Esther Rodriguez-Villegas FREng (born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz)[1] is a Spanish engineer, inventor and the Professor of Low Power Electronics at Imperial College London.
In 2010, she was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant to develop wearable technologies for the diagnosis and monitoring of epilepsy.
Acurable created the AcuPebble sensor,[9] which allows the accurate diagnosis and management of respiratory conditions through the monitoring of acoustic signals with astounding accuracy.
[10] The device can help patients to manage conditions including apnoea, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and whooping cough.
[7] Alongside the AcuPebble, Rodriguez-Villegas has worked on a wireless, lightweight (1.5g), low-power device (the TaiNi) that can monitor the brains of mice for three days.