Sébastien Pecqueur

--- In a Nutshell... ---

My research focuses on organic semiconductors and conducting polymers for future-emerging sensing applications to rival the abilities of our own senses: With two aims, studying their intrinsic sensitivity for chemistry and molecules to enable such a concept as an integrated electronic nose, and unraveling their potential for evolutionary electronics as a bioinspiration for tomorrow's microelectronic manufacturing.

--- When Data make Sense... ---

Sensing is the mean to extract information from our environment: it is the primary function of sensors and analyzers, giving physical meaning to data. Because we process data on computers governed by electronics, some types of environmental information are easier to capture than others. An environment's chemistry is often more complex to decypher than its physics, as the equations governing conventional conductors are harder to exploit as predictive models. Building phenomenological models typically requires more computational resources and exploitable data. This contrast sharply with our senses operating on ourselves as biological machines, where chemistry drives the information processing in our very core and fuse every information bits during our whole life.