Andrea Spanu, PhD

DIEE – University of Cagliari
Piazza d’Armi – 09123 CAGLIARI (Italy)
Tel. +39 070 675 5769

email: andrea.spanu@edu.unige.it

Andrea Spanu graduated magna cum laude in Bioengineering in 2011 at University of Genova discussing the thesis titled “Design and realization of an organic FET-based sensor for electrophysiological application“.
He joined the NBT group in January 2012 as PhD student in Bioengineering at the Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and System Engineering of the same university working on a project that involved the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Cagliari.
His research interests focus on the integration of organic electronics and electrophysiology, and he is currently working on the realization of an organic FET-based system for electrophysiological applications.
In April 2015 he obtained the PhD degree in Bioengineering discussing the thesis “Organic transistor devices for in-vitro electrophysiological applications”. He is now with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Cagliari as a postdoctoral research assistant.

Pubblications:

Journal Papers

• Demelas, S. Lai, A. Spanu, S. Martinoia, P. Cosseddu, M. Barbaro, A. Bonfiglio, “Charge sensing by Organic Charge-Modulated Field Effect Transistors: application to the detection of bio-related effects”, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2013,1, 3811-3819
• A. Spanu, S. Lai, P. Cosseddu, M. Tedesco, S. Martinoia, A.Bonfiglio, “An organic transistor-based system for reference-less electrophysiological monitoring of excitable cells”, Scientific Reports, 5, 8807, 2015

Conference Proceedings

• A. Spanu, S. Lai, P. Cosseddu, A. Bonfiglio, M. Tedesco, S. Martinoia, “Organic FET device as a novel sensor for cell bioelectrical and metabolic activity recordings,” Neural Engineering (NER), 2013 6th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on , pp.937,940, 6-8 Nov. 2013
• A. Spanu, M. Tedesco, S. Martinoia, S. Lai, P. Cosseddu, A. Bonfiglio, “Bioelectrical and metabolic activity recordings by means of organic field effect transistors”, IEEE AISEM Annual Conference, 2015 XVIII, pp. 1-3, 2015