Rodolphe Koehly
Post Doc on Conductive Papers, McGill university, CA and Pagora INP-Grenoble, FR
I am both an engineer in Paper and Printing Science and a doctor in Music Technologies.
For the last six years now, I have been developping electronics components made of organic wooden substrates and applied this technologes to human-computer interaction.
This involved to learn how to use a variety of microcontrollers and their programming environments to aquire sensors data onto a computer, and then exploit dedicated softwares such as labview or Max to generate multimedia events in function of sensors actuation.
I have interests in new and sustainable technologies, and I have been leading research projects around this subject managaing over 300,000 CA$ fundings from various organisations such as the MDEIE in Québec, the Government of Canada, the Rotary International,or else Hexagram (Montreal) since 2006.
Particularly, I have developped paper contact sensors enabling to sense multiple user actions using renewable and reyclable materials (see my website www.papierlogik.com for more information). I am interested in promoting this technology and finding both research and industrial partners that would expoit it in their current applications.
21 contacts2012 - 2012Optimisation of the laboratory production of electrically conductive papers for its further production on an in-line paper machine and the massproduction of paper--based contact sensors and arrays of sensitive surfaces.
Applications to smart packaging, medical devices, house-automation and interactive books.
2009 - 2011Study of the use of a laboratory in-line paper machine from Pagora to produce various types of conductive papers to be used for mass production of contact sensors or arrays of sensitive surfaces.
Characterisation of resulting paper sensors with dedicated laboratory equipment (range, repeatability, hysteresis, drift, time-response, life-time, moisture sensitivity...)
2006 - 20115 years research project (Master + PhD) involving for about 500,000 CA$ funding for the development of non-industrial technologies to produce custom contact-sensors.
Developpement of research teams on the fields of paper chemistry and materials science both in Canada and France for laboratory production and study of conductive paper.
Creation of complimentarry research tems to exploit the resulting papers to produce sensors used in over 30 applications since 2006 (music, arts, security, house-automation, medical devices,...)
2005 - 20052003 - 2004