Announcements

MDPI will be attending the China Instrument and Control Society Annual Meeting, which is to be held in Shanghai, China, on 27–29 August 2021. The conference invites experts and students who are engaged in the study of instrumentation to participate in an in-depth discussion on the basic research direction, technological innovation, and industrial path of the instrumentation discipline.

The following MDPI journals will be represented at the meeting:

• Sensors;
• Machines;
• ASI;
• Electronics;
• Photonics.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth: C-01. Our delegates are looking forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://meeting.cis.org.cn/.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Youfan Hu has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Electronic Sensors” Section of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Name: Youfan Hu

Email: youfanhu@pku.edu.cn

Affiliation: Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Homepage: http://scholar.pku.edu.cn/youfanhu/home

Research Keywords: nanosensors; flexible integrated circuits; energy harvesting technology; integrated smart sensor systems

Prof. Dr. Youfan Hu received her Ph.D. degree in Physical Electronics from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2008. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Electronics at Peking University. Before joining Peking University, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow and research scientist in Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. Her research interests include high performance nanosensors, carbon nanotube-based integrated circuits, energy harvesting technology, and integrated smart sensor system. Dr. Hu has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles with a citation exceeding 8000. Most of her work is published in top journals, such as Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials and Nano Energy.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Youfan Hu in her role as Section Editor-in-Chief, and we look forward to her leading Sensors to achieving more milestones.

MDPI Books recently released Book Builder, a new online tool to conveniently arrange, design and produce an eBook from any content published in MDPI journals. Book Builder offers two functions: on the one hand (1) Selections, available to every registered user of MDPI; on the other hand (2) Special Issue Reprints, which can be used exclusively by Guest Editors of Special Issues.

Selections

In just a matter of a few clicks, all users are now able to assemble books from MDPI articles and receive instantaneous feedback in the form of a fully produced and compiled book (PDF), which can be downloaded or ordered as print copy. Selections can include any paper published with MDPI, picking and combining content from different journals and special issues.

This way, the user may for example choose to compile an ebook focusing around a particular topic, or assemble articles from a group of others.

We invite you to make yourself familiar with the new tool! The Book Builder can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/books/book_builder.

Special Issue Reprints

The Book Builder allows Guest Editors of MDPI journals to create a reprint from a successfully completed Special Issue or Topical Collection in book format. If you are a Guest Editor for an MDPI journal, you can use the new tool  to create an PDF document which includes all articles published in the Special Issue as well as a book cover and table of contents.

For Special Issues containing a minimum of 5 articles, the Guest Editor can request its publication on the MDPI Book platform. Published reprints are assigned an ISBN and DOI.

In addition to the PDF copy of the Reprint Book, as a token of our gratitude, MDPI offers every Guest Editor one (1) complimentary print copy (via print-on-demand). All contributors benefit from a discount on orders of any additional print copies, to share with colleagues or libraries or others.

Why choose MDPI Books?

In line with our organization's values, MDPI Books publishes all content in open access, promoting the exchange of ideas and knowledge in a globalized world. MDPI Books encompasses all the benefits of open access—high availability and visibility, as well as wide and rapid dissemination. MDPI Books are distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License, meaning as an author you retain the copyright for your work. In addition, with MDPI Books you can complement the digital version of your work with a high-quality printed counterpart.

If you are interested in editing a book volume or series, or have a monograph manuscript to be considered for publication, please submit your proposal online and look at our Information for Authors.

Contact: Laura Wagner, MDPI Books Manager (email)

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Edgar Muñoz has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of “Nanosensors” in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Edgar Muñoz earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Zaragoza in 2000 for his pioneering work in the laser ablation production of carbon nanotubes carried out at the Instituto de Carboquímica ICB-CSIC (Spanish National Research Council CSIC). From 2000 to 2003, he worked in Ray H. Baughman’s group, first at Honeywell Int. (Morristown, NJ), and later at the UTD NanoTech Institute of the University of Texas in Dallas, where he published seminal papers in Nature, Nature Materials, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials. Dr. Edgar Muñoz has been a CSIC staff research scientist since 2005. His primary research interests are in the fabrication of nanocarbon-based multifunctional materials for gas sensor applications, and on supramolecular peptide self-assemblies and nanocomposite materials for optoelectronics (transparent electrodes and fluorescent probes), sensor, nanocarrier (theranostics, drug delivery), and smart textile applications.

We warmly welcome Dr. Edgar Muñoz in his role as Editor-in-Chief of the “Nanosensors” Section, and we look forward to him leading Sensors towards achieving more milestones.

Name: Dr. Edgar Muñoz
Affiliation: Instituto de Carboquímica ICB-CSIC, Miguel Luesma Castán 4, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
Website: http://www.ibernam.net/miembros.php?lang=spa&cat=1&id=55
Email: edgar@icb.csic.es
Interests: carbon nanomaterials; 2D nanomaterials; nanocomposite materials and fibers; bio-nanocomposite materials; sensors

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Sylvain Girard has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Sensing and Imaging” Section in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Prof. Dr. Sylvain Girard is a Full Professor at the Laboratoire Hubert Curien of the University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne. He received his Ph.D. in Optics and Photonics from the University of Saint-Etienne in 2003. He is a recipient of the IEEE NPSS Early Achievement Award and of the IEEE SEE Léon-Nicolas Brillouin Award. His research focuses on developing innovative photonic technologies, with particular interest in optical fibers, fiber-based sensors and image sensors, for operation in radiation-rich environments such as the ones encountered in space, medicine, nuclear industry, high energy physics or fusion-devoted facilities. Today, he is leading the Materials for Optics and Photonics in Extreme Radiation Environments (MOPERE) research team and is one of the founders of the LabH6, a joint research lab between University Jean Monnet, CNRS and the industrial iXblue. He has co-authored more than 230 peer-reviewed journal publications, which have been cited more than 5300 times (h-index of 39).

