Electronic Components, Technology and Materials
Department of Microelectronics

dr. Clementine Boutry

Assistant Professor
Electronic Components, Technology and Materials (ECTM), Department of Microelectronics

Expertise: Biodegradable technologies, biodegradable functional materials and devices (MEMS, sensors, actuators, and electronics), wireless microsystems

Themes: Biodegradable Technologies, Flexible and Stretchable Electronics, Organs-on-chip

Biography

Welcome to the Biodegradable Technologies group at ECTM !

Our multidisciplinary team aims to develop biodegradable MEMS, a new class of micro-electro-mechanical systems made entirely of biodegradable materials, including sensors, actuators, and electric circuits, for medical and other applications.

Please visit our Biodegradable Technologies website 

For a detailed biography and CV, please visit this page.  

Clementine Boutry has been recognized by a number of awards and grants including: Fellowships and grants:

  • 2025    NWO VIDI grant on heart failure recovery
  • 2023    ERC Starting grant on nerve repair
  • 2023    Delft Health Initiative grant
  • 2022 – 2025    Four times recipient of BioEngineering Institute grants for interfaculty collaborations
  • 2022    Delft University of Technology Synergy Grant
  • 2022    Dutch HTSF 4TU grant Green Sensors
  • 2019    Recipient of the Delft University of Technology Fellowship
  • 2014    European Marie Curie IOF grant on Nerve-Repair, collaboration between Prof. Z. Bao at Stanford University, USA, and prof. S. Lacour at EPFL, CH
  • 2014     Swiss SNSF Postdoc mobility grant on biodegradable sensors, Postdoctoral research at Stanford University, USA

Personal and group awards:

  • 2025    Best Student oral presentation, awarded to Zhengwei Liao (Ph.D. student) at the International Micro and Nano Engineering Conference MNE 2025 in Southhampton, UK
  • 2023    Best poster presentation, awarded to Elena Aprea (Ph.D. student), at Biocube 2023, IT
  • 2020    Innosuisse prize, “Best life sciences project”, Innosuisse Business Concept program, CH
  • 2020    Geneus prize for Life science innovation, Campus Biotech Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2015    2nd Best Student Paper Prize at IEEE SENSORS conference, Busan, Korea
  • 2013    ETH Zurich Medal 2013 for outstanding Ph.D. thesis, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2011    2nd Best Poster Award at MME conference, Toensberg, Norway
  • 2006    C. Johnson Award for Best Student Poster at BEMS conference, Cancún, Mexico
  • 2004    Diploma Thesis awarded with grade 6/6, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland 
     

EE2G1 Electrical Engineering for the Next Generation

BSc 2nd year project

ET4127 Themes in biomedical electronics

BioMEMS, biosensors, bioelectronics, ultrasound, microfluidics, wavefield imaging in monitoring, diagnosis and treatment

ET4289 Integrated circuits and MEMS technology

introduction in the fabrication technologies used for Integrated Circuits and MEMS

Netherlands Organ-on-Chip Initiative

To develop new microphysiological platforms to better predict the effect of medicines, based on a combination of human stem cells and microtechnology.

  1. Biodegradable microwave cavity resonator
    M. J. Bathaei; S. Hashemizadeh; F. A. Cardoso; D. Nikolayev; C. M. Boutry;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters,
    2025.

  2. Towards Sustainable Electronics: Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Fully Biodegradable CMOS Devices
    Laura Cavedoni; Zhengwei Liao; Yukun Lian; Francesco Stallone; Filipe Arroyo Cardoso; Clementine Boutry;
    In Micro Nano Engineering (MNE),
    2025.

  3. Wavelength-selective photodetector for NADH fluorescence detection
    Zhengwei Liao; Laura Cavedoni; Ceren Kutucu; Padmakumar Rao; Clementine Boutry; Filipe Arroyo Cardoso;
    In Micro Nano Engineering (MNE),
    2025.

  4. Recent advances in magnetic polymer composites for BioMEMS: A review
    Zhengwei Liao; Oualid Zoumhani; Clementine M Boutry;
    MDPI Materials,
    Volume 16, Issue 10, 2023.

  5. Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring
    Sarab S. Sethi; Mirko Kovac; Fabian Wiesemüller; Aslan Miriyev; Clementine M. Boutry;
    Nature Ecology & Evolution,
    Volume 6, pp. 1245-1247, 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01824-w

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Last updated: 5 Dec 2025

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