Gerardo Malavena

Gerardo Malavena was born in 1992 in Atripalda (AV), Italy. He received the M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering (cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology (cum laude) from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2017 and 2021, respectively.

His main research interests include the i) characterization and modelling of 3-D NAND Flash memory arrays and ii) reliability of power devices for galvanic isolation. During his Ph.D. period, he also spent a research period in Micron Semiconductor Labs in Vimercate (MI), Italy, as an external contractor.

He is currently a research fellow (RTD-A) at Politecnico di Milano, where he is teaching assistant for the course Electronics, M.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics.

Filippo Mele

Filippo Mele was born in Rome, Italy in 1991. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering at “Sapienza” University of Rome, and the Ph.D. degree cum laude in information technology at Politecnico di Milano in 2021. From 2015 to 2017, he joined Infineon Technologies (Padua) as an Analog/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits (IC) designer, working on switched-mode power supply (SMPS) ICs for Advanced Driving Assistant System (ADAS) applications. He is currently a Research Associate (RTD-A) at Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano in the Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits Laboratory. 

His research interests include nuclear microelectronics and low-noise analog circuits for semiconductor radiation detectors, with main application in radiation instrumentation for material inspection for recycling processes, food safety and security control, as well as detection systems for synchrotron-light X-ray spectroscopy experiments. He is also involved in the development of low-power, high-energy-resolution Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) for several spaceborne astrophysics experiments, in collaboration with the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) and University of Pavia.

He is an IEEE member, active in the Nuclear and Plasma Science Society, serving as peer-reviewer for the Transactions on Nuclear Science journal. He is technological associate of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), and ordinary member of the Italian Society of Electronics (SIE) in the Sensors, Microsystems and Instrumentation research area.

Nicola Lusardi

• Digital electronics system design (Master degree) code 095378

Nicola Lusardi was born in Piacenza on November 25th, 1990 and received BSc and MSc with honors in Electronic Engineering and PhD in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano. His research activity is focused on digital architectures on configurable devices and in particular of systems at the state-of-the-art for time measurement. He is associated to the Italian National Nuclear Physics Institute (INFN), member of the Nuclear and Plasma Science Society (NPSS) of the IEEE, and responsible for FPGA based electronics in the DSSC experiment at European XFEL.

In 2020 he win the IEEE NPSS Glenn F. Knoll Postdoctoral Education Grant.

Referee for several international journals, he is author of more than 70 scientific international papers. Moreover, he participate as electronic engineer in some experiment in collaboration with the Technology University of Delft (TU Delft, Netherland), the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) and the Elettra Group of Synchrotron of Trieste (Basovizza, TS).

In 2019 is co-founder of TEDIEL srl, an Innovative Start-up and Spin-Off of the Politecnico di Milano thai is based on an innovative Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) architecture entirely developed in FPGA and SoC devices of the latest generation, and placed in the high-tech segment of applications of Smart Mobility, Industry 4.0, Health, Environment.

He has been managing several R&D projects of product innovation through digital electronics in cooperation with private and public companies (e.g. RFI, Cordon Electronics Italia, CAEN).

Luca Bertulessi

Luca Bertulessi was born in 1991 in Bergamo, Italy. He received the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology (cum laude) from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2015 and 2020, respectively.
His research activity during the Ph.D. at the ARPLab – Analog Integrated Circuit Design Laboratory (DEIB), was the design of high efficiency oscillator and digitally-intensive fractional-N PLL frequency synthesizer in CMOS technology for 5G wireless application. In 2018, he held an internship position at Infineon Technologies, Villach, Austria, as Mixed-Signal Design Engineer.

Since October 2020, he is assistant professor at Politecnico di Milano.He currently teaches Electronics for the bachelor course in Engineering of computing systems.
His research interests include mm-wave oscillators, digitally-intensive fractional-N frequency synthesizers, and high speed Analog-to-Digital converters for baseband wireless application.

Simone Formentin

• Model identification and data analysis (Laurea Magistrale) codice 052351

Simone Formentin nasce a Legnano (MI) nel 1984.
Consegue la laurea e la laurea magistrale con lode in Ingegneria dell’Automazione presso il Politecnico di Milano, rispettivamente nel 2006 e nel 2008. Nel 2012, ottiene il titolo di dottore di ricerca con lode in Ingegneria dellíInformazione in un programma congiunto tra il Politecnico di Milano e líUniversit‡ Johannes Kepler di Linz (Austria). Tra il 2012 e il 2014, lavora presso l’EPFL di Losanna (Svizzera) e l’Università di Bergamo come assegnista post-doc e docente a contratto. Da marzo 2014, è ricercatore presso il Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria del Politecnico di Milano (tenure-track da ottobre 2016). Ottiene inoltre l’abilitazione nazionale alla funzione di Professore Associato di Automatica nell’aprile 2017. Collabora regolarmente con università e centri di ricerca italiani ed esteri come, ad esempio, il KTH di Stoccolma, l’Università tecnica di Eindhoven, il LAAS di Tolosa, l’Università di Grenoble Alpes, l’IMT di Lucca e l’Università di Padova.
Sin dallíinizio del dottorato, líattività di ricerca di Simone Formentin si è focalizzata su temi di analisi ed elaborazione dei dati per l’automazione ed il controllo di sistemi complessi. In questo contesto, il Dr. Formentin ha sviluppato oltre 20 progetti in collaborazione con aziende e collaborato a 6 progetti finanziati da enti pubblici. Ha inoltre pubblicato circa 120 articoli (Scopus) in riviste di settore o proceedings di conferenze internazionali. Svolge attività editoriale per l’Editorial Board della IEEE Control Systems Society ed è stato nel comitato di programma di 5 convegni iternazionali. Presso il Politecnico di Milano, è titolare di corsi di statistical learning, identificazione di sistemi dinamici e controlli automatici.

Chiara Guazzoni

• Fondamenti di elettronica (Laurea Triennale) codice 086046

Chiara Guazzoni, born in 1972, graduated in Physics cum laude at Universita’ degli Studi di Milano in 1996 and moved to Politecnico di Milano where she earned her PhD in electronics and Comunication Engineering in 2000 and is now associate professor with tenure and teaches the course Introduction to Electronics (Fondamenti di Elettronica) for the B. Sc in Electronics Engineering. Her research interests are devoted to the development of innovative detection systems for imaging and spectroscopy of X-rays, gamma rays and charged particles. In particular the two main experiments she is involved now are the development of the camera head for XFEL within the DSSC Consortium and of the FARCOS, an innovative correlator for femtoscopy studies in nuclear physics. She is research associate with INFN, Sezione di Milano and she serves as Chair of the IEEE Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee for the term 2019-2020. 

Giulia Acconcia

Giulia Acconcia has been involved in the research of single photon counting and timing applications since 2013. Her main research interests have been on (i) the design and development of all the integrated electronics required to achieve extremely high single-photon count rates, (ii) the extraction of the timing information with picosecond precision from Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs), (iii) new theories and solutions to increase the speed of Time Correlated Single Photon Counting with SPADs.  Her work on front end and processing IC design has provided her a broad knowledge in the field, from device to overall system issues. She is currently involved in several collaborations with national and international research centers and departments, including NASA Langley Center (spaceborne lidar), Heriot-Watt University (underwater imaging), Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano (multispectral imaging and quantum photonics).

2020 – now Junior Researcher (RTDa) at Politecnico di Milano, DEIB

2017-2020 Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant at Politecnico di Milano, DEIB

2013-2017 PhD with honors in Information Technology (track Electronics)

2011-2013 Master’s Degree (Final mark:110/110 cum laude) in Electronics Engineering at Politecnico di Milano

2008-2011 Bachelor’s Degree (Final mark:110/110 cum laude) in Computer Science and Engineering at Politecnico di Milano

Marco Sampietro

• Elettronica Analogica (Laurea triennale) codice 085995
• Prova finale (Workshop di progettazione con SPICE) (Laurea triennale) codice 052426 

Full professor of Electronics, he received the “Laurea” degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1982. Since then he has been working on the design of innovative electronic devices, sensors and circuits for applications in the fields of High Energy Physics, X-ray detection, control of photonic systems and diagnostic tools for medical diseases. He is authors of more than 230 publications on refereed journals and holds 5 patents. He co-founded POLIFAB, the micro and nano technology center of Politecnico di Milano created to provide the highest technological standards in micro and nanoelectronics.

