Dr. Valeria Nico is a postdoctoral research fellow in the area of energy harvesting at the Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, where she leads the activities on vibrational energy harvesting for powering sustainably IoT sensors. She graduated in Physics from the University of Perugia (Italy) and obtained her PhD from the University of Limerick (Ireland). Since 2017 she works at the Bernal Institute. Her research interests encompass the design, modelling and characterisation of electromagnetic and piezoelectric devices for vibrational energy harvesting to provide an alternative renewable source of energy to IoT sensors. She is currently an associated investigator in WG02 Sustainable IoT of the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) CONNECT Centre where she is leading a project on the development of novel vibrational energy harvesting techniques. Dr. Nico is involved in various national projects, and she has authored many international publications and two patent applications. Dr. Nico also presented to several international conferences and serves as a reviewer for major journals in the energy harvesting area.
Professional Activities
Award
2022 - Bernal Postdoc of the year
Education
2019 University of Limerick - Graduate Diploma
2018 University of Limerick - PhD
2013 Universitá di Perugia - Master Degree
2011 Universitá di Perugia, Italy - Bachelor Degree
Nico, Valeria and Dalton, Eric (2021) Modelling and experimental characterisation of a magnetic shuttle pump for microfluidic applications.
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical :112910-
Nico, Valeria and Frizzell, Ronan and Punch, Jeff (2020) The identification of period doubling in a nonlinear two-degree-of-freedom electromagnetic vibrational energy harvester.
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics :2973-2980
Rodriguez, Juan Carlos and Nico, Valeria and Punch, Jeff (2019) A vibration energy harvester and power management solution for battery-free operation of wireless sensor nodes.
Sensors :3776-
Nico, Valeria and Punch, Jeff (2019) Two-degree-of-freedom velocity-amplified vibrational energy harvester for human motion applications.
The European Physical Journal Special Topics :1647-1657
Nico, Valeria and Frizzell, Ronan and Punch, Jeff (2017) Nonlinear analysis of a two-degree-of-freedom vibration energy harvester using high order spectral analysis techniques.
Smart Materials and Structures :045029-
Nico, Valeria and Boco, Elisabetta and Frizzell, Ronan and Punch, Jeff (2016) A high figure of merit vibrational energy harvester for low frequency applications.
Applied Physics Letters :013902-
Frizzell, Ronan and Kelly, Gerard and Cottone, Francesco and Boco, Elisabetta and Nico, Valeria and O’Donoghue, Declan and Punch, Jeff (2016) Experimental characterisation of dual-mass vibration energy harvesters employing velocity amplification.
Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures :2810-2826
Boco, Eliabetta and Nico, Valeria and O'Donoghue, Declan and Frizzell, Ronan and Kelly, Gerard and Punch, Jeff (2015) 2015 International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS).
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Nico, Valeria and O’Donoghue, Declan and Frizzell, Ronan and Kelly, Gerard and Punch, Jeff (2014) Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems.
O’Donoghue, Declan and Nico, Valeria and Frizzell, Ronan and Kelly, Gerard and Punch, Jeff (2014) Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems.
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