Mahmoud Tavakoli
Full Professor - Departamento de Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores
Mahmoud Tavakoli is professor of Electrical engineering of the University of Coimbra. He is the principle investigator several national, CMU-Portugal and EU funded projects on soft, stretchable and printed micro electronics, including an ERC Consolidator Grant. Tavakoli Received his PhD in Automation and Instrumentation from University of Coimbra, Portugal in 2010. He is the author of more than 100 publications as patents, book, book chapters, Journal article, and conferences. His current research areas include Stretchable Electronics, Printed Electronics, Bio-monitoring, Soft Robots, Grasping, Tactile sensing , smart plastic, smart textile, and medical robots. He was the recipient of the European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant, Facebook Living Lab award on sustainable soft-matter electronics, International Autodesk award for body-actuated soft prosthetic hands, and European EIT-Health prize for innovation in the health sector (ICT for Health).
mahmoud@isr.uc.pt
