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MDPI, a pioneer in scholarly open access publishing, and the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), Singapore, proudly announce the successful conclusion of the first edition the MDPI Early Career Researcher Awards. The awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to medical and biomedical research, were presented to six exceptional researchers during an awards ceremony held at LKCMedicine HQ Building on 28 November 2024.

Honoring Excellence in Research

The awards recognize exceptional postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. students who have demonstrated outstanding originality, innovation, and impact in their respective fields. We are honored to announce the winners of the 2024 edition:

Early Career Researcher (Postdoc) Award:

• Dr. Theresia Handayani Mina, “Adiposity and Metabolic Health in Asian Populations: An Epidemiological Study Using Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry in Singapore”;
• Dr. Erfan Rezvani Ghomi, “Wound Healing Improvement by Novel Aligned Antimicrobial Nanofibrous 3D Scaffolds”;
• Dr. Yadollah Ranjbar Slamloo, “Functional Alterations of The Prefrontal Circuit Underlying Cognitive Aging in Mice”.

Early Career Researcher (Ph.D.) Award:

• Pritisha Rozario, “Mechanistic Basis for Potassium Efflux-Driven Activation of the Human NLRP1 Inflammasome”;

• Michelle Law Cheok Yien, “Chikungunya Virus Nonstructural Protein 1 is a Versatile RNA Capping and Decapping Enzyme”;
• Yin Ruoyu, “The Use of Digital Mental Health and Wellbeing Tools in Older Adults: A Mixed Method Study”.

Our collaboration highlights a shared commitment to recognizing exceptional talent and research within the academic community, addressing today’s healthcare challenges, and inspiring continued innovation.

Looking Ahead to 2025

Building on the success of the first edition, MDPI and LKCMedicine are excited to announce that the 2025 MDPI Early Researcher Awards will continue to celebrate excellence and innovation in medical research. The next edition promises to expand its scope, introducing new categories and providing even greater recognition for impactful research.

Further details on the 2025 awards, including nomination criteria and timelines, will be shared in the coming months. We remain committed to fostering a culture of research excellence and collaboration within the global scientific community.

Starting in 2024, Sensors (ISSN: 1424-8220) has begun to organize Editorial Board meetings. The Section “Sensing and Imaging” held two Editorial Board meetings on 16 December 2024 and 21 January 2025, respectively. Both meetings were chaired by the Section Editor-in-Chief Prof. Sylvain Girard, with a total of 15 Editorial Board Members being in attendance. These meetings not only served as a platform for in-depth discussions on the journal’s development but also strengthened communication and cooperation among the Editorial Board Members.

During the meeting, various key topics were discussed. The editorial team first presented an overview of the journal’s performance in 2024, with a particular focus on the Section “Sensing and Imaging”. Editorial Board Members actively engaged in the discussion, providing important feedback and suggestions on how to further improve the journal's quality and visibility. One of the key takeaways from the meeting was the discussion on maintaining high manuscript quality and broadening the journal’s impact. To further enhance the journal’s visibility, members discussed initiatives such as inviting leading experts to contribute high-impact review papers, organizing targeted webinars, and exploring conference sponsorship opportunities to strengthen global engagement.

The success of the meeting is expected to bring positive developments to Sensors in 2025. With the support of the Editorial Board, Sensors will continue to grow, enhance its academic quality, and make greater contributions to the scientific community.

Attendee list (in no particular order):

• Prof. Dr. Sylvain Girard (Editor-in-Chief), Laboratoire Hubert Curien, CNRS UMR 5516, Université de Lyon, 42000 Saint-Étienne, France;
• Prof. Dr. Zhe-Ming Lu (Associate Editor), School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;
• Prof. Dr. Bogdan Smolka (Associate Editor), Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland;
• Dr. Stefano Berretti, Media Integration and Communication Center (MICC) & Department of Information Engineering (DINFO), University of Firenze, Via S. Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy;
• Dr. Jean-Baptiste Thomas, Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2806 Gjøvik, Norway;
• Prof. Dr. Sitnik Robert, Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics, Mechatronics Faculty, Warsaw University of Technology, Św. A. Boboli 8, 520 room, 02-525 Warsaw, Poland;
• Prof. Dr. Cosimo Distante, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems “ScienceApp", Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, c/o Dhitech Campus Universitario Ecotekne, Via Monteroni s/n, 73100 Lecce, Italy;
• Dr. Giannis Zacharakis, Laboratory for Biophotonics and Molecular Imaging, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, N. Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton, GR – 70013 Heraklion Crete, Greece;
• Prof. Dr. Yun Zhang, School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen 518017, China;
• Dr. Yitzhak Yitzhaky, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva 84105001, Israel;
• Dr. Mattia Previtali, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 31, 20133 Milan, Italy;
• Prof. Dr. Helmut H. Telle, Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain;
• Prof. Dr. Adrian Barbu, Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32304, USA;
• Prof. Dr. Jochen Lang, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada;
• Dr. Thomas P Karnowski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA;
• Prof. Dr. Son Lam Phung, School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia;
• Dr. Alessandro Artusi, Team Leader of DeepCamera MRG at CYENS, Nicosia CY-1011, Cyprus.

