Pedro Luis Miribel Català

Pedro Luis Miribel Català

Associate professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-2715-6684
Scopus Author ID: 9638411500
Researcher ID: M-9303-2014
Knowledge area: Electrònica

Research group: Nanobioengineering and Bioelectrònics (SIC-BIO)

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

Contact Information
Department of Electronic and Biomedical Engineering
C/Martí Franquès, 1
934021141
peremiribelcatala(a)ub.edu

Academic training

Ciencias Físicas . Facultad de Físicas (U.B.) . 1994 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Física . Facultat de Física (U.B.) . 29/09/2000 . (Ph.D.)

Teaching imparted

Electrònica de Potència i Control (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Electrónica de Telecomunicación - Universidad de Barcelona.
Electrònica Aplicada (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Biomédica(1) - Universidad de Barcelona.
Tecnologies per a Punts d'Atenció (University Master's Degree) - Innovació i Emprenedoria en Enginyeria Biomèdica - Universidad de Barcelona.
Disseny Analògic Integrat (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Electrónica de Telecomunicación - Universidad de Barcelona.
Anàlisi de Circuits Electrònics (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Electrónica de Telecomunicación - Universidad de Barcelona.

Research interests

Circuitos Convertidores DC-DC integrados. Aplicaciones en baja tension-bajoconsumo.Equipos Portables. Power Management
Diseño de circuitos Analógico-Digitales baja tensión y baja potencia (low voltage and low power)
Harvesting and Scavenging Circuits for Low Power Low Voltage Applications
Self Powered Devices. Smart Sensors.Structural Health Monitoring
Self Powered Devices. Point of Care Devices. Lab on a Chip Devices. Disposable biodetectors

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Montes Cebrián, Yaiza . (2020) . Electrochemical Plug-and-Power e-readers for Point-of-Care Applications (Ph.D. Thesis) . Barcelona.
Álvarez Carulla, Albert . (2021) . Energy Harvesting Solutions for Self-Powered Devices: From Structural Health Monitoring to Biomedical Applications (Ph.D. Thesis) . Barcelona.

Participation in projects

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
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
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
Doctorats industrials 2019. Empresa: Onalabs Inno‐hub SL . 2019 - 2022 . Ref.2019DI029 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Pedro Luis Miribel Catala
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

Yaiza Montes-cebrián; Lorena del Torno-de Román; Albert Álvarez-Carulla; Jordi Colomer-Farrarons; Shelley D. Minteer; Neus Sabaté; Pere Ll. Miribel-Català; Juan Pablo Esquivel (2018). 'Plug-and-Power' Point-of-Care diagnostics: A novel approach for self-powered electronic reader-based portable analytical devices. Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 118, pp. 88 - 96 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2018.07.034 . ISSN: 0956-5663
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
Juanola-Feliu, E.; Colomer-Farrarons, J.; Miribel-Català, P.; Samitier, J.; Valls-Pasola, J. (2012). Market challenges facing academic research in commercializing nano-enabled implantable devices for in-vivo biomedical analysis (en prensa). Technovation, 32(3-4), pp. 193 - 204 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2011.09.007 . ISSN: 0166-4972
del Moral Zamora, B.; Álvarez Azpeitia, JM.; Oliva Brañas, AM.; Colomer-Farrarons, J.; Castellarnau M, Miribel-Català, PL.; Homs-Corbera, A.; Juárez, A.; Samitier, J. (2015). Dielectrophoretic concentrator enhancement based on dielectric poles for continuously flowing samples. Electrophoresis, 36(13), pp. 1405 - 1413 . https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.201400433 . ISSN: 0173-0835
Juanola, E.; Miribel, P.; Páez, C.; Colomer, J.; González-Piñero, M.; Samitier, J. (2014). Design of a Customized multipurpose nano-enabled implantable system for in-vivo theranostics. Sensors, 14(10), pp. 19275 - 19306 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1424-8220

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)