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We are pleased to announce that Encyclopedia will be awarding five Outstanding Contributor Awards for researchers in 2020. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Encyclopedia Editorial Board.

Prize for Winners

1. An official certificate;
2. A cash award of 500 CHF or an MDPI discount voucher of 800 CHF.

Application Deadline

31 December, 2020 (Please send your application email with a list of all entries you contributed to our office before the deadline: office@encyclopedia.pub)

Candidate Requirements

1. Have a Ph.D. degree;
2. Have more than three qualified entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020.

Evaluation Standards

1. Number of entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020;
2. Quality of entries online (including length, figure quality, and novelty);
3. Impact of entries (including the number of likes, discussion contents, views, and downloads).

If you are a researcher and have not yet contribute entries to Encyclopedia, please do not miss this chance to highlight your research results.

MDPI will be attending the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Seville, Spain, October 12–14, 2020.

The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society and the world’s premiere networking forum for researchers in the highly active fields of theory, design and implementation of circuits and systems. This is accomplished through technical conference sessions, poster sessions, live demonstration sessions, and publication of conference papers. ISCAS 2020 will be driven by the theme Deploying CASS Knowledge towards Society Grand Challenges aiming to emphasize the potential of the CAS Society to find multidisciplinary solutions for the societal and engineering challenges of our times.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Electronics (leading journal)
• Games
• Jounal of Sensor and Acuator Networks
• Jounal of Low Power Electronics and Applications

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://iscas2020.org/.

MDPI will be attending the CLEO Laser Science to Photonic Applictions, San Jose, California, USA, May 12-14, 2020

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics to generate quality face-time with world renowned industry leaders and help achieve your annual sales and marketing goals. Special industry offerings make this event a magnet for executives and scientific equipment users throughout the buying channel. Exhibitors will have extensive, targeted opportunities for exposure and in-depth interaction with key prospects and customers. These high-level buyers are looking to you—the leading product experts, manufacturers and service providers—for the most innovative, cost-effective solutions to support their missions.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Applied Sciences (leading journal)
• Photonics (co-leading)
• Electronics
• Fibers
• Materials

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #2607). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.cleoconference.org/home/.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Elias Stathatos has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of “Microelectronics and Optoelectronics” in Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292; CODEN: ELECGJ). His term started at the beginning of January 2020.

Elias Stathatos graduated from the Physics Department in 1991 and received his PhD in Materials Science/School of Engineering in 1999, both from the University of Patras, Greece. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, in 2004. From 2005 to 2019, he was a faculty member of Technological Educational Institute of Patras and is currently Professor at the University of Peloponnese. In the period 2008–2010, he was Department Head of the Electrical Engineering Department at Technological Educational Institute of Patras.

His research interests encompass different themes, such as conversion of solar into electrical energy using dye-sensitized, quantum dot, and perovskite solar cells employing nanostructured materials. Furthermore, Prof. Stathatos is also interested in the application of electrochromic nanocomposite materials in smart windows as well as OLED and OFET devices and nanosensors in environmental applications. He is the author of more than 130 papers published in ISI journals, six book chapters (a list of publications can be found here), and five international patents related to solar cells and electrochromic devices. He has been an invited speaker or reviewer in numerus international journals. He is also Associate Editor of International Journal of Photoenergy (Hindawi Publishing Corporation) and Elsevier’s Heliyon (Elsevier) in addition to being on the advisory board of their publication Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. In 2020, he was appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief for the Section “Microelectronics and Optoelectronics” of Electronics. He has also organized several Special Issues in international journals.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Elias Stathatos as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section “Microelectronics and Optoelectronics” under his leadership.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Alessandro Gabrielli has been appointed as Associate Section Editor-in-Chief of “Microelectronics and Optoelectronics” in Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started at the beginning of February 2020.

Alessandro Gabrielli, of the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Bologna, received a degree in Physics (110/110) in 1993, and later his PhD in Physics, from the University of Bologna, Italy.

He was a Project Associate at CERN of Geneva in the years 2008-2010 (6 months cumulative), joining international projects on electro-optical radiation-hardened microelectronic devices for applications in LHC experiments at CERN.

He was a Visiting Professor at the Center for Human Space Robotics (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) in Turin, Italy, December 2012–May 2013. The research dealt with the design of wireless sensor read-out systems for space applications and radiation-resistant microchips. He also collaborated with the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy; Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), USA; CERN of Geneva, Switzerland; and the Ratherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK.