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Sylvain Girard in taking up his role as Section Editor-in-Chief, and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieving many more milestones.

Name: Prof. Dr. Sylvain Girard

Email: sylvain.girard@univ-st-etienne.fr

Affiliation: Laboratoire Hubert Curien, CNRS UMR 5516, Université Jean Monnet, 42000 Saint-Étienne, France

Interests: fiber sensors; optical sensors; image sensors; optical materials; radiation effects

Homepage: https://laboratoirehubertcurien.univ-st-etienne.fr/en/teams/materials-for-optics-and-photonics-in-extreme-radiation-environments.html

In June of this year, MDPI will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its foundation. To mark this significant milestone, we have created a 25th Anniversary page on our website that evokes the development of our company over the past quarter-century.

MDPI has been a pioneer of Open Access publishing ever since the concept was first created.

In a wide-ranging interview, our CEO Delia Mihaila reflects on the company’s 25th anniversary and its contribution to the world of scientific publishing.

Delia considers how MDPI has evolved since starting life in 1996 as a visionary ‘project’ run out of an apartment in Basel, Switzerland, by Dr. Shu-Kun Lin. A chemist who was passionate about the long-term preservation of rare chemical sample, Dr. Lin was determined to help scholars publish their findings as quickly as possible and make their research results available to as wide a readership as possible worldwide. That determination remains unchanged 25 years later.

Today, MDPI is an international organization with over 4,000 employees based on three continents and in ten countries, and ranks among the world's top four academic publishers.

MDPI's mission is to accelerate access to new scientific research, delivering insight faster for researchers worldwide. Read more here about the company's remarkable success story and what the Open Access publishing model can offer the global scientific community.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Mengdao Xing has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Radar Sensors” Section of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Dr. Mengdao Xing received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Xidian University, China in 1997 and 2002, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor at the National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University. He is also the Deputy Dean of the Academy of Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Xidian University. His current research interests are synthetic aperture radar (SAR), inversed synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), sparse signal processing and microwave remote sensing. He has written or co-written more than 200 peer reviewed scientific journal papers. He also has authored or co-authored two books about SAR signal processing. His research has received 8660 citations and an H-index of 46. He has achieved over 40 authorized China patents. He is an IEEE Fellow.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Mengdao Xing in taking up his role as Section Editor-in-Chief, and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieve many more milestones.

Name: Prof. Dr. Mengdao Xing

Email: xmd@xidian.edu.cn

Affiliation: National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China

Interests: synthetic radar radar (SAR) imaging; inverse synthetic radar radar (SAR) imaging; interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) imaging; ground moving target detection and imaging; bistatic synthetic aperture radar (BiSAR) imaging; polarization synthetic aperture radar (POL-SAR) imaging; micro- and nano-synthetic aperture radars (MiniSAR and NanoSAR); synthetic aperture imaging lidar (SAIL); high-speed radar imaging data acquisition system; real-time radar imaging processor

Homepage: https://mobile.xidian.edu.cn/info/1377/5123.htm

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Hyungsoon Im has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the ”Biomedical Sensors“ Section in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Dr. Hyungsoon Im

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

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

Email: im.hyungsoon@mgh.harvard.edu

Interests: diagnostics; biosensors; plasmonics; point-of-care; cancers; extracellular vesicles; analytical chemistry

Dr. Hyungsoon Im is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2011. He is a recipient of the NIH Pathway to Independence Award and NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Fellowship from the National Cancer Institute. His research focuses on developing next-generation sensing technologies to better understand the make-up of human diseases and changes associated with disease progression and therapy. His laboratory exploits have 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 6000 times (h-index of 32).

We warmly welcome Dr. Hyungsoon Im in his role as Editor-in-Chief of the “Biomedical Sensors” Section, and we look forward to him leading Sensors towards achieving more milestones.

At MDPI, we strive to make your online publication process seamless and efficient. To achieve this, our team is continuously developing tools and features to make the user experience useful and convenient.

As the number of academic papers continues to grow, so does the need to analyze and work with them on a large scale. This prompted us to design a new feature aimed at helping researchers find journals that are relevant to their publication by matching their abstract topic. In this regard, we designed a similarity model that automatically identifies the most suitable academic journals for your paper.

We are pleased to introduce Journal Selector, a new feature that measures similarity in academic contexts. By simply entering the title and/or abstract into our Journal Selector, the author will see a list of the most related scientific journals published by MDPI. This method helps authors select the correct journals for their papers, highlighting the time of publication and citability.

The methodology is known as representation learning, where words are represented as vectors in hyperspace. Representation helps us differentiate between different concepts within articles, and in turn, helps us identify similarities between them.

We used an advanced machine learning model to better capture the semantic meanings of words. This helps the algorithm make better predictions by leveraging scientific text representation. In turn, this ensures high precision, helping authors decide which journal they should submit their paper to.

The goal is to support authors to publish their work in the most suitable journal for their research, as fast as possible, accelerating their career progress.

Contact: Andrea Perlato, Head of Data Analytics, MDPI (email)

In November 2020, the Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (SEIB) became affiliated to Sensors and Entropy. As part of this collaboration, all members of SEIB enjoy a discount on the article processing charges (APC) when submitting articles to the journals.

The Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (SEIB) is a non-profit organization representing the biomedical engineering community in Spain. Its mission is to improve the health, wealth, and wellbeing of Spanish citizens through the application of biomedical engineering (BME).

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