Imagine wearable sensors which you place on your skin – this band-aid like patch could measure your body parameters offering you a window to your health. Imagine nearable sensors embedded into a mattress cover which can non-invasively track a person’s presence, position, and posture in bed overnight in residential aged care facilities.
These nearable and wearable sensors are conformal, un-feelable and unbreakable. In this presentation Professor Madhu Bhaskaran will present the research which has led to these technologies, the challenges overcome, and collaborative efforts with industry and design partners which is paving the path for their commercialisation.

Biography
Professor Madhu Bhaskaran is a multi-award winning electronics engineer and innovator. She co-leads the Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group at RMIT University which she established in 2010. She is the Deputy Director (Research) for the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Connected Sensors for Health. She is also node leader and Chief Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems.
Madhu has been awarded the 2020 Frederick White Medal by the Australian Academy of Science, the 2018 Batterham Medal by ATSE, and the 2017 Australian Museum Macquarie University Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher. She is a passionate advocate for diversity, and is co-chair of Women in STEMM Australia.