Meet our new postdoctoral researchers
Every year we can count on the support of FWO (Research Foundation - Flanders) to conduct outstanding research. Thanks to this support, the following colleagues will start their PostDoc from October 2023 onwards.
Dr. Siegmund Bernhard
Low-Cost Material Sensing for Low-Light Applications
Is it possible to reduce waste across manufacturing industries with a single approach? Infrared cameras allow to remotely determine chemical compositions for many material classes and thus to sort out low-quality products at the first encounter of a process deviation. However, the high cost of such cameras often restricts their use for real-time quality assurance.
Dr. Bernhard Siegmund aims to demonstrate a novel approach – more than 10 times cheaper than conventional infrared cameras. The Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO, Belgium) has recently awarded him a senior postdoctoral fellowship to integrate organic semiconductors onto regular low-cost cameras, as found for example in smartphones.
With support from the research group “Organic Optoelectronics” (Prof. Dr. Koen Vandewal, imo-imomec & Hasselt University), he will focus on developing and optimizing the sensors towards ultra-low noise (three-year project “SOFIA”, start 10/2023).
“These novel sensors will be especially interesting for reliably sensing materials under low-light conditions, as for example the case in high-speed production lines in food processing, pharmaceutics, chemical industry and further manufacturing industries“ - Project leader Dr. Siegmund
Dr. Alessia Pancaro
More info about her research will follow soon.
Dr. Hamid Hamed
More info about his research will follow soon.