His research interests include electronics, microelectronics and, in particular, his recent work for the ATLAS Experiment at CERN of Geneva. He is in charge of the firmware design for high-speed digital off-detector acquisition systems.

He is the co-author of hundreds of scientific papers, visible in http://www.bo.infn.it/~gabriell/private/papers.html. The papers cover nuclear physics and electronic digital applications for high-energy physics experiments. Dr. Gabrielli has personally presented tens of talks at international scientific conferences.

He teaches General Physics for the School of Engineering and Architecture and Applied Electronics for the School of Science at the University of Bologna, Italy.

He advised for many MA theses in physics and electronics, as well as a telecommunications PhD thesis for the ATLAS Experiment at CERN of Geneva.

He is member of the PhD board for Physics at the University of Bologna.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Tae-Yeon Seong has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section “Semiconductor Devices” of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292).

Dr. Tae-Yeon Seong received his Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Oxford in 1992. After two years of research at the University of Oxford, he joined the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in 1994. He carried out research at GIST for ~10 years, after which he was invited to be Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Korea University in September 2005, as a Professor of Materials Science; He served as Chair of the MSE Department and Director for the BK21 Center for Advanced Device Materials from 2011 to 2016. His research interests and activities include LEDs, transparent conducting oxides, nanomaterials and device applications, characterization of semiconductor and electronic materials, integration of TFT and μ-LEDs, IR sensors and filters, and memristors. Dr. Seong has published over 450 peer-reviewed journal papers and holds over 230 patents issued or pending. Dr. Seong was awarded the EPD award from ECS (2018). He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) (2008), SPIE (2013), the Electrochemical Society (ECS) (2017), and the Materials Research Society (MRS) (2018). He has served as an associate editor of Semiconductor Science and Technology (IOP) and an editorial board member (EBM) for over 10 years. He also served as an EBM or guest editor of several international journals, including the Journal of Solid-State Lighting, ECS journal of Solid-State Science and Technology, ECS Solid-State Letters, Electronic Materials Letters, and Physica Status Solidi.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ajeet Kaushik has been appointed Associate Section Editor-in-Chief for the section "Bioelectronics" of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started in January 2020.

Ajeet Kaushik, M.Sc., Ph.D., Fellow-Indian Chemical Society I, as an assistant professor of chemistry at Flrida Polytechnic University, is exploring nanotechnology, material science, thin films, miniaturized sensors, electrochemistry, electrochemical biosensors, nanomedicine, drug delivery to CNS, and biomedical engineering for health wellness. 

Dr. Kaushik received his Ph.D. on chemistry and nano-enabled biosensors in collaboration with National Physical Laboratory and Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, India. Prior to moving to Polytech, he worked as an Assistant Professor to explore “magnetic nanomedicine along with drug delivery to the brain for CND disease management and miniaturized electrochemical sensing systems for personalized health wellness” at the Center of Personalized Nanomedicine, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Department of Immunology and Nano-Medicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University (FIU), Miami USA. He is the recipient of various reputed awards for his service in the area of nano-biotechnology in healthcare. His excellent research credentials are reflected in his four edited books, over 100 international research peer-reviewed publications, and three patents in the area of nanomedicine and smart biosensors for personalized healthcare.

In the course of his research, Dr. Kaushik has been engaged in the design and development of various electro-active nanostructures for electrochemical biosensor and nanomedicine for healthcare. His research interests include nano-biotechnology, analytical systems, design and development of nanostructures, nanocarriers for drug delivery, nanotherapeutics for CNS diseases, on-demand site-specific release of therapeutic agents, exploring personalized nanomedicines, biosensors, point-of-care sensing devices, and related areas of health care monitoring.

We would like to warmly welcome Dr. Ajeet Kaushik as Associate Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section "Bioelectronics" under his leadership.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Enzo Pasquale Scilingo has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section “Bioelectronics” of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started in January 2020.

Enzo Pasquale Scilingo is a full Professor in Electronic and Information Bioengineering at the University of Pisa. He received his Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy and his Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the University of Milan, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. For two years, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Italian National Research Council and for two another years a post-doctoral fellow at Information Engineering Department of the University of Pisa.

