB-CNM)
Delegate
Professor Alexandra Bermejo earned the M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Between 2015 and 2023, she served as the Vice Dean of the Barcelona School of Telecommunication Engineering (ETSETB) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Her research is developed within the Electronic Engineering Department at UPC, where she leads the electro-kinetics research group. Her research objectives primarily revolve around the advancement of technology tailored for the production of functional nano-devices through electrowetting, electrospray, and electrothermal techniques, with applications spanning the domains of photonics, energy, and sensing. The research group specializes in fabricating metamaterials designed for energy and sensing applications, encompassing diverse energy harvesting and storage devices, along with the formulation of electrolytes tailored for energy, humidity, and proximity sensors. She has actively contributed to a total of around 30 competitive research projects, both at the national and European levels, leading four of them. She has managed four technology transfer projects with IT companies and research centers. She is author of more than 50 international journal papers, more than 60 conference contributions and holds three patents.
Professor
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Delegate
S. Vallejos (BSc in Electronics Engineering, 2003; Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering, 2008) is a Tenured Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the coordinator of the Gas Sensor Group at the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM). She has held research positions in both academia and industry across Spain, the UK, and the Czech Republic and has been awarded competitive research projects and fellowships.
S. Vallejos is an expert in gas sensor technologies and functional materials and has also extensive experience in microsystems, thin-film technologies, and the application of gas sensors in field. Her current work focuses on integrating these technologies to achieve higher Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) in collaboration with key industrial partners through major projects such as AGRARSENSE (HORIZON-Chips-JU), SENFORFIRE (Interreg-Sudoe), and a VISENS contract under the European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (AEI-AGRI, Catalonia).
Her outreach activities extend to conferences, workshops, lectures, and motivational talks, particularly aimed at inspiring young women in STEM. Her research has been widely published, with most results appearing in top-tier journals, accumulating over 2,409 citations as of February 2025 (Scopus).
Tenure Scientist
Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona
National Centre of Microelectronics (IMB-CNM)
Japan
Chief Delegate
Toshihiro Itoh was born in Japan in 1965. He received the B.E., M.E, and Dr. of Engineering degrees in precision engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1988, 1990, and 1994, respectively. He joined the faculty of the University of Tokyo in 1995. Since 2007, he has been a research manager of MEMS-related laboratory in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. Since 2015, he has been a professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo. Since 2020, he has been a professor of Department of Precision Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. His current Research interest is in wireless sensor network technologies as well as large area MEMS.
Professor of Dept. Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering
The University of Tokyo
Delegate
Toshihiro Itoh was born in Japan in 1965. He received the B.E., M.E, and Dr. of Engineering degrees in precision engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1988, 1990, and 1994, respectively. He joined the faculty of the University of Tokyo in 1995. Since 2007, he has been a research manager of MEMS-related laboratory in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. Since 2015, he has been a professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo. Since 2020, he has been a professor of Department of PrecisionMunehisa Takeda was born in Japan in 1957. He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Precision Mechanics from Kyoto University in 1979 and 1981, respectively. He also received M.S degree in Bioengineering from UCSF/UCB in 1988 and Dr. of Information Science and Technology degree in Mechano-Informatics from The University of Tokyo in 2020. He joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in 1981. After having held general managers of MEMS related departments at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, he is currently the General Manager of MEMS System Development Center at Micromachine Center. He promoted several Japanese national projects related MEMS technologies such as Micromachine project, Road infrastructure monitoring system development project and High-stability ultra-low power atomic clock project. His current research interests are robotics, learning control, bioengineering, VR, micromachine, MEMS, IoT, and DX.
General Manager, MEMS System Development Center
Micromachine Center
Romania
Chief Delegate
Dr Carmen Moldovan is the Director of Research Center for Integration of Technologies (CINTECH) at IMT-Bucharest. She graduated in Electronics and Telecommunications and holds a PhD in Microsensors. She was working at Microelectronica Bucharest in CMOS Technology and later on joined IMT-Bucharest as Head of Laboratory of Microsystems for biomedical and environmental applications, working in simulation, design, technology and characterization of MEMS devices, micro-nanosensors, microsystem integration, data acquisition and signal processing. She was/is involved in 25 EU Projects and 35 National Projects and published more of 130 papers. She owns several EU and National patents. She is currently Coordinator/ Principal investigator in five Horizon Europe projects in the field of sensors and microsystems for environmental and biomedical monitoring and implantable devices. Among them, the coordination of NerveRepack “Intelligent neural system for bidirectional connection with exoprostheses and exoskeletons”, a HORIZON-KDT-JU-2022-RIA project with 27 participants and 10 countries involved.
Carmen is coordinating the Romanian Center for International cooperation in micro nanotechnologies (CESMIN) within IMT-Bucharest.
She is also coordinating the Romanian Centre of competence in Smart Systems for Sensing and Robotics (RO-SMARTSYS) in the frame of “DIGITAL-Chips-2024-SG-CCC-1” call.
Director of Research Centre
National Institute for R&D in Microtechnologies
(IMT-Bucharest)
Delegate
Dr. Adrian Dinescu obtained the MSc and PhD degrees in solid state physics from Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest. Between 1993 and 1997, he was with the National Institute for Electronic Components Research, working in the field of optoelectronics. Since 1997 he is with IMT-Bucharest, currently being CEO and President of the Board. Adrian Dinescu was the head of Nanoscale Structuring and Characterization Laboratory for seventeen years and Technical Manager of IMT for five years. Dr. Dinescu is involved in the micro and nanoscale characterization using FE-SEM and in structuring at the nanoscale using Electron Beam Lithography. His expertise also includes: micro and nanofabrication, thin film deposition and optoelectronic measurements. He has co-authored more than 150 papers in refereed international journals and coordinated 15 national and 3 European research projects.
Director of IMT Bucharest
National Institute for R&D in Microtechnologies
(IMT-Bucharest)
