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We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Xue Wang has been appointed as Section Associate Editor of the Physical Sensors Section in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). He joined Sensors in 2008 and has made great contributions to our growth and development.

Xue Wang is a professor of the Department of Precision Instruments at Tsinghua University. He is the current Vice Dean of the Department of Precision Instrument and the State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurements Technology and Instruments. He has been on the Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholars List in 2014, 2015, and 2016; he served as the standing director of the Chinese Instrument and Control Society, the standing director of the Chinese Society for Measurement, and the vice-chairman of the China Computer Federation TC IoT.

Xue Wang received his M.S. degree in measurement and instrument from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1991 and his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1994. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow of electrical power system with the Huazhong University of Science and Technology from 1994 to 1996. He then joined the Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, where he is currently a Professor and the Vice Dean of Department of Precision Instrument. From 2001 to 2002, he was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

His research interests include topics in wireless sensor networks, cyber-physical systems, intelligent biosignal processing, medical image processing, and smart energy utilization. Prof. Wang is a Senior Member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Computer Society, Computational Intelligence Society, and Communications Society.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Xue Wang in his role as Section Associate Editor and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieve more milestones.

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Prof. Dr. Xue Wang

Website: http://www.dpi.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/dpi/5109/2011/20110119091518325673772/20110119091518325673772_.html
Email: wangxue@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Affiliation: Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China
Interests: intelligent sensors; sensors networks; remote sensing; intelligent signal processing; Kalman filtering; multisensor fusion; intelligent maintenance and fault prognosis; measurement instrumentation; robust and optimal control

We are inviting applications for the following seven section travel awards for jounior scientists. The winners will be awarded 500 CHF each and a certificate. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars in the field.

Sensors 2021 Travel Award in Physical Sensors
Sensors 2021 Travel Award in Intelligent Sensors
Sensors 2021 Travel Award in Chemical Sensors
Sensors 2021 Travel Award in Remote Sensors
Sensors 2021 Travel Award in Sensors Networks
Sensors 2021 Travel Award in Biosensors
Sensors 2021 Travel Award for Women

Candidate Requirements:

– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students (proof required) in one of the above fields.

– Plans to attend an online or physical international conference in 2021 (oral presentation or poster).

Required Application Documents:

– Information concerning the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.

– A curriculum vitae and a list of publications.

– A justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).

– A letter of recommendation from a supervisor.

Please submit your applications for the travel awards online by clicking the above award titles before 28 February 2021. The prizes will be awarded at the end of March 2021 and announced on the Sensors website.

MDPI will be attending the 4th Micro-Nano Optics Technology and Application Exchange Conference (MOTA2020), Chengdu, September 26–28, 2020.

MOTA2020 is organized by the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering, which combines the national defense and industrial applications to build a large platform for the industrial chain. The aim is to build a seamless docking platform for scientific and technical personnel engaged in related research in China and industrial application teams to form a joint force to promote the rapid technological development of micro-nano optics itself and its industrial development.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Energies (leading journal)
• Photonics
• Nanomaterials
• Coatings
• Sensors
• Clean Technologies
• Safety
• Micromachines

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It is our great pleasure to announce that Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220; CODEN: SENSC9) has received an increased Citescore (2019 Scopus data) of 5.0 for the year 2019, which equals the rank of 17/129 (Q1) in ‘’Physics and Astronomy: Instrumentation’’, the rank of 147/670 (Q1) in ‘’Electrical and Electronic Engineering’’, and the rank of 35/119 (Q2) in ‘’Analytical Chemistry’’.

We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to all authors, reviewers, and editors who have contributed to the journal and enabled this next big step!

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Hyungsoon Im has been appointed Associate Editor for Biomedical Sensors Section in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Dr. Hyungsoon Im

Affiliation: Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Website: https://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/hyungsoon_im

Email: im.hyungsoon@mgh.harvard.edu

Interests: Plasmonics, biosensors, diagnostic systems, computational imaging, extracellular vesicles, cancers

Dr. Hyungsoon Im is a principal investigator at the Center for Systems Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities in 2011.

His research focuses on developing next-generation sensing technologies to better understand the make-up of human diseases and the changes associated with disease progression and therapy. His research group exploits uniquely designed nanomaterials and sensors to quantitatively analyze biomarkers and overcome clinical unmet needs. He has co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal publications, which have been cited more than 5000 times (h-index of 31).

We warmly welcome Dr. Hyungsoon Im in his role as Associate Editor for the Biomedical Sensors Section, and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieve more milestones.

The updated citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), published by Clarivate. The recent release of the JCR includes seventy-one MDPI titles. Out of these, 18 titles are newcomers, receiving a first Journal Impact Factor which is based on citation activity in 2019: Actuators, Agriculture, Biology, Biomedicines, Biosensors, Chemosensors, Children, Healthcare, Journal of Fungi, Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM), Land, Life, Magnetochemistry, Membranes, Pharmaceuticals, Photonics, Separations and Toxics.

• Out of the previously listed journals, a total of 72 percent boast an increased Impact Factor.
• 25 journals are ranked among the top 25% of journals in at least one of the categories they are ranked for.
• Articles published in 2019 in MDPI journals account for approximately 17 percent of of articles published in gold Open Access journals covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).
  
  

First Impact Factors

Updated Impact Factors

In April 2020, the Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS) became affiliated to Sensors and Remote Sensing. As part of this collaboration, all members of JSPRS enjoy a discount on the article processing charges (APC) when submitting articles to these two journals.

The Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing was founded in 1962 and is a non-governmental organization devoted to the development of cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and remote sensing, as well as their applications.

JSPRS is a professional organization whose functions are highly relevant to the scope of Sensors and Remote Sensing. We look forward to collaborating with JSPRS and publishing state-of-the-art research from its members in this field.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Davide Brunelli has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the section ‘’Sensor Networks’’ in the journal Sensors.

Affiliation: DII, University of Trento, I-38123 Trento, Italy
Interests: energy harvesting; ultra-low-power sensors; IoT; energy-neutral devices

Website: https://webapps.unitn.it/du/en/Persona/PER0061723/Curriculum

Online Special Issues: "Intelligent Energy Management for Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things"

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/energy_sensors

Dr. Davide Brunelli was born on March 1977. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in University of Bologna, Italy, in 2002 and 2007, respectively.

Dr. Davide Brunelli worked in top research groups and was an independent scientist and educator for 10 years before he moved to University of Trento as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Davide Brunelli’s research interests are in computing systems architecture, with a special emphasis on low-power applications and embedded systems. He is also active in the design of energy-efficient ambient intelligence systems, sensors, and sensor networks. Dr. Davide Brunelli lead a research group with six staff members (post-docs and PhDs) in university of Trento (UNITN). With his collaborators, Dr. Davide Brunelli made several contributions to the field of runtime power management, as well as integrated micro-sensors and energy-neutral, autonomous distributed sensing systems. On these topics, Dr. Davide Brunelli coauthored more than 190 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Davide Brunelli strongly believes in collaborative, multidisciplinary research: his scientific career has an extensive track record of international cooperation with top institutions like ETHZ, EPFL, U. Southampton, Tyndall Inst., Imperial College, University of Zagreb, and Georgia Tech U.

We warmly welcome Dr. Davide Brunelli in his role as Editor-in-Chief of the section “Sensor Networks”, and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieve more milestones.

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