Luca Santarelli is a first year PhD student. The research he is doing is part of the project “Initial Training Network CONTEST (COllaborative Network for Training in Electronic Skin Technology)” and he is funded by a Marie Curie Early Stage researcher (ESr) scholarship. Born in Lanciano (Italy) the 10th June of 1984, he received a BSc degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2007 at the University of Pisa with the dissertation “Design and implementation of a development platform for serial communication devices built for technical aids for disabled people”. He obtained his MSc in Electronics Engineering in June 2013 at the University of Pisa with the dissertation “Construction of a scanning thermal atomic microscope (SThM) for nanopatterning of advanced functional materials”. From September 2012 until May 2013 he did an internship at University College London (UCL) funded by the European Erasmus Placement project.   In September 2013 he has started his PhD program in the department of Physics at UCL and Prof. Franco Cacialli supervises him. Luca’s research is mainly focused in: ·      Development and characterization of organic devices, such as p-LED, solar cells and sensors, made onto flexible and stretchable supports; ·      Investigation into properties of electrodes made by carbon nanotubes; ·      Thermal and optical lithography of polymer semiconductors through a Scanning Thermal Microscopy (SThM) and a Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy (SNOM).    He can be contacted to:   E-mail:            luca.santarelli.13@ucl.ac.ukTel:                   +44 (0)20 76797390