Ferran Martín

Prof. Ferran Martín (Fellow, IEEE & IET) is Full Professor of Electronics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where he leads the Microwave Engineering, Metamaterials and Antennas (GEMMA) Group and founded CIMITEC, a research and technology transfer center. His research spans metamaterials, artificial transmission lines, microwave circuits and filters, antennas, chipless-RFID, and planar microwave sensors—his current main focus.

Prof. Martín has authored or co-authored more than 700 scientific publications, several patents, and multiple books, including Metamaterials with Negative Parameters (Wiley), Artificial Transmission Lines for RF and Microwave Applications (Wiley), and Planar Microwave Sensors (Wiley/IEEE). He has supervised 22 PhD theses and led numerous collaborative projects with industry.

He has organized and chaired major international events, served as Guest Editor for several special issues, and is on the editorial boards of leading journals including IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. His contributions have been recognized with multiple awards, including the Duran Farell Prize for Technological Research and four ICREA Academia Awards.

Title of the presentation:
Recent advances in planar microwave sensors and applications

Abstract:
This talk focuses on the recent advances related to the design of high-performance microwave sensors implemented in planar technology, with special emphasis on sensitivity and selectivity optimization. Strategies for sensitivity enhancement in phase-variation and magnitude-variation sensors will be analysed. The talk also deals with the issue of sensor selectivity, important to determine analyte composition in complex samples, and approached by means of machine learning. Examples of applications will be also given, including sensors for structural health monitoring and biosensors.