Organic and Printed Electronics (PDF)

Giovanni Nisato is an independent consultant, enabling companies' innovation strategies. After his PhD in physics and postdoctoral work in nanomaterials, he started his journey in flexible and printed electronics in 1999 at the Philips Research Labs in the Netherlands. He subsequently joined the Swiss Center for Micro Technology and Electronics (CSEM) in 2009, leading and managing their OPE program as well as initiating and managing EU-level research projects. His professional background spans the display, photovoltaics, and healthcare domains. As a member of the Organic and Electronics Association (OE-A), he contributed actively to the roadmapping and encapsulation working groups and served on its board. He is co-author of over 30 peer reviewed publications and 35 patent applications.

Donald Lupo joined the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at Tampere University of Technology (now Tampere University, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences) as professor for electronic materials in 2010 after a diverse career in industrial research and development in functional materials for photonics and electronics. He obtained his PhD in physical chemistry at Indiana University-Bloomington, USA, in 1984 and spent the next 24 years working in chemical, electronic, and display industries and as an independent consultant, working for and with companies such as Hoechst AG, Sony Europe, NTera, Samsung, UPM Kymmene, and Merck. During his industrial career, he led ground-breaking work in organic nonlinear optics, polymer LEDs, solid-state dye solar cells and paper-like displays. He has authored over 100 journal articles and conference proceedings and is inventor in over 40 patents and applications. He now heads the Laboratory for Future Electronics at Tampere University, serves as an external expert in the OLED and printed electronics fields for the European Commission, is a core member of the Organic Electronics