Laura Becerra-Fajardo

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Post-Doctoral Fellow
laura.becerra@upf.edu
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Laura studied Electronic Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, holding a PAES scholarship - Best High School Graduates 2002, and received her diploma in 2008. In 2012 she received her diploma of MSc in Biomedical Engineering at Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, benefited by a Colfuturo PCB scholarship. Laura finished her PhD at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies - UPF, in 2016 holding a PRC fellowship.

After completing her PhD, Laura joined the Translational Research & Knowledge Management team (R&D) of Otto Bock (Germany), where she worked in the European H2020 research project Intuitive Natural Prosthesis UTilization - INPUT. Laura is currently a Post-Doctoral fellow at UPF working at the ERC Project "Electronic AXONs: wireless microstimulators based on electronic rectification of epidermically applied currents", in the European H2020 project EXTEND, and the ERC Proof of Concept project "SENSO-eAXON". She is currently the project leader of IntraSenso-eAXON, an entrepreneurial action supported by CaixaResearch Validate program from "la Caixa" Foundation. Her work focuses mainly in exploring and designing implantable medical devices capable of performing electrical stimulation and sensing, and to develop entrepreneurial actions to bring this technology to the market. .

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M. Tudela-Pi, Becerra-Fajardo, L., García-Moreno, A., Minguillon, J., and Ivorra, A., “Power Transfer by Volume Conduction: In Vitro Validated Analytical Models Predict DC Powers above 1 mW in Injectable Implants”, IEEE Access, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 37808-37820, 2020. (1.27 MB)
S. Malik, Castellví, Q., Becerra-Fajardo, L., Tudela-Pi, M., García-Moreno, A., Baghini, M. Shojaei, and Ivorra, A., “Injectable Sensors Based on Passive Rectification of Volume-Conducted Currents”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 867-878, 2020.
M. Tudela-Pi, Becerra-Fajardo, L., and Ivorra, A., “Powering Implants by Galvanic Coupling: A Validated Analytical Model Predicts Powers Above 1 mW in Injectable Implants”, in World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2018. IFMBE Proceedings, Prague, Czech Republic, 2018, vol. 68/3, pp. 23-26. (272.06 KB)
L. Becerra-Fajardo and Ivorra, A., “First Steps Towards an Implantable Electromyography (EMG) Sensor Powered and Controlled by Galvanic Coupling”, in World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2018. IFMBE Proceedings, Prague, Czech Republic, 2018, vol. 68/3, pp. 19-22. (438.15 KB)
L. Becerra-Fajardo, Tudela-Pi, M., and Ivorra, A., “Two-Port Networks to Model Galvanic Coupling for Intrabody Communications and Power Transfer to Implants”, in 2018 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2018, pp. 407-410. (590.36 KB)
L. Becerra-Fajardo, Schmidbauer, M., and Ivorra, A., “Demonstration of 2 mm thick microcontrolled injectable stimulators based on rectification of high frequency current bursts”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 1343 - 1352, 2017. (969.52 KB)
L. Becerra-Fajardo, Garcia-Arnau, R., and Ivorra, A., “Injectable Stimulators Based on Rectification of High Frequency Current Bursts: Power Efficiency of 2 mm Thick Prototypes”, in Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2016), October 18-21, 2016, Segovia, Spain, Cham, 2017. (941.97 KB)
L. Becerra-Fajardo and Ivorra, A., “Charge Counter for Performing Active Charge-Balance in Miniaturized Electrical Stimulators”, in 6th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering SE - 64, 2015, vol. 45, pp. 256 - 259. (393.72 KB)
L. Becerra-Fajardo and Ivorra, A., “In Vivo Demonstration of Addressable Microstimulators Powered by Rectification of Epidermically Applied Currents for Miniaturized Neuroprostheses”, Plos One, vol. 10, no. 7, 2015. (957.02 KB)
L. Becerra-Fajardo and Ivorra, A., “Bidirectional communications in wireless microstimulators based on electronic rectification of epidermically applied currents”, in Neural Engineering (NER), 2015 7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on, 2015. (738.6 KB)

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