After spending almost two years as an engineer in two largest hospitals in Warsaw and having been conferred M.Sc. diploma in Biomedical Engineering, Andrzej Pepłowski decided to pursue a Ph.D. in Printed Electronics. His thesis focused on textronic sensors for pH monitoring for chronic wound care – which is now developed by DEDTiM as the project SmartHEAL.

Meanwhile, he worked on printed 18-lead ECG patches and lab-on-chip sensors. For last two years, his main focus is the project EUKINES which involves both gait sensors (smart insoles) and exercise monitoring (electronic tattoo). The project’s results (still refined through extensive R&D works) will be demonstrated at Future of Electronics RESHAPED event by TechBlick, 16-18 October in Berlin, Germany.

Thanks to his hands-on experience working with healthcare professionals as well as handling printed sensors from ink formulation to electrochemical in-situ testing, Andrzej is able to facilitate and accelerate biomedical devices’ design. He excels at defining user-oriented, medical objectives in engineering terms and conversely – translating technological issues for healthcare practitioners.

Most recently, Andrzej Pepłowski employed his expertise with printing sensors to lay a groundwork for new paradigm in composing and understanding screen-printing pastes for electrochemical transducers. So far, he published the first article on the topic, Self-Assembling Graphene Layers for Electrochemical Sensors Printed in a Single Screen-Printing Process, and works on next experiments to further develop his assumptions.