Cristina Silvano

• Advanced computer architectures (Laurea Magistrale) codice 088949

Cristina Silvano is a Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria. She annually teaches basic and advanced courses on computer architectures and operating systems. Her research focuses on Computer Architectures and Electronic Design Automation, with emphasis on power-aware design for embedded systems, design space exploration of energy-efficient computer architectures and application autotuning for manycore architectures and High-Performance Computing. 

She was recently European Project Coordinator of the H2020-FET-HPC project ANTAREX-671623 (2015-2018) on “Autotuning and adaptivity approach for energy efficient exascale HPC systems”. She was Project Coordinator of two previous European projects: FP7-2PARMA-248716 (2010-2013) and FP7-MULTICUBE-216693 (2008-2010). She is an active member of the scientific community and she regularly serves in several international program committees. She also organized 15 international conferences/workshops as Program Chair or General Chair. She is Associate Editor of ACM Trans. on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) and IEEE Transactions on Computers. She served as Independent Expert Reviewer for the European Commission and for several science foundations. 

Her scientific production consists of more than 160 publications: she is co-author of 32 journal publications (including 20 IEEE/ACM Transactions) and more than 90 scientific publications on peer-reviewed international conferences (collecting one Best Paper Award). Based on Google Scholar (31/07/2019), her h-index is 31 and total number of citations is 3770. She is inventor or co-inventor of 11 international patents (7 out of 11 already granted). In 2017, she has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow “for contributions to energy-efficient computer architectures”.

Marco Politi

• Elecromagnetic Compatibility (Laurea Magistrale) codice 095398
• Microwave Engineering (Laurea Magistrale) codice 094791

Marco Politi got the Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1976.

From 1977 to 1983, he served as a Researcher at the Centro di Studio per le Telecomunicazioni Spaziali of the C.N.R. (National Research Council), located at the Politecnico di Milano. In this period, he worked in the field of wave propagation at frequencies above 10 GHz, studying in particular the theory and the applications of meteorological radars in this framework.

In 1983, he joined as a Researcher the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (now DEIB) of the Politecnico di Milano, starting to study also SAW devices and passive components for microwave applications in general.

Since 1991, he has been an Associate Professor at the same Department. His present research interests mainly concern the analysis and the design of microwave devices (filters, directional couplers, etc.), their modeling by equivalent circuits, and the numerical methods for the solution of electromagnetic problems.

Dario Natali

Dario Natali took the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering with honours from in 2000 and the Ph. D. degree in Information Technology with honours in 2004, both from the Politecnico di Milano. Since 2015 he is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria. He teaches Electronics within the Degree Programme of Mathematical Engineering.
His primary research interests concern the development, characterization, modelling and simulation of organic optoelectronic devices and systems  by means of scalable, printing techniques.
He is co-author of more than 50 papers on international peer-reviewed journals, more than 10 conference international proceedings, three book chapters and two patents. His H-index is 23 (Scopus).

Andrea Castoldi

• Semiconductors radiation detectors (Laura Magistrale) codice 095394

Andrea Castoldi received the M. Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in 1993. In 1993 he was Assistant Professor at Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Dip. Fisica, and in 1998 Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Dip. Ingegneria Nucleare. Since 2005 he has been Full Professor of Electronics at Politecnico di Milano, Dip. Elettronica Informazione e Bioingegneria. 

In 1992-93 he was visiting scientist and staff engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Instrumentation Division (USA) where he contributed to the development of novel silicon detectors and integrated  front-end electronics on high resistivity silicon for particle tracking and for high resolution X-ray spectroscopy. 

His research interests are in the fields of radiation detectors for scientific applications, low-noise readout electronics and signal processing techniques, simulation and characterization of semiconductor devices. He is co-inventor of a novel semiconductor detector for spectroscopic imaging of X-rays. He is co-author of 170 peer-reviewed publications and holds 1 national patent and 2 international patents.

Since 1990 he has been associated to INFN with a research appointment and member of the IEEE. Since 1997 he has been head of the Imaging Detectors and Low-Noise Electronics Lab of Politecnico di Milano. He has served several international conference committees: Organizing Committee of the European Symposium on Semiconductor Detectors, International Advisory Committee and Organizing Committee of the Advanced School and Workshop on Nuclear Physics Signal Processing, Reviewer and Topic Convener of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium. 

He has been principal investigator and co-investigator of several projects  funded by MIUR, INFN, ASI and of international research contracts. He coordinated several beam-times at Sincrotrone ELETTRA Trieste and Diamond (UK), LABEC Firenze, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud Catania. He recently participated in the development (2009-2019) of the DSSC detector, an ultra- fast X-ray 2D imaging detector currently installed at the European XFEL facility in Hamburg. 

Giancarlo Storti Gajani

• Advanced circuit Theory (Laurea Magistrale) codice 096532

Giancarlo Storti Gajani graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and completed his PhD in System and Electronics Engineering in 1991 in Politecnico di Milano. He is currently an Associated Professor in group Ing-Ind_31 (Elettrotecnica) in the same university where he teaches Basic Circuit Theory (Elettrotecnica) and Advanced Circuit Theory courses. His main research interests are focused on the development of algorithms and methods for circuit simulation, non linear circuits and, more in general, non linear dynamics. More recently he has started working on power electronics and behavior modeling topics essentially focused to automotive applications. Results of his research are described in over 60 publications (Scopus). He has been member of research projects MADESS-I and MADESS-II and in a number of FIRB, PRIN and FP7 projects. He has done research consultancy work for Studio Azzurro, ST-microelectronics, ACCENT, PDF solutions, Cambridge Silicon Radio and Pegasus Microdesign.

Carlo Fiorini

• Electronics design for biomedical instrumentation (Laurea Magistrale) 090935

Carlo Fiorini received the Laurea degree and the Ph.D. degree from Politecnico di Milano in Electronics Engineering in 1994 and 1998, respectively. In 1999, he joined the Department of Nuclear Engineering of Politecnico di Milano as Assistant Professor, while in 2002 he joined the Department of Electronics and Information Technologies as Associated Professor. In 2010 he has become Full Professor in the same Department. He has carried out part of the research activity at the Max Planck Institut (München, Germany), the University of Siegen (Germany) and the ESRF of Grenoble (France). His primary research interests concern the development of radiation detectors and related applications, and the readout electronics for the detector signals. He has received the “young researcher award” at the Conference “Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics” in 1997, the “Philip Morris Prize” in 1997 and the “Prof. Luigi Tartufari” Prize from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in 2000. He has participated to several national projects supported by MIUR, INFN, CNR, ASI and international projects funded by European Community and European Space Agency, also as coordinator. He has been committed in research activities by companies like Siemens Medical Solutions (USA), Ion Beam Applications (IBA, Belgium), Osteosys (Korea), PulseTor (USA), Canberra (USA). He is author and co-author of more than 350 papers (Scopus) in international reviews and conference proceedings, and co-author of 6 patents. He has been co-founder and President of XGlab, spin-off company of Politecnico di Milano, now a Bruker Corporation company. He is teaching in Politecnico di Milano “Fundamental of Electronics” for the Laurea Degree in Computer Science and “Electronics Design for Biomedical Instrumentation” for the Master Degree in Electronics.

Paolo Laporta

• Elettromagnetismo e Ottica (Laurea Triennale) codice 054218 

Paolo Laporta is Full Professor of Physics at Politecnico di Milano, where he is currently teaching Electromagnetism and Optics and where in the past he taught several courses both at undergraduate and graduate level, including General Physics, Experimental Physics, Optics, Optical Technologies, Advanced Optics and Lasers. Since 1992 he is the group leader of the “Solid State Lasers and Photonics Devices” group at the Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano. 

