Santiago Marco Colás

Santiago Marco Colás is a Full Professor in the Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Barcelona and leads the Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems group at IBEC. His research focuses on advanced computational methods for chemical sensor arrays, gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (GC-IMS), mass spectrometry, and NMR data analysis in metabolomics, biomedical diagnostics, and environmental monitoring.

• Developed open-source tools like GCIMS R-package for untargeted IMS data analysis
• Innovated drone-based chemical sensing systems for indoor/outdoor odor mapping
• Created IoT-enabled respiratory impedance devices with mobile app control
• Explored machine olfaction algorithms for biomarker discovery in colorectal cancer and COPD
• Investigated dielectric excitation methods for metal oxide semiconductor sensors

His recent work addresses real-time odor quantification in wastewater plants, predictive modeling for postoperative complications, and low-cost IoT respiratory monitoring. Publications span sensor signal processing, calibration transfer techniques, and collaborative STEM education initiatives.