Biography: Luigi Occhipinti has been managing research and innovation for over 25 years, encompassing multiple fields of engineering including flexible and wearable sensor systems, biomedical devices, advanced signal processing, AI and robotics, renewable energies, and nanomaterials.

He has PhD in Electrical Engineering and Laurea (Master) degree in Electronic Engineering obtained in 1997 and 1992 respectively. In the first part of his career, Luigi devoted 19 years to work for the global semiconductor company STMicroelectronics where he was leading R&D teams located in Italy, France and Singapore, contributing significantly to the company’s front-end technology and manufacturing portfolio, developing long-term strategic vision and contributing to shape the company’s R&D activities for the post-Silicon roadmap, as member of the Corporate R&D technical staff. Since 2014 he works at the University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, where Luigi is currently Director of Research (grade 12, equivalent to Full Professor) and Principal Investigator, head of the OcchipintiGroup, in the Electrical Engineering Division. The outcome of his research and innovation are captured in over 150 scientific publications in journals and conference proceedings, 3 book chapters, and over 90 patents and patent applications, 49 granted, 7 as sole inventor.  He is co-founder and non-executive director of 2 University spinouts with former students and colleagues, and 2 independent startups to commercialise advanced solutions in the field of environmental sensors, wearable sensors, personalised healthcare and energy storage.

Luigi is Senior member of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity, as well as member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), the IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS), the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Materials Research Society (MRS), and sits in multiple advisory boards of multinational collaborative research programs, experts technology groups, and editorial boards of scientific journals and book series.

He contributed to different standardisation committees, such as the IEEE P1620 and P1620.1 on Organic Transistors and Ring Oscillators, the IEC/CEI CT105 on Fuel Cells technology, the IEC/CEI CT111 on Environmental Standardization for Electrical and Electronic Products and Systems, and the IEC/CEI CT113 on Nanotechnologies. He also served as General Chair and Technical Programme Chair in different international conferences such as the IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS 2019-2022), the Innovations in Large-Area Electronics Conference and Exhibition (innoLAE, since 2015), the IEEE Biosensors Conference (2024), which is taking place in Cambridge on 28-30 July 2024.