Rate My Professor Ana Claudia Arias

Professor Arias's research centers on the use of electronic materials processed from solution in flexible electronic systems, employing printing techniques to fabricate flexible large-area electronic devices and sensors. Her interests encompass physical electronics, power and energy, and flexible and printed electronics. She directs the Arias Research Group at Berkeley, which has produced PhD theses on topics including printed biodegradable wireless soil nitrate sensor nodes for precision agriculture, printed nitrate sensor nodes, solution-processed electronics for flexible hybrid systems, sensing systems using large-area printed organic electronics, printed flexible electrochemical sensors, wearable medical sensors enabled by printed bioelectronics, and printed organic light-emitting diodes for biomedical applications. Group alumni have secured positions at leading institutions and companies such as Intel, Apple, Meta, and Georgia Tech. She also directs the Berkeley Emerging Technologies Research (BETR) center and participates in the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC).

Arias has received major awards and honors, including election as an IEEE Fellow in 2025, National Academy of Inventors Fellow in 2025, Tampere University Honorary Doctorate in 2022, NAE Gilbreth Lectureship in 2017, FLEXI R&D Achievements Award in 2017, and Bakar Fellows Spark Award in 2014. Key publications include "All-organic optoelectronic sensor for pulse oximetry" in Nature Communications (2014), "A High Areal Capacity Flexible Lithium-Ion Battery with a Strain-Compliant Design" in Advanced Energy Materials (2014), "Materials and Applications for Large Area Electronics: Solution-Based Approaches" in Chemical Reviews (2010), "Wireless ear EEG to monitor drowsiness" in Nature Communications (2024), and "Printed Potentiometric Nitrate Sensors for Use in Soil" in Sensors (2022).