He took up his scientific career as staff researcher with the Italian National Research Council (1981-83) and, straight afterwards, as Professor Assistant at Politecnico di Milano (1983-86).  From 1986 to 1991 he was Associate Professor of Optoelectronics atTor Vergata University of Rome.  From 1991 to 1999 he was Associate Professor of Optics at Politecnico di Milano.Since 2000 he is Full Professor of Physics at Politecnico di Milano.

Over the years his research has mainly concerned ultrashort light pulse generation, diffraction-limited lasers and optical resonators, diode-pumped erbium-ytterbium laser and innovative near-infrared solid-state lasers, waveguide writing and micromachining by ultrashort laser pulses, waveguide photonic devices with  applications to optical communications. Recent research activities include frequency metrology and molecular spectroscopy in the near infrared using fibre lasers and amplifiers, quantum-cascade-lasers and optical frequency combs, specifically developed for ultra-high precision molecular spectroscopy in the near- and mid-infrared spectral regions, from 1 to 10 µm. 

Paolo Laporta is author/co-author of about 230 papers published in high-impact peer-refereed ISI indexed international journals, over 150 proceedings in international conferences and 4 international patents [Scopus bibliometrics: H-index: 46 – Sum of total citations: 7466 (June 2019)]. He is also author of several scientific reviews and dissemination contributions. He has been involved in several national and international research projects; in particular, he was PI in the Italian MIUR PRIN projects 2003, 2006, 2008. 

He served as member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies of the Italian National Research Council (2002-2018), “Full Member” in the Board of Quantum Electronics and Optics Division – European Physical Society (2008-2014); elected memberofthe Bodyfor Coordination of Teaching and Education at Politecnico di Milano (2004-2010), Faculty member of PhD School in Physics at Politecnico di Milano (2007-2012/2014-present).  Since 2000 he served continuously as referee for LaserLab Europe (the Integrated Initiative of European Laser Research Infrastructures) and since 1988 as scientific expert of MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research) for the evaluation of industrial research projects.

He was awarded the Philip Morris Prize for Scientific and Technological Research for the Project “Erbium-Ytterbium laser for optical communications” (1992) and the National Italian Prize ITALGAS for Research and Technology Innovation (ITC section) for the Project “Novel Lasers for Optical Communications” (2000).

Alessandro S. Spinelli

Alessandro S. Spinelli was born in Bergamo, Italy in 1966. He received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. In 1995 he was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN, where he worked on single-molecule detection in solution, and in 1996 he worked as a consultant with the Central Department of Research and Development, STMicroelectronics, Agrate Brianza, Italy.
He became Assistant Professor with the Politecnico di Milano in 1997 and was with the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italy as an Associate Professor of electronics in 1998. In 2001 he was a Visiting Professor at the Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
Since 2006, he is a Full Professor of electronics with the Politecnico di Milano, where he has held classes in basic electronic, nanoelectronics and instrumentation. He currently teaches Electronics for the graduate course in Engineering Physics.
A. S. Spinelli has co-authored more than 200 papers published in international journals or presented at international conferences (Scopus) as well as three international patents, and has served in the technical committees of the IEDM and IRPS conferences. His main current research field is non-volatile memories, with emphasis on NAND Flash cell reliability.

William Fornaciari

• Embedded systems (Laurea Magistrale) codice 095907
• Adavanced operating systems (laura Magistrale) codice 095904

William Fornaciari, Ms, PhD, is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano – DEIB. He published 7 books and around 300 papers, collecting 5 best paper awards, one certification of appreciation from IEEE and holds 3 patents on low power solutions. He has been involved in 18 EU- funded projects. During FP7 he won the 2016 HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award for the output of the FP7 CONTREX project, he served as Project Technical Manager of 2PARMA (ranked as success story by the EU) and he coordinated the HARPA project where he filed a PCT patent on thermal management strategies. In H2020 he is the coordinator of the FET-HPC RECIPE project and principal investigator for POLIMI of the M2DC, SafeCOP and MANGO projects. He cooperated for 20 years with the Technology Transfer Centre of POLIMI, actively working with international companies to the development of leading edge products. He created two startups (IBT Solutions and IBT Systems) in 2013 and 2016, respectively. His research interests cover multi-many cores, NoC, low power design, run time resource/thermal/power management, wireless sensor networks, embedded systems and cybersecurity. He is actively involved in the development of a new RISC-V SoC with innovative features regarding resistance to side channel attacks and energy management (http://www.lamp-platform.org/). You can follow me on ResearchGate and/or visit the website of heap-lab at POLIMI (http://heaplab.deib.polimi.it/).

Michele Norgia

• Fondamenti della Misurazione (Laurea Triennale) codice 088711

Michele Norgia was born in Omegna, Italy, in 1972. He received the M.S. degree with honours in Electronics Engineering from the University of Pavia in 1996 and in 2000 he received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics Engineering and Computer Science. In 2006, he joined the Electronic and Information Science Department of the Politecnico di Milano as an Assistant Professor in Electric and Electronic Measurements. Since 2016 he is Full Professor of Electrical and Electronic measurements at Politecnico di Milano, where he is currently teaching “Measurement Fundamentals” and “Instrumentation and Measurements”. 

His main research interests are optical and electronic measurements, interferometry, sensors for industrial applications, chaos in lasers, optical frequency standards, micro-electro-mechanical sensors, photomixing and biomedical measurements. 

He is author of about 170 papers (Scopus)published in international journals or international conference proceedings and 8 international patents. Prof. Norgia is a member of the Italian Association “Group of Electrical and Electronic Measurements” and a senior member of IEEE.

Andrea Virgilio Monti-Guarnieri

• Fondamenti di segnali e trasmissione (Laurea Triennale) codice

He co-authored over 200 scientific publications, of which 50 international peer reviewed publications. H index (Google):32, 4500 citations, 4 conference awards and applications for 5 patents. He has been reviewer of many scientific journals, in aerospace, electronics, remote sensing, signal processing, photogrammetry, applied geophysics and Earth observations. He is currently guest editor for MPI special issue on Radio Frequency Interferences. He has been in scientific technical committees of international workshops and symposia on Radar and Earth Observation (EO). 

In 2014-2018 he had been member of “Technical-scientific Committee“, of Italian Space Agency (ASI), nominated by the president, to advice on ASI activities and strategical plans, to enforce relationship between the agency and the scientific community and to promote EO missions and their exploitation.  In 2015-2018 he had been national alternate delegate of  Group on Earth Observations(GEO).

He has a deep experience in Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar, achieved cooperating with European Space Agency since the first mission, ERS-1 with research contracts, supports to commissioning phases of all SAR satellites and participation to ESA quality working group. 

In 2003 his experience in Radar systems and application development led to cofounded spin-off Aresys srl, that he served as president (up to 2015). Aresys is active in the field of space borne SAR, ground based Radar and geophysics.

He collaborated with Argentinean space agency, CONAE, for SAOCOM L-band satellite, and he is proposer and signer (2009) of a Memorandum of Understanding” between POLIMI, CONAE and AREYS.

In 2016 he led a group of 44 scientists proposing “GEOsynchronous Sar for Terrain & Atmosphere with short Revisit” to Earth Explorer EE9 1^stcall. The concept was lately re-proposed in 2018, and selected as EE-10 candidate mission. 

He is currently member of ESA GCLASS Mission Advisory Group.

His current interest focus on Radar based concepts, new system design, calibration and customize solution development. He is presently involved in MIMO SAR, Ground Based Radar, satellite Radar for environmental monitoring, security and civil applications. He is cooperating with meteorologists for providing water-vapor maps at high resolution to improve weather forecasts. He co-organized with POLIMI-DICA and GReD the first GEOlab–RISH international workshop on Observations and models for meteorology @ POLIMI-DEIB.

Alessio Gambetta

• Advanced Optics and Lasers (Laurea Magistrale) codice 097589

M.S. in Electronic Engineering (2003) and Ph.D. in Physics (2009) at Politecnico di Milano with studies on organic semiconductors and nano-materials for optoelectronics applications, since 2011 he joins the Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano as permanent staff researcher.

