EBNet: BEC Systems – from fundamentals in robotics...

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This webinar series is brought to you by Chair: Dr Sharon Velasquez Orta Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering. Newcastle University. Sharon leads the EBNet Working Group on "Bioelectrochemical Development for Environmental Technology".

Featuring:

• Professor Yannis Ieropoulos Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of Southampton.
• Title: Bioelectrochemical Systems – from fundamentals in robotics to real world applications

Prof. Yannis Ieropoulos has a background in electrical and electronics engineering coupled with communications and digital signal processing. His doctorate work addressed the challenge of autonomous robots with a biological digestion system and produced the EcoBots family of robots, powered by microbes inside Microbial Fuel Cells, fed with table sugar, grass clippings, prawn shells, rotten fruit and dead flies (amongst other substrates). Keeping practical applications as the ultimate objective of any scientific investigation enabled Yannis to address challenges of technological implementation at different scales, in different environments and fed with different feedstock substrates, going from μL wearable devices to 100’s of Litres Pee Power® urinals serving hundreds of users per day.

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