Head of Professorship | Professorship | Professorship of Measurements and Sensor Technology | Faculty of Electrical E…

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Olfa Kanoun

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Prof. O. Kanoun researches sensors, sensor systems, and sensor signal processing. She is primarily dedicated to developing intelligent field sensors, wireless sensors, and sensor systems based on nanotechnology and impedance spectroscopy. She specializes in impedance spectroscopy, self-powered wireless sensors, energy harvesting, energy transfer, and flexible polymer sensors based on nanomaterials for physical and chemical measurements. According to an analysis by Ioannidis et al., one of the world's most (top 2%) cited scientists in 2019, 2020, and 2021 ( standardized citation indicators, press release from Chemnitz University of Technology ), and she is cited in the AD Scientific Index.

Research Metrics

Number of publications > 550

H index > 38

Reviews 18

Special issues > 10

Short Biography

Prof. O. Kanoun studied electrical engineering and information technology at the Technical University of Munich until 1995 . From 1996 she worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich and the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich , where she received her doctorate in 2001. Her doctorate on the subject of "calibration-free temperature measurement" at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich was honored with the research prize of the working group of university teachers for measurement technology ( AHMT e. V. ).

From 2002 to 2006 she founded the Impedance Spectroscopy working group at the Institute for Measurement and Automation Technology at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich and habilitated abroad. During this time she created the German IM Chapter of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, which received the "Best Chapter Award" from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society in 2006."

From 2006 to 2007 she worked as a deputy professor for measurement technology at the University of Kassel , from where she accepted the professorship for measurement and sensor technology at the Technical University of Chemnitz on October 1st, 2007. At the beginning she created the " International Workshop on Impedance Spectroscopy (IWIS) ", which has since established itself as an annual international event. In 2021 she was appointed visiting professor at Midsweden University in the field of "Electronics and Embedded Systems".

She initiated the founding of the "IEEE Student Branch" at the Technical University of Chemnitz, which she now serves as a "chancer". Together with her team, she has received a number of awards and honors, such as B. the international honor for excellence in her field on "National Women's Day" on August 13, 2015 in Tunisia and the appointment as "Distinguished Lecturer" of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society in 2016. In 2018 she was awarded the Faculty Course Award honored by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.

Awards

2023: Best Paper Award, 1st International Conference on Hybrid Societies
2023: Best Paper Awards, 20th International Multi-Conference on "Systems, Signals and Devices (SSD)", Mahdia, Tunisia
2022: Technical Award, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
2022, 2021, 2020: Top 2% Scientists in the World, Stanford University
2022-2025: Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
2020-2023: Visiting Professor, University of Central Sweden, Sweden
2020: Outstanding paper, IEEE 6th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), New Orleans, USA
2020: Visiting Professor, University of Le Mans, France
2019: Best Poster Award, IEEE International Symposium on Measurements & Networking (M&N), Catania, Italy
2019: Best Paper Award, 17th International Multi-Conference on "Systems, Signals and Devices (SSD)" Istanbul, Turkey
2018: Faculty Course Development Award of the "IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society"
2018: Best Paper Award (2nd place), IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), Houston, USA
2018: Best Paper Award, International Workshop on Impedance Spectroscopy, Chemnitz, Germany
2016-2019: IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
2016: Best Paper Award, IEEE Workshop Nanotechnology for Instrumentation and Measurement (NanofIM), Chemnitz, Germany
2016: Best Paper Award, 13. Internationale Multi-Konferenz "Systems, Signals and Devices (SSD)", Leipzig, Germany
2015: Auszeichnung für hervorragende Leistungen, "National Day of Women" in Tunisia
2015: Best Paper Award, 12. Internationale Multi-Konferenz "Systems, Signals and Devices (SSD)", Mahdia, Tunisia
2014: Best Poster Award, Internationaler Workshop "Dynamics of Nonlinear Materials Structures in Energy Harvesting", Poland
2014: Best Presentation Award, "10th International Symposium on Electrochemical Impedance Analysis", Bulgaria

Plenaries and Lectures

"Towards Embodiment of Interaction in Hybrid Societies: Sensors and Systems for Gestures Recognition", 20th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, 20-23 February 2023, Mahdia, Tunisia
"Prospects for Smart Sensors in Medical Applications", Diabetes in Saxony, June 24, 2022, Chemnitz
"Prospects of Wireless Energy-Aware Sensors for Smart Factories in the Industry 4.0 Era", 4th International Conference on Applied Automation and Industrial Diagnostics (ICAAID 2022), March 29-31, 2022, Hail, Saoudi Arabia
"Wearables for Embodied Interaction in Hybrid Societies: Technologies, Sensors and Systems", IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD), May 6-10, 2022, Sétif, Algeria
"Symbiosis of energy conversion and system design for efficient energy harvesting solutions", 3rd Energy Harvesting Society Meeting, 4-6. September 2019, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
"Modeling and Signal Processing in Impedance Spectroscopy: An Overview", XVII International Conference on Electrical Bioimpedance, 9-13. June 2019, Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil
"Potentials and Challenges of Embedded Impedimetric Sensors", 19th Heiligenstadt Colloquium, September 24, 2018, Heiligenstadt
"Impedance Spectroscopy: Bridging the gap between Laboratory Measurement and Performant Multifunctional Impedimetric Sensors", IEEE International Conference on Smart materials and Spectroscopy SMS 2018, October 2018, Hammamet, Tunisia
"Impedance of Everything: One method with manifold prospects", July 04, 2018, Spanish Annual Seminar on Automation, Industrial Electronics and Instrumentation (SAAEI), Barcelona
"Methods of Impedance Spectroscopy: Potentials and Challenges", AMA Sensors and Messystems 2018
"Next Generation Wireless Energy Aware Sensors for Internet of Things", IEEE International Multi-Conference on systems, Signals and Devices, March 19, 2018, Hammamet, Tunisia ( Contribution )

Activities in Scientific Panels

Vice Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Co-spokeswoman and member of the advisory board of the Collaborative Research Center SFB-1410 Hybrid Societies
Member of the Board of Trustees of RKW Sachsen e. V
Member of the scientific advisory board in the research association "Next Generation Industrial IoT" (NIIT), Mid Sweden University)
Head of IEEE IMS-TC2 "Impedance Spectroscopy"
Coordinator of the IEEE Chapters in the German Section (2018-2020)
Head of the IEEE chapter "Instrumentation and Measurement" in the German section
Chancelor of the IEEE Student Branch of Chemnitz University of Technology
Member of the working group of university teachers for measurement technology ( AHMT )
Member of the VDE: Association for Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Information Technology ( VDE )
Member of the "Technical Committee 19" (Environmental Measurements) in the "International Measurement Confederation" IMEKO
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Digital Signals and Smart Systems , Inderscience