Also affiliate researcher of the Photonics and Nanotechnologies Institute (IFN) of the Italian National Council of Research (CNR), his research activity is focused on the development of near- andmid- infrared ultrafast fibre laser-systems for molecular spectroscopy/spectrometryand for ultrafast (pump-probe) spectroscopy. In 2008 he was among the pioneers of the high-power Optical Frequency Comb technology for ultra-high resolution molecular spectroscopy in the Mid-Infrared spectral window and of the femtosecond Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scattering technique for vibrational microscopy. He is co-author of more than 85 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has an H-index of 17 (www.scopus.com).

He is co-applicant (WO/2006/077476 – patentscope.wipo.int) of an international patent regarding a non-linear organic photodiode for laser-pulse autocorrelation applications. Since 2005 he has been assistant and lecturer of several teachings delivered by the Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano (General Physics, Electromagnetism and Optics, Advanced Optics and Lasers). 

Paolo Dulio

• Geometria e algebra lineare (Laurea Triennale) codice 082747

Bornin Novara, August 22, 1963
Graduated in Mathematics, Milano 17/02/1987.
Teacher in the secondary school from 1987 to 1995
UniversityResearchersince 1995 (confirmed researcher since 1998).
Member of the Managing Committeeof the European COST scientific program  “Enhanced x-ray tomographic reconstruction: experiment, modeling, and algorithms”.
Member of the organization and scientific committeeof several meetings. 
Member of phd committees.
Author of more than 60 papers (Google Scholar) in the following areas: Discrete Tomography, Geometric Tomography, 
Graph Theory, Neuroscience, Integral Geometry and Measure Theory.

My favourite research activity focuses on inverse problems coming from Discrete and Geometric Tomography, areas which are strictly connected to Computerized Tomography (CT), but with a main theoretical analysis of the involved mathematical features. 

Like in CT the goal is the retrieval of information on hidden structures by means of X-rays, but the usual density functions appearing in CT are replaced by geometric objects. As a consequence, the typical problems of reconstruction, uniqueness and stability are handled through the investigation of geometric, algebraic, analytical or numerical properties, also employing prior information on the objects to be reconstructed. 

In addition to Tomographic problems (X-ray data), my research also focuses onmodelling the functional and the structural connectivity in the brain network (EEG, fMRI, DTI, PET data) by means of a graph-theoretical approach and mathematical analysis

Marco Bramanti

• Analisi Matematica 2 (Laurea Triennale) codice 086000
• Elementi di Analisi Funzionale e Trasformate (Laurea Triennale) codice 086000

Full professor of Mathematical Analysis at Politecnico di Milano. His research interests comprise degenerate elliptic-parabolic partial differential equations, Hörmander’s vector fields, and the theory of singular integrals. He is the author of scientific publications on international journals, research monographs, and fifteen textbooks for university and school. He collaborates with “Effediesse” Laboratory of Mathematics Education and Scientific Experimentation of the Department of Mathematics. He is involved in activities related to the formation of math school teachers and the popularization of mathematics.

Angelo Gulinatti

Angelo Gulinatti received from Politecnico di Milano (Milano, Italy) both the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in Information Technology, respectively in 2003 and 2007. He has been with Politecnico di Milano since 2008, first as Assistant Professor and now as Associate Professor of Electronics (since 2015). He carries out his research activity in the development and modeling of silicon Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) and he currently teaches the class of “Elettronica” for Biomedical Engineering.
Angelo Gulinatti contributed to the development of several generations of large area and low noise SPADs including the ones now commercialized by Micro Photon Devices (MPD). Recently, he designed and developed a red-enhanced SPAD technology that improves the sensitivity at longer wavelengths while maintaining a good temporal resolution. Detectors based on this technology have been exploited in numerous quantum optics experiments in the framework of fruitful collaborations established with leading international research group. Currently he works on arrays of detectors with low Timing Jitter and improved Photon Detection Efficiency. Since 2013 he has been a visiting scientist at Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility, Cornell University (Ithaca, USA), for about 10 months.
He has participated in several research projects funded by the European Commission, the National Institutes of Heath (NIH), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The focus of the projects was on quantum communications, molecular biology, biochemistry and genetic diagnostic.
He has been a co-Principal Investigator for DEIB of the research project  “Multiscreen” funded by Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano. He is currently a co-Principal Investigator of the HFSP-funded project “3D atomic-scale movies of molecular machines in action”. He is also the Principal Investigator for DEIB of the research project  “RED: ultra-Red Efficient Detector” funded by Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano.
He co-authored more than 100 papers on peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings; his H-index is 21 (Scopus).
He teaches the class of “Elettronica” for Biomedical Engineering since 2017 and has taught the class of “Fondamenti di Elettronica” for Telecommunication Engineering from 2009 to 2016.

Vittorino Pata

• Analisi matematica (Laura magistrale) codice 082740

Vittorino Pata was born in Bergamo, Italy, in 1966. He received the Laurea Degree in Physics at the University of Milan in 1990 with final grade 110/110 cum laude, and the Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1994 with final GPA 4.00/4.00. From 1996 to 2000 he was Assistant Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the University of Brescia; from 2000 to 2001 Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, where he became Full Professor in early 2002. For a number of years, he has been the youngest  Full Professor of Politecnico.

During his career, he has been Visiting Professor in several scientific institutions, among which Indiana University, the Institute “Henri Poincaré” (University of  Paris-Sorbonne), the University of Poitiers and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

His research interests touch various aspects of Pure and Applied Mathematics. In particular, Operator Theory, Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, Functional Analysis and Measure Theory.

Vittorino Pata is author/coauthor of more than 150 scientific papers appeared on international journals. He has more than 2500 citations with H-index 28 (Scopus).

Daniele Ielmini

• Elettronica dello stato solido (Laurea Triennale) codice 085999
• Optoelettronica (Laurea Triennale) codice 088712

Daniele Ielmini is a Full Professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1995 e 2000, respectively. He held visiting positions at Intel Corporation (2006), Stanford University (2006) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2010). His research interests include the modeling and characterization of non-volatile memory devices. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Nanotechnology and Semiconductor Science and Technology (IOP). He received the Intel Outstanding Researcher Award in 2013, the ERC Consolidator Grant in 2014, and the IEEE-EDS Paul Rappaport Award in 2015. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

He teaches the bachelor courses of Elettronica dello stato solido (Solid state electronics) on device physics, and Optoelectronics (Optoelettronica) on optoelectronic components and systems. He also teaches the course ‘Beyond CMOS computing’ for PhD students.

Fabrizio Ferrandi

• Digital system design methodologies (Laurea Magistrale) codice 095942

Fabrizio Ferrandi is an Associate Professor in the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of the Politecnico di Milano. He received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and automation engineering (computer engineering) from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 1992 and 1997, respectively (http://ferrandi.faculty.polimi.it/). The Ph.D. thesis on a Methodology for supporting the Design of Testable Digital Systems has received the Chorafas Foundation prize (1997). He joined the faculty of Politecnico di Milano in 1999 as “Ricercatore” and later in 2002 as Associate Professor with the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, books, and proceedings of international congresses (Scopus). According to Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_woi0FIAAAAJ&hl=en), he collected more than 2200 citations reaching an h-index of 26. He served in several technical and organizing committees in international conferences and workshops, such as DAC, DATE, FPL, CODES-ISSS, ASP-DAC, Computing Frontier, ISIS, SAMOS, NAS, GVLSI, VIPES, ARCS and ReConFig. He worked as a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on CAD/ICAS, Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems and of Journal of System Architecture JSA. Fabrizio Ferrandi is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the Test Technology Technical Committee, HiPEAC Network of Excellence for High-Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation, and the European Design and Automation Association. He is one of the maintainers of the PandA/Bambu high-level synthesis tool used to support his research and teaching activities. His current research interests include synthesis, verification, simulation, and testing of digital circuits and systems. He has managed and worked in several ESA/EU funded projects. He received the Best Paper Award EURO-VHDL ’96 for the paper titled “BDD-based Testability Estimation of VHDL Designs” presented at IEEE/ACM European Design Automation Conference and Euro-VHDL, Ginevra, Switzerland, September 16-20 1996 and the Best Paper Award DATE 1999 for the paper titled “Symbolic functional vector generation for VHDL specifications” presented at IEEE/ACM DATE 1999 – Design, Automation and Test in Europe, Munich, Germany, March 9-12 1999.

