Jordi Colomer Farrarons

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0001-9537-5363
Knowledge area: Tecnologia Electrònica

Research group: Nanobioengineering and Bioelectrònics (SIC-BIO)

Teaching Innovation Groups: IP IDEES Innovació Docent en Ensenyament d'Enginyeries

Contact Information
Department of Electronic and Biomedical Engineering
Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica y Biomédica, Facultat de Física, C/Martí i Franquès 1
934021147
jcolomerf(a)ub.edu

Academic training

Doctor en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas . Facultad de Física (UB) . 22/07/2010 . (Ph.D.)

Teaching imparted

Dispositius Mèdics: Disseny i Regulacions de Mercat (University Master's Degree) - Innovació i Emprenedoria en Enginyeria Biomèdica - Universidad de Barcelona.
Projectes (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Electrónica de Telecomunicación - Universidad de Barcelona.
Projectes d'Enginyeria (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Biomédica(1) - Universidad de Barcelona.
Equips i Instruments Biomèdics (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Biomédica(1) - Universidad de Barcelona.
Disseny i Síntesi de Sistemes Digitals (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Electrónica de Telecomunicación - Universidad de Barcelona.

Research interests

Circuits integrats low-voltage low-power per recuperació d'energia
Integrated electronics for biomedical applications. Design of low-power, low-noise integrated circuits and techniques on biomedical applications, which cover from bio-potential amplifiers, bio-sensor interface circuits, micro stimulators, and signal conditioning blocks
Harvesting and Scavenging Circuits for Low Power Low Voltage Applications

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Yaiza Montes Cebrián . (2020) . Electronics Systems fo Bio-Sensor Platforms (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.
Albert Álvarez Carulla . (2021) . Energy Harvesting Platforms for Smart-Power Sensing Applications: from Structural Health Monitoring to Bio-Engineering Applications (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.

Participation in projects

Dispositivo Autónomo Desechable para el Diagnóstico de la Diabetes . 2014 - 2016 . Ref.TEC2013-48506-C3-3-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Pedro Luis Miribel Catala
Smart multifunctional architecture & technology for energy-aware wireless sensors . 2013 - 2016 . Ref.PCIN-2013-069 . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Pedro Luis Miribel Catala
Circuitos de Gestión de Recolección de Energia para Aplicaciones de Baja Tensión y Baja Potencia . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.TEC2016-78284-C3-3-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Pedro Luis Miribel Catala
HematoTEST: Dispositiu per a la detecció d'hematòcrit (eritròcits) i la seva utilització en diagnòstic de patologies mèdiques relacionades amb la seva disfunció 2018 LLAV 00090 . 2019 - 2019 . Ref.2018 LLAV 00090 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Jordi Colomer Farrarons
Plataformas Sensoras Inteligentes Auto-Alimentadas para la industria 4.0 . 2020 - 2023 . Ref.PID2019-110142RB-C22 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Pedro Luis Miribel Catala; Jordi Colomer Farrarons
MAQA: Monitorització Autònoma de la Qualitat de l'Aigua. 2019PROD00027 . 2020 - 2022 . Ref.2019PROD00027 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Manuel Puig Vidal

Journal Publications

Colomer-Farrarons, J.; Miribel-Catala, P.; Saiz-Vela, A.; Samitier, J. (2011). A Multiharvested Self-Powered System in a Low-Voltage Low-Power Technology. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 58(9), pp. 4250 - 4263 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2010.2095395 . ISSN: 0278-0046
Esquivel, J.P.; Colomer-Farrarons, J.; Castellarnau, M.; Salleras, M.; del Campo, F.J.; Samitier, J.; Miribel-Català, P.; Sabaté, N. (2012). Fuel cell-powered microfluidic platform for lab-on-a-chip applications: Integration into an autonomous amperometric sensing device. Lab On a Chip(12), pp. 4232 - 4235 . https://doi.org/10.1039/c2lc40946a . ISSN: 1473-0197
del Moral, B.; Azpeitia, J.M.Á.; Farrarons, J.C.; Català, P.L.M.; Corbera, A.H.; Juárez, A.; Samitier, J. (2014). Towards Point-of-Use Dielectrophoretic Methods: A New Portable Multiphase Generator for Bacteria Concentration. Micro and Nanosystems, 6(2), pp. 71 - 78 . https://doi.org/10.2174/187640290602141127113559 . ISSN: 1876-4029
Montes-Cebrián, Y.; Álvarez-Carulla, A.; Colomer-Farrarons, J.; Puig-Vidal, M.; López- Sánchez, J.; Miribel-Català, P. (2018). A Fuel Cell-based adaptable Self-Powered Event Detection platform enhanced for biosampling applications. Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS) . https://doi.org/10.1109/DCIS.2018.8681482 . ISSN: 2471-6170
Muñoz-Martínez, A. I.; González, O. I.; Colomer-Farrarons, J.; Rodríguez-Delgado, J. M.; Ávila-Ortega, A.; Dieck-Assad, G. (2018). Electrochemical Instrumentation of an Embedded Potentiostat System (EPS) for a Programmable-System-On-a-Chip. Sensors, 18(12), p. 4490 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1424-8220
Graciano Dieck-Assad; Juan M Hinojosa-Olivares; Jordi Colomer-Farrarons (2020). Study of the effectiveness of interactive videos in applied electronics courses. International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM), 14, pp. 983 - 1001 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-020-00689-2 . ISSN: 1955-2513

Patents, Software and Database

Circuito integrado com medios internos para la medición de la corriente de carga (SPAIN, 17/04/2012)
Method, apparatus and micro-rheometer for measuring rheological properties of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids (European Patent Convention Countries, 13/05/2016)
Self-powered system and method for power extraction and measurement of energy-generator units (Patent Cooperation Treaty Countries, 16/07/2020)
Self-powered device and method for measuring a parameter of a sensing power cell (European Patent Convention Countries, 17/12/2020)