Nathalie Marcela Cerón Hurtado
She received the B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from University of Cauca, Colombia in 2008, the first M.Sc. degree in Engineering from Balseiro Institute (IB) - National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo), Argentine in 2010, and a second M.Sc. degree in Micro- and Nanoelectronics Engineering from Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain in 2012.
From 2011 to 2015, she was a Trainee Research Staff (PIF), and from 2015-2016, research assistant support at the UAB. During the period 2011-2017, she was a research assistant at Biomonitoring Group - CIBER-BBN.
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She received the Ph.D. degree in Microelectronic and Electronic Systems from Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2017.
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Research Stays
Universidade Estadual Paulista “Julio de Mezquita Filho” (UNESP) - Brazil ​​
06.2007 - 07.2007
Centro Atómico Bariloche (CAB) -RA6 Research Reactor - Argentine ​​
02.2008 - 02.2008
University of Alberta (UofA) - Canada ​​
05.2015 - 08.2015
Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) - Aveiro University - Portugal
02.2017 - 05.2017
MY Ph.D. RESEARCH
From the 70's, the electronic systems for biomedical applications have gradually evolved with device requirements and signal analysis types being the primary objectives while measured biological and physiological parameters have generally been kept the same. However, different methodologies, techniques and conventional equipments that have been developed for the measurement and monitoring of these parameters for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes have some limitations and constraints
The advances in microsystem technologies and wireless transmission show an increasing trend toward the development of “zero power” devices (B.S. Cook et. al) with contactless energy transfer (C. Fernández Herrero) and the techniques that apply to energy “harvesting” (R. Van Schaijk et. al) by conception, design and use of passive sensors (E. Pettenpaul et. al), not only for their ability to establish a wireless link with an external device, but also by the overall interest generated for uncomplicated and low cost systems with low power consumption. These features make these sensors a feasible and interesting possibility especially in the light of biomedical application devices.