Teaching activities:

• Contract professor of Fundamental of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, at the University Cattaneo (LIUC), Castellanza – Varese (Italy).Academic years 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01
• Contract professor of Fundamental of Computer Science, Faculty of Economy, at the University Cattaneo (LIUC), Castellanza – Varese (Italy).Academic years 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99.
• 2003-2018 LOGIC DESIGN – Computer Engineering – Undergraduate level.
  2014-present DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN METHODOLOGIES – Computer and Elettronic Engineering – Master level. Taught in English.
• 2013-present ADVANCED ALGORITHMS AND PARALLEL PROGRAMMING – Computer Engineering – Master level. Taught in English.

Member of Collegio docenti dottorato – INGEGNERIA DELL’INFORMAZIONE of Politecnico di Milano from 01-01-2004 al 31-12-2009.
He taught a PhD course titled “Algoritmi e strutture dati per la progettazione e la verifica di sistemi complessi/ Algoritmi per la Progettazione VLSI” – INGEGNERIA DELL’INFORMAZIONE from 2004 to 2009.

Alberto Tosi

Alberto Tosi received the master’s degree (cum laude) in electronics engineering and the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in information technology engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor from 2006 to 2014. He has been an Associate Professor of Electronics with Politecnico di Milano since 2014. He currently works on silicon and InGaAs/InP single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs).

He is currently working on the design and development of novel SPADs, both exploiting standard planar silicon CMOS technologies and innovative hetero-epitaxies of III-V materials and germanium-on-silicon, for extending the photon counting to the near-infrared (up to 1700 nm) spectral ranges. 

His research activity includes arrays of SPADs for 2-D and 3-D applications and time-correlated single-photon counting electronics.

In 2004, he was a Student with the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, working on optical testing of CMOS circuits.

He is the principal investigator for POLIMI-DEIB in the projects “DARPA REVEAL: Scene Recovery using an extended Plenoptic Function” (University of Wisconsin subcontract PRJ 144 AAA8584), “micro-crystals Single Photon InfraREd detectors (microSPIRE)” (H2020 FETOPEN-RIA-2017-1 g.a. 766955), “Smart optical and ultrasound diagnostics of breast cancer (SOLUS)” (H2020 ICT-29-2016-RIA, g.a. 731877) and “Laser and Ultrasound Co-Analyzer for thyroid nodules” (ICT-28-2015, Cross-cutting ICT KETs, g.a. 688303). He was also the principal investigator for POLIMI of the projects “Optical metrology for quantum-enhanced secure telecommunication” (EURANET EMPIR 14IND05 MIQC2), “Advanced Laser Ranging Technologies for Altimetry” (ESA ITT AO 1-7483/13/NL/CP) and “Development of high-performance single-photon detectors”, European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP) Grant IND06-REG2 – Researcher Excellence Grant in reference to JRP: IND06 MIQC. He is a participant of the project “Dependability Engineering Innovation for CPS (DEIS)” (H2020 ICT-01-2016, g.a. 732242) and he was a participant of the project “Microelectronic Single-Photon 3D Imaging Arrays for low-light high-speed Safety and Security Applications (MiSPIA)” (FP7-ICT-2009.3.7, g.a. 257646) and of the project “Quantum Interfaces, Sensors, and Communication based on Entanglement (Q ESSENCE)” (FP7-ICT-2009.8.2, g.a. 248095), besides actively working in other projects funded either by the European Commission or by the Italian Ministry.

He is co-author of more than 240 papers on peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, he is the co-inventor of 3 patents for improving the optical testing of integrated circuits and he filed 2 additional patent applications.

His H-index is 34 (according to Scopus, author ID 35499994500).

He teaches the course “Elettronica” (10 credits) for Biomedical Engineering since 2009.

Since 2014 he is member of the Technical Program Committee for the Single Photon Workshop (SPW) and he is the General Chair of the Single Photon Workshop that will be organized in Milano (Italy) in October 2019.

Cesare Svelto

• Optical Measurements (Laurea Magistrale) codice 095585

Full Professor of Electronic Measurements at Politecnico di Milano, where he is currently teaching  “ Measurements“, “Electronic Circuits and Measurements”, and “Optical Measurements“. He is the Director of the Laboratory of ‘Optical and Electronic Measurements’ of the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione. IEEE Senior member and co-author of over 100 scientific publications (Google Scholar) in the fields of laser characterization, optical frequency standards, frequency noise and stabilization, and biomedical measurements.

Andrea Crespi

• Fisica (Laurea Triennale) codice 051125

Andrea Crespi obtained the Master Degree in Engineering Physics in 2008 from Politecnico di Milano, and the PhD in Physics in 2012 from the same Institution. His research activity is focused on the design and fabrication of waveguide photonic devices, applied in particular to the optical simulation of quantum physical systems and to quantum information. The realization of such devices exploits femtosecond laser micromachining, an innovative technology that enables rapid prototyping of novel devices and yields unique three-dimensional capabilities in the waveguide circuit design. From 2012 to 2015 he worked as a research fellow at IFN-CNR in the group of Dr. Roberto Osellame, one of the world-leading groups in the development of this technology. Since 2016 he is continuing his research activity in this field, as a Researcher at the Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano, maintaining a close collaboration with Dr. Osellame’s group at IFN-CNR. Andrea Crespi is author or co-author of more than 45 publications on international peer-reviewed journals (Scopus); he is co-inventor of 2 pending patents.

Cristiana Bolchini

• Fondamenti di Informatica (Laurea Triennale) codice 082746

Cristiana Bolchini has been teaching for more than twenty years Computer Science Fundamentals courses to freshmen, appreciating how students, who have never exploited problem solving and computer programming, learn to code and see the computer from a different perspective. Those who already have a background from the high school, have the opportunity to see the same concepts, possibly with a different flavour. Her research interests cover methodologies for the design and analysis of computing/embedded systems with a particular focus on dependability aspects (fault modeling, fault mitigation, anomaly detection and diagnosis) targeting heterogeneous and reconfigurable architectures (e.g., many/multi-core, FPGAs). 

Matteo Corno

• Fondamenti di automatica (Laurea Triennale) codice 086045

Matteo Corno received the Master of Science degree in computer and electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, and the Ph.D. cum laude degree with a thesis on active stability control of two-wheeled vehicles from the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, in 2005 and 2009.

From 2009 to 2011, he was Assistant Professor at the Delft Center for Systems and Control.
He is currently an Associate Professor with the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milan and a senior member of MoVE, the DEIB research group for Motor Vehicle Electronic Control.

He held visiting research positions at University of Minnesota, Johannes Kepler University in Linz.

He is authored more than 140 scientific publications and 15 patents (Google Scholar) . During his career, he won several prizes among which:
– the IFAC Congress Interactive Paper Prize at the 19th IFAC World Congress in Cape Town for the Paper M. Corno, P. Spagnol, S. M. Savaresi (2014). Road Slope Estimation in Bicycles without Torque Measurements.
– The award for the best paper published in Control Engineering Practice for the period 2008-2010 for the paper M. Corno, S. M. Savaresi, M. Tanelli, L. Fabbri. (2008) On Optimal Motorcycle Braking. Control Engineering Practice. Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 644-657.
– The Guglielmo Marconi Prize for Industrial Innovation by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the world oldest scientific academy.

He has been the Principal Investigator in two Honda Initiation Grants and the MIUR SIR project: Online Accurate Battery State Estimation via Electrochemical Modelling, in addition to several industrial projects with lead automotive companies: FCA, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Thales Alenia Space, Harley Davidson, HB performance systems US.

Starting from 2012, he, with several colleagues, founded a number of spin-offs: e-novia, Zehus, Blubrake, and Yape.