ITNAC 2025 (International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference) will be hybrid, being held both onsite and online. Authors of accepted papers will be provided with an opportunity to participate in ITNAC 2025. We welcome the opportunity to ensure that our community can come together.

ITNAC Focus Topics
With the increasing focus on modelling and simulation in the fields of cyber networks, data mining, cyber security, distributed computing, mobile computing, cognitive computing, cloud computing, computing tools, applications, simulation tools, system performance, and data and computer communications, the demand for high-quality research outcomes has never been greater. ITNAC is the forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss topics related to advanced computing and data communication network technologies, services and applications.

Novel contributions are presented in the form of keynote speeches by international experts, peer-reviewed technical papers, and posters. ITNAC 2025 seeks to address and capture highly innovative and state-of-the-art research from academia, industry, and standardization bodies.

ITNAC 2025 is an international conference and forum for the presentation of research outcomes, covering aspects of the modelling and simulation of distributed, mobile, cognitive, and cloud computing, computer and data communications, local and metropolitan networks, and optical, wired and wireless telecommunication networks and applications.

Contributions are welcome on all advanced research topics, and there is particular interest in the following topics:

1. Mobile and Wireless Networks:

• Modelling and simulation;
• Wireless access and routing protocols;
• Cross-layer design optimization;
• Green, energy efficient and sustainable networking;
• Nature and bio-inspired approaches to networking;
• Network-based mobile positioning and tracking;
• Cognitive and cooperative networking;
• Mobile social and ambient networks;
• Delay-tolerant networks;
• Mobile and wireless broadband access networks;
• 4G/5G/6G networks;
• Wireless sensor networks;
• Vehicular ad hoc networks;
• Cognitive networks;
• Mission-critical communications.

2. Internet Technologies and Applications:

• Network modelling and simulation;
• Software defined networking;
• Smart cities and smart grids;
• Traffic engineering, congestion and admission control;
• Content delivery networking;
• Datacenter networks and cloud computing;
• Sustainable networking;
• Peer-to-peer networks and overlays;
• Novel network-enabled applications and services;
• Future Internet routing schemes or transport concepts;
• IPv6 and future network addressing;
• High performance network virtualization;
• Networking standards and regulations;
• QoS/QoE provisioning and resource management;
• IoT and Cyber physical systems.

3. Network Management, Privacy and Security:

• Next-generation network regulation;
• Broadband network management;
• Intrusion detection and prevention;
• Key distribution and management;
• Large-scale attacks and defence;
• Security and privacy in wireless networks;
• Network security policy, theory and tools;
• Secure mobile agents and mobile code;
• Trusted computing and management;
• Security and privacy;
• Network resiliency and network security;
• Cyber security and cyber crime.

4. Optical Networking and Applications:

• Modelling and simulation;
• Optical switching and routing;
• Optical network on chips;
• Visible light communication;
• Optical Ethernet, EPON/GPON, 100Gb/s Ethernet;
• WDM Access Networks, WDM-PON;
• Wired/wireless convergence, telecom/broadcast;
• Convergence, IPTV;
• Optical wireless access networks, radio-over-fibre;
• Large-capacity optical transmission, WDM, OTDM;
• OFDM and advanced modulation in photonics;
• Energy efficient optical networks.

Conference: The 32nd Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS 2025)
Date: 12–14 February 2025
Location: Jeongseon, Republic of Korea

MDPI will be attending the 32nd Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS 2025), which will be held from 12 to 14 February 2025, as an exhibitor, and we welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest ideas with us.

The conference is organized by the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association. The theme of KCS 2025 is “Future Normal in Semiconductor”. “Future Normal” represents the enduring standards and transformative trends that will define the future, remaining relevant even a decade from now. It embodies the pursuit of groundbreaking insights and influential innovations in semiconductor research, shaping the trajectory of the industry and providing a visionary roadmap for the future.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Electronics;
• Materials;
• AI;
• Applied Nano;
• Applied Sciences;
• Ceramics;
• Chips;
• Electronic Materials;
• Energies;
• Eng;
• Hardware;
• Inventions;
• Micromachines;
• Sensors;
• Technologies.

If you are planning to attend this conference, please do not hesitate to start an online conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person at booth #32 and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: http://kcs.cosar.or.kr/2025/index.jsp.

The editorial team at Sensors extends our heartfelt thanks to the dedicated reviewers whose expertise and commitment have been key to the journal's success in 2024. Last year, Sensors received 38,883 review reports from 17,770 reviewers representing 125 countries and regions worldwide.

To recognize the invaluable time, effort, and attention to detail that each reviewer dedicates, Sensors expresses its sincere gratitude through an annual acknowledgment of reviewers. As a further token of appreciation, all reviewers are eligible for the Outstanding Reviewer Award, which honors their essential role in enhancing the quality of our publications.

We are honored to recognize the reviewers who allowed us to publish their names each year. The names of these reviewers are listed below in alphabetical order by first name: