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**Maria T. Penella-López** received her BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain, in 2003, 2005 and 2010, respectively. She also worked as assistant professor at UPC. In 2007 she performed a stay at the Laboratory of Electronics of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Her research interests include energy harvesting, energy and power conditioning for low-power autonomous sensors, storage elements and wireless sensor networks. She has co-authorized several conference and journal papers, and two patents. She is currently working on wireless sensor networks for smart cities and energy harvesting at Urbiotica S.L. **Manuel Gasulla-Forner** received the Enginyer (MEng) and Doctor Enginyer (PhD) degrees in Telecommunication from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Catalonia, in 1992 and 1999, respectively. Since 1993 he has been with the UPC, where he is an associate professor, engaged in teaching on Analog Electronics and Electronic Instrumentation. In 2001-2002 he was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His research interests include capacitive sensors, sensor interfaces, wireless sensor networks, and energy harvesting circuits and methods for low-power autonomous sensors.