Marco Compagnoni

• Geometria ed Algebra Lineare (Laurea Triennale) codice 082747

Marco Compagnoni was born in Tirano (Italy) in 1980. He graduated in Physics cum laude from Università di Milano Bicocca (Italy), in 2004. In 2009 he completed his Ph.D. in Mathematical Engineering at the Department of Mathematics of Politecnico di Milano. Starting from 2005, he taught several courses as teaching assistant, in Mathematical Analysis, Algebra, Geometry, Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. From 2012, he is Adjunct Professor of Linear Algebra and Geometry at Politecnico di Milano. His reaserch focuses on Mathematical Physics, Algebraic Geometry and Applied Mathematics. Currently, he is working on the development of new mathematical methodologies for the processing of audio and video signals, in collaboration with the Image and Signal Processing Group of the Politecnico di Milano and as a scientific consultant for several italian firms. He has led the activity of several M.Sc. students in Mathematical Engineering and he has co-authored 13 peer-reviewed international publications in pure and applied Mathematics and in Signal Processing.

Carlo Samori

• Mixed-signal circuit design (Laurea Magistrale) codice 095380

Carlo Samori, IEEE Fellow, is Full Professor in the Master Degree in Electrical Engineering at Politecnico Milano, presently teaching the course “Mixed-signal circuits”. His research interests are in the field of analog/mixed signal and RF integrated circuits design, in scaled CMOS technologies. The activity has been focused in particular in the area of the frequency synthesis: the design of low-noise oscillators, the design and analysis of new high-performance PLLs architectures and frequency modulators for wireless communications.

He is the co-author of about 130 peer reviewed international publications (Scopus), and of the book “Integrated frequency synthesizers for wireless systems”, Cambridge University Press (2007), in addition to several books chapters.

From 1997 to 2002 he has been a consultant at Bell Labs, Murray Hill (NJ), he has also collaborated with several companies operating in the area of both semiconductors and communications: STMicroelectronics, Ericsson Lab Italy, Intel Labs (Hillsboro OR, USA), and Infineon Technologies. He has been also involved in several research programs, both Italian and international.

For the IEEE he has held courses both at tutorial levels (ISSC tutorial and IEEE webminar) and more advanced (ISSC forum). He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and of the TPC in the European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC). He has been Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. As IEEE Distinguished Lecturer he has given lectures at University of Texas Austin, University of Toronto, Georgia Institute of Technology, Princeton University. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Franco Zappa

• Electronic Systems (Laurea Magistrale) codice 54654 

Franco Zappa was born in 1965 in Milano. He received the M.S. in Electronic Engineering cum laude in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in “Electronic and Communication Engineering” 1992, both at Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Italy. Since 2011 he is full professor of Electronics at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) of POLIMI. His main teaching activities focus on the design of electronic systems based on analog and mixed-signal components (“Electronic Systems“ course) and on programmable digital electronics based on microcontrollers (“Microcontrollori” course). He is author of many textbooks, such as Electronics, Electronic Systems, Microcontrollers, and Digital Electronics. 

His main research activities focus on the design and the development of microelectronics and electron devices for single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detectors and imagers for high-sensitivity luminescence measurements, 2D imaging and “time-of-flight” 3D depth ranging, in visible and near-infrared wavelength ranges. He designed novel SPAD structures in both Silicon and InGaAs/InP semiconductors, for extending photon-counting techniques to 1.55µm-wavelengths and beyond. In 1994, he presented and patented the first monolithic Active Quenching Circuit electronics for single-photon detection ever reported.

He has been in charge of the Coordination and the Scientific lead of different European Commission funded projects, e.g. “UniQORN: affordable Quantum communication for everyone – revolutionizing the Quantum Ecosystem from Fabrication to Application”. He Coordinated the “Microelectronic 3D Imaging and Neuromorphic Recognition for Autonomous UAVs” project funded by the NATO – Science for Peace and Security Programme.

In 2004 he co-funded “Micro Photon Devices S.r.L.” (MPD, www.micro-photon-devices.com), a POLIMI spin-off company focused on the production and commercialization of high-end detection modules for single photon-counting.

He is co-author of more than 250 papers with H-index=39 (Scopus), published in peer-reviewed Journals and in proceedings of international Conferences. He is co-author of 4 patents and two more patent applications on photodetectors and sensing.

Since 2019 he is he Chair of the Study Programme in Electronics Engineering at POLIMI.

Carlo de Falco

• Fondamenti di calcolo numerico (Laurea Triennale) codice 070491

Carlo de Falco si è laureato in Ingegneria Elettronica al Politecnico di Milano nel 2002 ed ha ottenuto il titolo
di Dottore di Ricerca in Matematica Applicata presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano nel 2006. 
Dopo aver ricoperto incarichi di insegnamento e ricerca presso la Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (Germania), 
la Dublin City University (Irlanda) e l’Istituto di Matematica e Teconologie Informatiche (Imati – Pavia) del CNR
ha fatto ritorno al Politecnico di Milano, dapprima come Ricercatore (nel 2009) e poi come Professore Associato (dal 2017).I principali interessi di ricerca comprendono Calcolo ad Alte Prestazioni per applicazioni alla Elettronica Computazionale, Elettrochimica e Scienza dei Materiali, Discretizzazione con Analisi Isogeometrica di Equazioni alle Derivate Parzialilegate alla Fluidodinamica ed all’Elettromagnetismo, problemi di Diffusione-Reazione-Trasporto a Perturbazione Singolare,metodi a Volumi Finiti ed Elementi Finiti per problemi di Diffusione-Reazione-Trasporto, simulazione numerica di dispositivie circuiti elettronici, accoppiamento di Equazioni alle derivate Parziali con Equazioni Differenziali con vincoli Algebrici,tecniche di Iterazione Funzionale per la risoluzione di problemi non-lineari.Una lista di pubblicazioni scientifiche si trova su <a href=”https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=mfHcuHQAAAAJ“> Google Scholar </a> o <a href=”https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9872-1425“> ORCID </a>.

Giovanni Toletti

• Economia e organizzazione aziendale (Laurea Triennale) codice 082741

Giovanni Toletti, since 2006 is Associate Professor of Business Economics and Organisation at the Department of Management Economics and Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano where he has been Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2006. He teaches Strategy and Business Plan at MIP’s master programs and in other masters. He teaches Business Economics and Organisation at the Bachelor of Science in Automation and Control Engineering and in Electronic Engineering. Since 2017, he is the Director of the Specialising Masters Division at MIP, Politecnico di Milano’s Business School. From 2013 to 2018 he has been Human Resources Director and the Dean’s Delegate for Human Resources at MIP. From 2003 to 2013 he has been first Co-Director and then Director of the International full time MBA and then Director of the MBA Area at MIP. His research activities deal, on the one hand, with Renewable energies and Circular Economy and, on the other hand, with business planning in particular for startups and for companies changing their business model.

Gian Guido Gentili

• Antennas (Laurea Magistrale) codice 096110

Gian Guido Gentili was born Turin, Italy, in 1961. He received his Laurea degree at Politecnico di Milano in 1987.
He was a reasearcher for CNR-CSTS, a senior researcher for CNR-IEIIT and is now an associate professor at Politecnico di Milano, DEIB, since 2002.
His research interests are in the field of numerical modeling (Finite Element Method, Method of Moments, Modal Techniques), antennas (Horns, planar antennas, reconfigurable antennas, arrays) and passive microwave devices (filters and diplexers, ortho-mode transducers, couplers).

Michele D’Amico

• Campi elettromagnetici (Laurea Triennale) codice 088680

Michele D’Amico was born in Italy in 1965. He graduated from Politecnico di Milano in 1990; in 1997 he received his “Ph.D. in Mathematics” from the University of Essex (UK), with a thesis entitled “An Anisotropic Model of the Electromagnetic Properties of the Melting Layer, and Comparison with Radar Observations”, under the supervision of Prof. A.R. Holt. He has been Assistant Professor at DEI from 1993 to 2002. Since 2002 he has been Associate Professor in Applied Electromagnetics. Teaching duties at Politecnico di Milano included lectures and classes on Electromagnetic Fields, RF circuits and Antennas, Wireless and Mobile Propagation. He taught the course “Radiopropagacion y medios de transmision” at ESPLOL (Ecuador) in 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018.

