John A Rogers

Wonderful dinner last night with the leadership team at the IPLAC - Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago. This get-together was in the context of my selection to receive the 2025 Creator of the Year award from the IPLAC, based on our patent application activity…

Very pleased to take part in two virtual presentations today. The first was the IEEE WPT PowerCast, as the Vodcast Episode 6: Near Field Communications and Wireless Power Transfer in Medical Devices. The discussion, lasting 1 h and 15 min, covered various aspects of my career,…

Thanks to Dr. @TheMkrdichians of the Northwestern Advisory Council for Clinical Research, an organization that serves the Northwestern clinical research community on the Chicago campus, including Northwestern Medicine (@NorthwesternU and Northwestern Memorial Hospital), the…

That was quite an experience! – amazing events spread over three days at the @royalsociety in London, concluding with induction as a fellow. Day one involved short presentations by each inductee to the entire group – spanning diverse topics in medicine, science and engineering.…

Very amusing coincidence -- on the day of my arrival in London for ceremonies related to induction into the Royal Society, the main newspaper in the UK -- @thetimes -- prints a story highlighting our work on wearable skin flux sensors and sweat microfluidic devices. Written by…

I am excited to announce the John Rogers / Yonggang Huang Medal, a new annual award sponsored by the International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES), an organization founded in 1986 to promote international work in computational and…

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Madsen on his appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at @Baylor! Ken has been an incredibly important part of our group as a postdoctoral fellow over the last three years, joining us after finishing his PhD in Chemistry…

Thanks to Prof. Myung Jhon (@CarnegieMellon), Prof. Elias Towe (@CarnegieMellon) and Prof. Inhee Lee (@PittTweet) for the invitation to deliver the opening keynote speech (virtually) at the 19th Korea-U.S. Forum on Nanotechnology, Sustainability in Semiconductor Manufacturing by…

Out today in Nature Communications, our paper, titled “Adaptive Electronics for Photovoltaic, Photoluminescent and Photometric Methods in Power Harvesting for Wireless Wearable Sensors,” on skin-integrated wearables that exploit and autonomously manage multiple forms of energy…

Very much appreciated the opportunity to deliver a keynote lecture and to engage in a Q&A session (both virtual) at the 105th Annual Meeting of the British Association of Dermatologists earlier this morning. My presentation, titled ‘Wireless, Soft Sensors in Dermatology,’ covered…

For the last day of my trip, I’m back in Singapore for the ICMAT meeting (the 12th Annual International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, organized by the Materials Research Society of Singapore) for a partial day of activities, before my flight back to Chicago…

Day four of my trip began with an impressive plenary talk by Prof. Takao Someya followed by a rapid-fire set of short presentations and associated panel discussions here at an amazing facility in Bintan, Indonesia, spanning all key areas of research in flexible/stretchable…

Day three in Singapore began with a morning symposium at @NTUsg (day two of the iFLEX conference), followed a ferry ride to Bintan, Indonesia for dinner events and the kickoff for the PacificFlex conference. At NTU, I followed excellent presentations by Prof. Takao Someya and…

Delighted to announce that I accepted (without change to my faculty appointments here at @NorthwesternU) an appointment as Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST @kaistpr, as announced in the Korean press today. I’m very honored to…