Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Olfa Kanoun is a referential researcher in impedance spectroscopy, wireless sensors, flexible sensors and smart wearables with applications in battery diagnostics, medical wearables, rehabilitation monitoring, and environmental sensing. Olfa received the Tunisian Presidential Award for Best Tunisian Researcher Abroad (2024) among other awards. Olfa established the IEEE IMS-TC2 Committee on Impedance Spectroscopy and the International Workshop on Impedance Spectroscopy (IWIS), supervised 50 graduate researchers, initiated the TU Chemnitz IEEE Student Branch, and contributed to EU Horizon projects and DFG review boards. Her work bridges academic research with practical applications in Industry 4.0, healthcare, and IoT, emphasizing energy efficiency, real time monitoring, and intelligent human-machine interaction through wearable sensing systems.