Research activities include antennas (antennas with reconfigurable radiation pattern and/or polarization state; metamaterial-based antennas; ZOR antennas; and antennas for the THz band), electromagnetic wave propagation in the troposphere at frequencies above 10 GHz, and radarmeteorology (both ground-based and airborne). He is one of the founders of ADANT, a very dynamic start-up whose mission is to develop and market novel and revolutionary antennas for next generation wireless communication systems.

Since May 2013 he is responsible for the experimental activities of the Spino d’Adda laboratory of the Politecnico di Milano, dedicated to the experimental investigation of EM waves in the troposphere.

He has been responsible for numerous research contracts, signed with both public entities and private companies. He is member of the Italian Society of Electromagnetism and IEEE Senior Member. He has several patents on antennas and has authored or co-authored more than 130 papers published in international journals or conference proceedings (Google Scholar).

Christian Monzio Compagnoni

• Electron Devices (Laurea Magistrale) codice 095155

Christian Monzio Compagnoni received the Laurea (cum laude) degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Since 2006 he has been with the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, first in the capacity of Assistant Professor (from April 2006 to March 2015) and then of Professor of Electronic Engineering (since March 2015). 

Christian Monzio Compagnoni’s research interests are in micro/nano-electronic devices and technologies. In particular, he has been performing research activities on the basic physics, the operation and the reliability of solid-state devices and technologies for data storage for 15+ years, with emphasis on the NAND Flash technology. Activities have been done in collaboration with some of the most important semiconductor companies in the world and led to more than 120 papers (Scopus) published in international journals and conference proceedings (with 40+ papers published in the IEEE-Transactions on Electron Devices, 15+ papers published in the IEEE-Electron Device Letters and 15+ papers presented at the IEEE-International Electron Devices Meeting) and to 2 US patents. 

Christian Monzio Compagnoni was the recipient of 5 awards at the IEEE-International Reliability Physics Symposium (“Outstanding paper Award” in 2008, “Best Student Paper Award” in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and “Best Poster Award” in 2015) and served in the technical program committee of the same conference in 2009 (“Memory” committee), 2010 (“Memory” committee) and 2016 (“Memory and product IC reliability” committee). He has been serving as Associate Editor of the IEEE-Transactions on Electron Devices since November 2015, arranging the review of papers in the area “Memory Devices and Technologies”. Christian Monzio Compagnoni was elevated to the grade of Senior Member of the IEEE in 2014.

Marco Carminati

• Biochip (Laurea Magistrale) codice 054085

Marco Carminati was born in Milano (Italy) in 1981. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering, both cum laude from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), in 2003 and 2005 respectively. In 2008 was awarded a Rocca Fellowship and spent a semester at MIT (USA) working on microfluidics and bioelectronics. In 2009 he completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Electronics, Information Science and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano where he is currently Assistant Professor (with habilitation for Associate Professor) and associated member of INFN (Sez. Milano) since 2016. His research focuses on the design and development of low-noise electronics for micro-sensors and radiation detectors (x- and gamma-rays with applications spanning from fundamental physics experiments to medical imaging and environmental monitoring). Since 2014 he has been lecturing the Biochip course and several Ph.D schools. He has led the activity of tens of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students and has been work-package technical coordinator in several national (MINUTE, DRINKABLE, SMART FOUNDRY, HIDRA) and international projects (EXCELL, BBOI, INSERT, PAiRED-X). He is IEEE Senior Member, active member of NPSS, CAS and I&M societies, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems since 2019. He has been awarded 3 best paper awards at IEEE conferences (ICECS 2012, SDD 2014 and ISCAS 2019). He serves as member of the TPC of a few IEEE conferences and as session chair at the IEEE NSS/MIC conferece. He has co-authored 140+ peer-reviewed international publications (1200+ citations, H-index 18 Google Scholar), several book chapters and holds 4 patents. Furthermore, he is active in scientific dissemination events (MeetMeTonight, ICT4ALL, PoliMi Open Day, DEIB Open Labs and summer schools etc..).

Giacomo Langfelder

• Mems and microsensors (Laurea Magistrale) codice 095162

Giacomo Langfelder was born in La Spezia in 1981.

He received the M.S. in Electronics Engineering (2005) and the Ph.D. in 
Information Technology (2009) at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is an 
Associate Professor and has been lecturer of Optoelectronic Systems 
(2011-2015) and of MEMS and Microsensors (2016 to now).

His research interests include MEMS transducers (inertial, magnetic, 
ultrasonic, micromirrors, resonators…) and related electronics and 
systems. He is the author of 120+ publications (Scopus) and has applied for 10+ 
patents. In 2014, he was a co-founder of ITmems s.r.l.

Dr. Langfelder has been a member of the TPC of various IEEE conferences 
since 2016. He was a recipient of the Accenture prize in 2005 and the 
Rotary International prize in 2011.

Federica Villa

• Sensor system (Laurea Magistrale) codice 054092

She was born in Milan in 1986. She made her bachelor in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and she graduated cum laude in 2008. In her thesis, she analyzed the motion of a human body with a 3D optoelectronic system. In 2010 she received her master degree, cum laude, in Electronic Engineering defending the thesis “Design of an Integrated Circuit for Fast-Gating and Active Quenching of a Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD)”. In 2010 she interned in the Biochemistry Dept. of UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), and collaborated to a research project studying high throughput Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy with Single Photon Avalanche Diodes arrays. She enrolled the PHD program in Electronic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2011. Her present research activity falls within the European Project FP7 MiSPIA, and it aims at designing a SPAD array for 3D imaging with direct time of flight method.

Angelo Geraci

• Sistemi elettronici digitali (Laurea Triennale) codice 085996

Angelo Geraci received the M.Sc. cum laude in Electrical Engineering in 1993 and the Ph.D. cum laude in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 1996 from Politecnico. As Associate Professor since 2004 at Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), his research activity is mainly focused on digital electronics based on configurable devices (microcontrollers, DSP and FPGA). Lecturer of the courses “Sistemi Elettronici Digitali” and “Digital Electronic Systems Design” of the School of Industrial and Information Engineering and of courses for the PhD program in Information Technology, he is scientific collaborator of the Italian National Nuclear Physics Institute (INFN) since 1995 and on 2003 he has been elevated to the grade of Senior Member of IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Society. He is Member of the Directive Board and Deputy Coordinator of the PhD School in Information Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. He is co-founder of two Innovative Start-Up companies, one of which also Spin-off of Politecnico. He is Auditor of projects on behalf of the Italian MIUR. He has been the proposer and manager of several sponsored joint research projects between the Politecnico di Milano and private/public Companies. IEEE Transactions Prize Paper award for 2004 by the IEEE Power Electronic Society and referee for several international journals including IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Review of Scientific Instruments, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, he is co-author of more than 320 publications (ResearchGate) on refereed international congress proceedings and journals (2 papers on Nature).

Andrea Bonfanti

• Digital Integrated Circuit Design (Laurea Magistrale) codice 095264

Andrea Bonfanti was born in Besana Brianza (Milan), Italy, in 1972. He received the Laurea Degree in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. in Electronics and Communications from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2003 to 2006 he was temporary researcher at the Electronics Department of Politecnico di Milano involved in the design of multi-GHz L-C tuned oscillators and Phased Locked Loops (PLLs). In 2006 he joined the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, where he designed integrated circuits in the framework of the Brain Machine Interface (BMI) project. In 2009 he has been appointed Assistant Professor, and from 2012 Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Milano where he currently holds the course of “Digital Integrated Circuit Design” for Master Degree . From 2003 he has been consultant for different semiconductor companies (ST-Microelectronics, Accent, Bell Labs), for Center of Excellence for Research, Innovation and Industrial Laboratories (CEFRIEL Partnership), Milan, Italy, and Newronika (Cologno Monzese).

