MSc in Physics from Roma La Sapienza University, Italy (1996), PhD in E.E./Materials Science
from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (2004).

I am a Physics -trained Materials and Nanoelectronics Engineer with ~25 years’ experience
over 4 continents in semiconductor technologies. I have a dual Industrial and Academic R&D
career in electronic materials and their integration processes across the area of devices,
interconnects and advanced packaging. My recent R&D focuses largely on two-dimensional
materials for a variety of integrated technologies but extends to novel architectures for inmemory computing. I was elevated to IEEE Fellow class of 2024 for “contributions to
integration strategies of nanomaterials in silicon technologies” and to MRS Fellow class of
2026 for “leadership in electronic materials and pioneering insights enabling the industrial
uptake of nanomaterials in miniaturized devices and systems”.

I have extensively contributed to local government initiatives and advisory boards to
support R&D and innovation in the semiconductor sector, first in the states of Queensland
and New South Wales in Australia, and later in the state of Indiana in the USA.

Research Scientist at IMEC (Belgium) over 1999-2009, I subsequently took up a year's Guest
Professorship at the University of Tokyo (Japan). In 2010-2011 I directed the Chip-Package
Interaction roadmap for GLOBALFOUNDRIES (Ca, USA). In Australia from 2012, I was the
inventor of a process for the wafer-scale selective growth of graphene on silicon, with
applications ranging from nanophotonics, wearable neural electrodes, and energy storage.
In 2016 I was appointed Full Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of
Technology Sydney, where I founded the Integrated Nanosystems Research Lab and was
Chief Investigator and Chair of Industry Liaison for the Australian Research Council Centre of
Excellence in Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS). In 2024 I joined imec USA in the
role of Director of the Imec Indiana R&D Center, based at Purdue University, Indiana, USA.

I was a 2003 recipient of a Gold Graduate Student Award from MRS, a 2012 recipient of a
Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, awardee of a Global Innovation
Award in Washington DC, 2014 and I was listed among Australia’s most innovative engineers
by Engineers Australia in 2018. In 2019, I was appointed IEEE EDS representative to the
International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) and elected to the IEEE EDS Board of
Governors in 2021 and 2024. I am the founder and inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE
Transactions on Materials for Electron Devices (2024).