Doctoral thesis success: Halldór Kárason
Congratulations to Halldór Kárason on successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled “Towards wearable biomechanics: Development of a nanocomposite sensor and physics-informed neural networks for muscle-tendon force estimation” on 5th August, 2025. Hálldor carried out his doctoral project at the Department of Information and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, University of Salerno, Italy, supervised by Professor Francesco Tortorella (main supervisor) and in co-tutelle with Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini.
The project was carried out in the frame of the Doctoral Training Network Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions “PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR” (P4FiT), of which Prof. Boccaccini was a principal investigator, and was coordinated by Prof. Helder Santos (University of Groeningen, NL).
The defense was conducted online, the chair of the committee was Professor Pierluigi Ritrovato (Univ. of Salerno). Prof. Boccaccini highlighted the highly interdisciplinary character of Hálldor’s project, which covered research in the areas of materials science, biomechanics and sensor technology with focus on muscle-tendon force monitoring using wearable technology. The results obtained by Hálldor represent an important contribution to the field of sensor technology and muscle-tendon force monitoring. Several papers have been already published resulting from his thesis, for example in the field of nanocomposite sensors [1]. Many congratulations to Hálldor for the successful defense of his doctoral thesis. We wish Hálldor all the best in his future career.
[1] H. Kárason, et al., Flexible AgNW/PDMS nanocomposite for strain and pressure sensing, Mater. Lett. 377 (2024) 137456.