Currently, he is pursuing his research work mainly at the Research Center “E. Piaggio”. He has several teaching activities, he is the supervisor of several PhD students, and he is leading the laboratory Biolab at the Information Engineering Department. He coordinated European project EC-FP7-ICT-247777 “PSYCHE-Personalized monitoring Systems for Care in mental Health”, and he is currently coordinating two other European projects: H2020-PHC-2015-689691 NEVERMIND—Neurobehavioral Predictive and Personalized Modeling of Depressive Symptoms during Primary Somatic Diseases with ICT-Enabled Self-Management Procedures and H2020-FETPROACT-2018-01- 824153 POTION—Promoting Social Interaction through Emotional Body Odors. His main research interests are in wearable monitoring systems, human–computer interfaces, biomedical and biomechanical signal processing, modeling, control, and instrumentation.

He is the author of more than 200 papers on peer-review journals, contributions to international conferences, and chapters in international books. He is also the co-author of three books edited by Springer. He is currently serving as a reviewer for many international journals and as a member of Program and Scientific Committees of yearly international conferences. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: Plos One, Scientific Reports – Nature, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Frontiers in Robotics and AI section Bionics and Biomimetics, Frontiers in Neuroscience section Neural technology, Electronics, Complexity, and the ETRI Journal.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Enzo Pasquale Scilingo as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section "Bioelectronics" under his leadership.

Zita Vale is Full Professor at the Engineering School of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal. She received her diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and her PhD in 1993, both from University of Porto. She works in the area of power and energy systems, with special interest in the application of artificial intelligence techniques.

She has been involved in more than 60 funded projects related to the development and use of knowledge-based systems, multiagent systems, machine learning, metaheuristics, optimization, and data mining. The main application fields of these projects comprise:

• Smart grids, accommodating an intensive use of renewable energy sources, distributed energy resources (DER), namely distributed generation (DG), storage, electric vehicles including the ones with griddable capability (V2G), and demand flexibility. Real-time management and simulation of energy resources, considering electrical networks, buildings, and diverse Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) approaches are relevant aspects of her work in this field;
• Electricity markets, addressing decision support for market participants, prices and tariffs, ancillary services, energy transactions, service provision, and market simulation in the scope of wholesale and emergent local markets. The integration of DER, demand response, and EVs in electricity markets and transactive energy (TE) approaches are important aspects of her work. Her work also focuses on the conception, development, and testing of new business models for market participants and aggregation models for energy resources and the respective management and operation methods.

She published over 800 works, including more than 100 papers in international scientific journals and more than 500 papers in international scientific conferences.

See some of her selected publications at http://www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt/GECAD/Pages/Pubs/Publications.aspx.

MDPI is pleased to announce the release of SciProfiles, its social network platform for researchers and scholars.

The purpose of SciProfiles is aligned with MDPI’s broad mission to accelerate discovery and innovation by facilitating immediate access to research results and to serve scholars and communities by providing opportunities for academic networking.

SciProfiles also ambitions to serve as a sustainable, transparent and community-driven research evaluation system aligned with the DORA principles (https://sfdora.org/). Through their scientific profiles, academics can highlight their contribution to research communities, and measure their impact on their field, beyond publication numbers and impact factors. SciProfiles is currently a beta version and will enrich to give researchers the possibility to highlight all of their contributions to science and their scientific communities as authors, reviewers, editors, conference organizers, conference panelists, conference keynote speakers, or even as lecturers or student mentors at their University.

The classic components of popular community social networks, including follower/following, classical metrics, endorsements and recommendations (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1690), comments (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1397) are or will be very soon highlighted in SciProfiles as open science contributions.

To help increase the impact and visibility of articles and their authors to an appropriate audience, the platform offers a NewsFeed that includes recommendations of relevant content based on interests, publication history, saved searches or colleagues’ recommendations.

SciProfiles’ avatars are now being integrated on several MDPI platforms, meaning that you will directly access researchers’ profiles from any of the MDPI platforms:

MDPI's journal publishing website: www.mdpi.com
MDPI's conference hosting and management website: www.sciforum.net
MDPI's pre-print website : www.preprints.org
MDPI's knowledge sharing website : www.encyclopedia.pub
MDPI's books store: www.mdpi.com/books
MDPI's literature database : www.scilit.com

SciProfiles aims to serve scientific communities at large. It can be embedded into third-party websites and also welcomes integration of data from third-parties.

Dr. Shu-Kun Lin: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/2
Dr. Franck Vazquez: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/FranckVazquez
Dr. Martyn Rittman: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/martynrittman