His main research activity is focused on the design of mixed-signal integrated circuits for biomedical applications (detection and acquisition of neural signals in human patients affected by Parkinsons’s diseases and small laboratory animals) and for MEMS inertial sensors (magnetometers, gyroscopes and accelerometers). Another research activity deals with the study of phase noise in LC-tuned oscillators for multi-GHz applications.

Andrea Bonfanti is author/coauthor of approximately 60 papers (Scopus) published in journal or presented at international conferences and 4 educational books on analog electronics circuit design.

Massimo Ghioni

• Power Electronics (Laurea Magistrale) codice 090918

Massimo Ghioni received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Nuclear Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1987.
After graduation, he spent two years at the former CEQSE-CNR (now Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies – CNR), Milan as a research fellow.
In 1990, he joined the Department of Electronics and Information at the Politecnico di Milano, first as an Assistant Professor (until 1998), then as an Associate Professor (1998-2000), and finally as a Full Professor of Electronics (since 2000).
In 1992 he was visiting scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.
He has served as Deputy Chair of the Department of Electronics and Information (2003-05), and Chair of the Electronic Engineering program, Politecnico di Milano (2010-12).
Massimo Ghioni has a 30 years’ experience in the development of Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) and associated electronics. Starting in 1987 he carried out a pioneering role in this field, first introducing a class of novel epitaxial SPAD detectors, then developing various generations of silicon SPAD devices and new technological processes for their manufacture in collaboration with industries and academic laboratories (IMM-CNR, Bologna, Italy; ST-Microelectronics Milano/Catania, Italy; Tyndall Institute, Cork, Eire; Boston University, USA, Cornell Nanoscale Facility, USA). He contributed to the design of the first integrated active quenching circuit and its subsequent generations, which opened the way to practical application of SPAD detectors in compact photon detection modules.
He participated as PI or co-investigator in several national and international research projects focused on applications of SPAD devices in in quantum cryptography, adaptive optics, molecular biology, biochemistry and genetic diagnostics.
His current research interests are mainly focused on the development of photon counting and timing modules based on SPAD arrays for multichannel fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy. The objective is to increase both the throughput and the miniaturization of the measurement system, making fluorescence-based analytical techniques attractive for point-of-care diagnostics and for large-scale screening tests used in the field of biotechnology and in the pharmaceutical industry.
He has authored/co-authored over 200 papers in international journals and conferences and he holds 8 US and EU patents (Scopus).
In 2004 he co-founded Micro Photon Devices (MPD), a spin-off company of the Politecnico di Milano specialized in developing, manufacturing and bringing to the market novel photon counting modules and systems based on SPAD devices (http://www.micro-photon-devices.com/).
Massimo Ghioni received the AEI (Italian Association of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Award in 1996 and the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Prize Paper in 2004. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Andrea Lacaita

• Dispositivi Elettronici (Laurea Triennale) codice 070354
• Analog Circuit Design (Laurea Magistrale) codice 052427

Full Professor of Electronics at Politecnico di Milano, where he is currently teaching “Electron Devices“ and “Analog Circuit Design”. He has served as Department Chair of the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (2006-08), member of the Academic Senate (2007-09), member of the Board of “Fondazione Politecnico” (2011-15). Since 2013 he has been Scientific Director of PoliFab – Facility for Micro and Nanotechnologies. Since 2016 he is in the Scientific Committee of the Department of Physical Sciences and Matter Technology of the Italian National Research Council – CNR.
He received the “Laurea” degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1985. From 1987 to 1992 he was Researcher of the CNR. In 1992 he was appointed EE Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, where he established the Micro and Nanoelectronics Lab; Full professor since 2000. He has been Visiting Scientist at the AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (1989-90), IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY (1999), Data Storage Institute, Singapore (2011). He has been serving in conference committees: IEEE-IEDM (2001-04), IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology (2005-08), NVMTS (2012-16), ESSDERC (2005/2010-16). Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (2009-14). He authored/co-authored more than 350 papers (Scopus) published in international journals and presented at conferences. In 2009 he was elected IEEE Fellow “for contributions to modeling of single-photon avalanche-diodes and non-volatile memory devices”. He is member of the Academy of Science – Accademia di Scienze e Lettere – Istituto Lombardo.

He began his research activity working on physics and technology of SPADs (Single Photon Avalanche Diodes) and related electronics. In 1992 he initiated two research lines, one addressing the physics and the reliability of submicron devices, the other dealing with integrated circuit design for RF applications. In these fields, he contributed to modeling of carrier transport in scaled devices and to reliability studies of non-volatile memory technologies. He also contributed to analysis and optimization of low noise fully integrated VCO’s and to design of frequency synthesizers for wireless applications. Some of the results are described in the book “Integrated frequency synthesizers for wireless systems”, Cambridge University Press (2007).

Salvatore Levantino

• RF Circuit Design (Laurea Magistrale) codice 085746

Salvatore Levantino manages the laboratory of Analog, Mixed-Signal and RF Circuit Design which counts 10+ post-doc researchers and PhD students under his supervision and many master’s degree students. Since 1998, he has been working on the design of integrated circuits for wireless applications in the most advanced technology processes. He has recently created a Joint Research Center (JRC) with industry to develop smart radar sensors at millimeter-wave frequencies for autonomous vehicles as well as key building blocks enabling future wireless communications standards. In his career, he has supervised 35+ students which are now successfully working in the semiconductor industry in Europe and North America.

Integrated circuit design at the nanoscale is posing new challenges, because of voltage scaling and performance degradation of MOS transistors. This demands for a paradigm shift in circuit design, where on-the-fly digital calibrations integrated on the same silicon chip have to be embedded within mixed-signal circuits to improve their performance and control process and environmental variations. New professionals are therefore needed in the semiconductor industry, which master both digital adaptive filtering, analog/mixed-signal circuit design, design of planar electromagnetic structures in silicon sat radio-frequency and millimeter-wave.

Professor Levantino received the Laurea Degree (cum laude) and the Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1998 and 2002, respectively. From 2000 to 2002 he was consultant at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill (NJ). Since 2005, he has been Assistant Professor and subsequently Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, where he is now the instructor of the course of RF Circuit Design for the master’s degree in Electronics Engineering and of the course of Electronics Fundamentals for the bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. In the last ten years, he participated to 10+ funded research projects, in collaboration with STMicroelectronics (Italy), Ericsson (Italy), Intel Labs (Oregon), Imec (Belgium), Infineon Technologies (Austria), contributing to the design of wireless transceivers and phase-locked loops in BiCMOS and pure CMOS processes. 

He is a member of the technical program committee of the International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC). He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE.

Ivan Rech

• Signal Recovery (Laurea Magistrale) codice 095251

Ivan Rech has been involved in the research on single-photon detection for more than 18 years, starting from his Master thesis when he had the opportunity to join Prof. S. Cova’s group. Since the beginning he had to manage his own research and during his PhD he supervised more than 10 master students, learning the issues related to the management of a group but also the beauty of teamwork and of being able to transfer my skills to others. His contributions to single-photon world are in the area of device, fast integrated electronics and final system developing. His vision for this emerging field is that a multidisciplinary approach that addresses all the aspects of the detection from the device physics to the final data acquisition could bring to the development of real groundbreaking detection systems in crucial fields like drug analysis, single molecule and protein analysis. His research activity has covered the broad area of “Single photon detection” and proceeds along three main lines: (i) pushing the frontiers of SPAD devices, increasing their sensitivity and their time resolution through the comprehension of their physics; (ii) developing new ultrafast integrated electronics to drive SPADs, extract and convert the single-photon timing information from the analog current signal (iii) employing these advanced devices and electronics to reach previously unattainable results in field ranging from single molecule dynamics to quantum optics.

2015-now      Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, DEIB
2005-2015     Assistant Professor  Politecnico di Milano, DEIB
2004              Research Associate on “Development of microsystems for genetic diagnostics“
2001-2004    PhD with honors in Engineering for Information Technology
2000             Master’s Degree (Final mark:100/100 cum laude) in Electronics Engineering at thePolitecnico di Milano