Perceptive Sensors and AI-embodied Wearable Electronics (Ref: FP-LO-2026)

About the Project

Synthetic Senses - Natural Interfaces: from flexible sensors to wearable electronics that listen, learn from and assist the human body.

Flexible and wearable electronics are crossing a threshold: no longer limited to measuring physiological parameters, they are starting to interact with the body, closing the loop between multimodal sensing, compliant materials, and perceptive intelligence.

This PhD project will focus on emerging paradigms of AI-embodied wearables and biologically-inspired computational machines that combine advanced materials science and manufacturing to create natural human-machine interfaces for applications in sport science and technology, assistive healthcare and augmentation of human capabilities.

Inspired from natural sensory processes, our research develops wearable electronic platforms that both mimic and extend human sensing capabilities with improved performance and skin-compliant form factor. Recent advances include low-power wearable electronics, smart textiles, on-body energy harvesters, and low-dimensional materials integration in computationally- and energy-efficient neuromorphic computing devices.

The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated experience in multidisciplinary research projects and a genuine interest in exploring new frontiers of science and technology, towards the development of transformative platforms for sport and wellness monitoring, assistive wearable technologies and human body digital twin modelling.