Dr Maria Smolander

Dr. Maria Smolander is a research team leader of the “Flexible sensors and devices” research team at VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland. Her expertise areas include e.g. sustainable solutions in printed and hybrid electronics and photonics, development and testing of printed indicator and sensor concepts as well as printable power sources. Maria Smolander gained her PhD from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1995 and she has been involved as project manager or WP leader in several EU and national projects dealing with functional solutions and power sources for different applications. Recently she has e.g. lead VTT funded activity on sustainable printed and hybrid electronics and acted as the member of the Executive Board and Work Package leader of Flexible Electronics in Graphene Flagship, the biggest research initiative in Europe.

Talk title: Sustainability and circularity of flexible electronics