Wearable technologies for sweat rate and conductivity sensors: design and principles (PDF)

Biography

Pietro Salvo received the M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering in 2004, specialization in biomedical applications, with the thesis "Realization of low-power analogue SC-CMOS filter which implements the wavelet algorithm to analyse ECG signals in pacemakers." During his M.Sc. thesis, he was at the Delft University of Technology, Electronics Research Laboratory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Mekelweg 4, Delft (The Netherlands).
He received the Ph.D. degree in "Automation, Robotics and Bioengineering" from University of Pisa, Italy, in 2009 with the thesis "Development of wearable sensors for the measurement of sweat conductivity and rate."
From 2008 until 2009, he was at the Institute for the Conservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage, National Council of Research, Florence (Italy) where he was involved in the development of models and protocols for the monitoring of monumental buildings and paintings.
In 2009-2013, he was at the Centre for Microsystems Technology (CMST), Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium), where he was responsible of the development of sensors, electronic devices and microfluidic systems for bioengineering platforms.
From 2013 to 2016, he was at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy) where he worked on sensors and biosensors for the monitoring of human fluids and physiological parameters.
From September 2016, he is at the Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Council of Research, Pisa (Italy), where he is currently working on bioengineering applications such as a human breath sampling system, sensors for monitoring food quality and wearable sensors for wound monitoring.

His scientific areas of interest include sensors and biosensors, non-invasive or minimal invasive monitoring tools, wireless sensors networks, smart materials and nanomaterials, hybrid systems, data analysis and signal processing.