Pedro Alpuim is group leader in 2D Materials and Devices at INL. He works on CVD and 2D materials device fabrication, with emphasis in biosensors. Graphene devices, in particular, are developed to detect biomarkers in several areas of medicine and for environmental monitoring. Optoelectronic devices for light detection and solar energy conversion are also within his research interests. P. Alpuim is a professor in the Physics Department of the University of Minho (UM), where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the physics of electronic devices, nanotechnology, and clean-room fabrication.

He received a PhD degree in Materials Engineering from IST Lisbon in 2003, working in amorphous silicon thin film technology for flexible electronics, and a Master degree in Physics from the UM in 1995.  He installed a thin-film laboratory at UM where he focused on fabrication of thin-film silicon solar cells, piezoresistive sensor arrays for health care, and thermoelectric junctions of telluride compounds for micro-cooling and energy scavenging. He published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has h-index=19.

• C. S. Vieira, J. Borme, G. Machado Jr., F. Cerqueira, P. P. Freitas, V. Zucolotto, N. M. R. Peres and P. Alpuim
  Graphene field-effect transistor array with integrated electrolytic gates scaled to 200 mm
  J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 28 (2016) 08530

• Asgarifar, H. L. Gomes, A. Mestre, P. Inácio, J. Bragança, J. Borme, G. Machado Jr., F. Cerqueira and P. Alpuim
  Electrochemically gated graphene field-effect transistor for extracellular cell signal recording, In: Camarinha-Matos L.M., Falcão A.J., Vafaei N., Najdi S. (eds)
  Technological Innovation for Cyber-Physical Systems. DoCEIS 2016. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 470. Springer, pp 558-564.

• Marins, M. Warzecha, S. Micharda, J. Hotovy, W. Böttler, P. Alpuim, F. Finger
  Flexible n-i-p thin film silicon solar cells on polyimide foils with textured ZnO:Ga back reflector
  Thin Solid Films 571 (A) (2014) 9-12

• Majee, M. F. Cerqueira, D. Tondelier, B. Geffroy, Y. Bonnassieux, P. Alpuim, J. E. Bourée
  Flexible organic–inorganic hybrid layer encapsulation for organic opto-electronic devices
  Progress in Organic Coatings 80 (2015) 27–32

• Alpuim, J. Gaspar, P. Gieschke, C. Ehling, J. Kistner, N. J. Gonçalves, M. I. Vasilevskiy, O. Paul
  Study of the piezoresistivity of doped nanocrystalline silicon thin films
  J. Appl. Phys. 109 (12) 123717 (2011)