Educational Activities Committees

Mario Lanza got his PhD in Electronic Engineering (with honors) in 2010 at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. During the PhD he was visiting scholar at the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (Germany, 2008) and University of Manchester (UK, 2009). During his PhD he analyzed high-k dielectric samples from Infineon Technologies and Numonyx. In 2010-2011 he did a postdoc at Peking University, and in 2012-2013 he was a Marie Curie fellow at Stanford University. On October 2013 he joined Soochow University as Associate Professor, and in 2017 he was promoted to Full Professor. Currently, Prof. Lanza leads a group formed by 17-20 graduate students and postdocs, and it focuses on the improvement of electronic devices using 2D materials. Prof. Lanza has published over 90 research papers (including Science, Nature Electronics, IEDM Tech Digest, and Advanced Materials) edited an entire book on Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy for Wiley-VCH, and registered four patents (one of them granted with 1 million USD investment). He is a member of the technical committee of several top conferences in the field of electronic devices (IEDM, IRPS, IPFA), and member of the advisory board of Advanced Electronic Materials, Nature Scientific Reports, Nanotechnology, Nano Futures and Crystal Research and Technology. Prof. Lanza has received some of the most important research awards at his stage, including the 2017 Young Investigator Award in the field of Microelectronic Engineering (Elsevier), the Young 1000 Talent (Ministry of Education of China), and the Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship (European Union). In 2019 he was selected as Distinguished Lecturer by the Electron Devices Society.

Lecture title:

- Two-dimensional materials based electronic devices

Lecture Topics

- Designer Ge quantum-dot phototransistors for highly-integrated, broadband optical interconnects 
- Germanium quantum dots for functional charge sensing/metrology devices 
- The Unique Optoelectronic and Energy-Conversion Devices based on Ge/Si/O Interactions 
- Self-organized Ge QD/SiO2/SiGe-recess channel FETs

Prof. Lluis F. Marsal is Distinguished Professor and full professor at the University Rovira i Virgili, Spain. Ph.D. from the University Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, 1997. Postdoctoral researcher at the ECE, University of Waterloo, Canada (1998-1999). In 2014, he received the UniSA Distinguished Researcher Award, and the 2014 ICREA Academia Award from the Generalitat of Catalunya. Since 2019, he is the Chair of the Subcommittee for Regions/Chapters (SRC) Regions 8, IEEE- EDS. He was the Chair of Spain Chapter of the IEEE-EDS (2013-2018). He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the Distinguished Lecturer program of the EDS. He has co-authored more than 200 publications in international refereed journals, 2 books, 5 book chapters and 3 patents. His current research interests focus on organic solar cells and hybrid nanostructured materials for optoelectronic devices and low-cost technologies based on micro- and nanoporous materials for biosensing. Lecture Topics: Current progress and perspectives in polymer solar cells Nanostructured organic solar cells and polymers for flexible optoelectronic applications Photonic and optoelectronic devices based on porous materials Micro- and nanoporous materials for biosensing

Lecture Topics:

-Organic photovoltaic solar cells 
-Nanostructured polymers and porous materials 
-Photonic and optoelectronic devices 
-Optical Biosensors

Lecture Topics:

- Recent Developments in Nanoelectronic Devices

- Fabrication of various types of gas semiconductor sensors