Dr. Douglas Thomson is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba. He received the PhD degree from Stanford University, CA, USA, in 1986. His current research interests include biomaterial sensing in microfluidic systems, passive wireless sensors for civil structures monitoring, and scanning probe microscopy. He is the co-inventor of a number of instrumentation systems, including a record-setting capacitance sensor and a passive wireless sensor for the use in monitoring civil structures. He has authored over 100 journal papers. He holds 7 patents as a co-inventor.