Núria BARNIOL

Received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, in 1992. She is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Electronics Engineering, UAB. She has been working for the last 20 years in the field of micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) resonators and their integration within complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technologies focused on the reduction of dimensions toward nanoelectromechanical devices with optimized CMOS conditioning circuitry. She has co-authored more than 100 research articles and 200 peer-reviewed conferences. Her research interests include the study of novel piezoelectrical micro/nanometric ultrasonic transducers, their integration with CMOS toward efficient ultrasound imaging systems and sensors, and the exploitation of nonlinear nano-electromechanical-systems (NEMS) resonators. Dr. Barniol was a recipient of the Research Excellence UAB Award in the area of technology, in 2009. She has been on the Program and/or Scientific Committee of several conferences (IEEE-IEDM, IEEE MEMS, MNE, Transducers), and Associate Editor for JMEMS and EDL.

Andrea BUFFOLI

Received the M.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. in Information Technology from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2020 and 2024, respectively. For his M.Sc. thesis, he developed a low-noise integrated circuit (IC) for microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscopes based on nanogauge piezoresistive sensing. During his Ph.D. he focused on high stability MEMS gyroscopes based on the same detection principle and the design of the associated electronics. He is currently an Analog and MEMS Design Engineer at iNGage, a deep-tech startup focused on developing high-end MEMS inertial sensors employing nanogauge piezoresistive readout.

Cristian CASSELLA

Received the B.S.E. and M.Sc. degrees (Hons.) from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015. In 2011, he was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Pennsylvania. In 2015, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Northeastern University, Boston (MA), USA. In 2018, he became an Assistant Professor. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University. He is the author of more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He holds seven patents and four patent applications in the area of acoustic resonators and RF systems. In 2018, he was awarded by the European Community (EU) the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. In 2021, he was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. He received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium in 2013, and in 2021-2022-2023 (with his students). He is a Technical Reviewer of several journals, such as Applied Physics Letters, IEEE Transactions On Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectric and Frequency Control, IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, IEEE Electron Device Letters, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Journal of Applied Physics, IEEE Sensors Letters, and Review of Scientific Instruments.

Roberto CARMINATI

Received the M.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, in 2011. During his M.Sc. studies, he worked on the optical characterization of nonlinear materials for telecommunications and holography. He is currently a MEMS Design Manager in the MEMS R&D Group of STMicroelectronics, Cornaredo, Italy, where he is working on the development and industrialization of MEMS micromirror devices, MEMS environmental sensors and other MEMS devices. He has applied for more than 30 patents in the MEMS research field.

Claudia COMI

Is full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. C. Comi has authored and co-authored more than 180 scientific publications in various fields of solid and structural mechanics and 6 patents on microsystems. Her main research interests concern theoretical and computational mechanics of materials and structures. Her research activities focus on damage and quasi-brittle fracture modelling, on instability and bifurcation phenomena and nonlocal models for elastoplastic and damaging one-phase and multi- phase materials, including functionally graded materials. Her more recent research is devoted to modelling of auxetic and locally resonant metamaterials, also with applications to MEMS, and to design and reliability of microsystems.

Alberto CORIGLIANO

Is full professor of Solids and Structural Mechanics with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Member of the technical committee of Eurosime, Associate Editor of the European J. of Mechanics A/Solids, of Advanced Modelling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences and of Frontiers in Materials – Mechanics of materials. President of the 25° International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, member (2016-2024) of the IUTAM Executive Committee of the Congress Committee. 2006 Bruno Finzi prize for Rational Mechanics by “Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere”, 2015 Euromech Fellow by the European Mechanics Society, 2018 elected member of the “Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere”, 2024 ERC-advanced Grant Laureate. (Co) author of more than 360 publications, 13 patents, 2 books. His main research fields are: damage and fracture mechanics; parameter identification; reliability and design of MEMS; metamaterials; machine learning applied to materials and structures.

David ELATA

Has a D.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 1993, and since 1996 he holds an academic position at the Technion. His research interests include modeling and design of MEMS actuators, and development of novel concepts for MEMS devices. He has been serving the MEMS community as an Editor of the IEEE-JMEMS, 2008-24, as a Senior Editor of IEEE-Sensors Letters, 2017-24, and he has been serving as a member of the TPCs of leading conferences in the field. (He finds interest in many things related to MEMS, so don’t be shy, talk to him!)

Vittorio FERRARI

Is a professor of Electronics at the University of Brescia, Italy, where he is active in scientific research and application-oriented industrial projects on sensors, microsystems, and electronics for measuring instrumentation. His research interests are in piezoelectric transducers, acoustic-wave and resonant sensors, energy harvesting for sensors and microsystems, electromechanical and piezoelectric MEMS, and sensor electronics. He holds a MSc-equivalent in Physics and a PhD in Electronic Instrumentation. In 1994, he was at HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA. In 2013, he has collaborated with CERN, Switzerland, on electronics for particle detectors. In 2017, he has been a visiting professor at the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. He is IEEE senior member, affiliated with italian INFN and CNR. Since 1990, he has been involved in national, EU and international academic research projects and training networks and in industrial collaborations. He has been project evaluator for national and international organizations, member of the scientific advisory board for one Austrian research institute, member of the program committee and chair in international conferences including Eurosensors 2014. He serves in the editorial boards of Micro, and Frontiers of Micro- and Nanoelectromechanical Systems, and he is section editor in chief for Electronic Sensors in Sensors. He is author of more than 250 publications, books, chapters, keynote/invited talks, editor of journal special issues, and co-inventor in 8 patents.

Attilio FRANGI

Attilio Frangi is full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications on issues of computational mechanics and micromechanics and 7 Patents or deposited Patents on Microsystems. He has co-edited two scientific monograph on the multiphysics simulation of MEMS and NEMS. His research interests in the field of MEMS include: the design of new devices; the theoretical and numerical analysis of multiphysics phenomena with specific emphasis on dissipative mechanisms like gas damping, anchor losses, thermoelasticity; the analysis of non-linear phenomena in the dynamical response of MOEMS.

Paolo FRIGERIO

received his M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering and his Ph.D. in Information Technology from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2018 and 2022, respectively. He joined the department of Electronics, Information Technology and Bioengineering as an Assistant Professor (RTDa) in 2022. During his Master Thesis he worked on the implementation of an integrated low-power oscillator for a temperature-compensated MEMS-based Real-Time Clock. During his Ph.D. he worked on closed-loop control for MEMS micromirrors. His current research activity is focused on control systems for MEMS micromirrors and high-end inertial sensors, resonators, and transducers reliability.

Leonardo GAFFURI PAGANI

Has a Master of Science in Electronics Engineering and a Ph.D. in Information Technology from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. During his doctoral studies, he focused on the stability and reliability of MEMS IMUs. In 2021 he joined Bosch Sensortec as IMU Sensor Expert. In this role, Leonardo is responsible for device bring- up, validation, integration and final testing, contributing to the development of cutting-edge sensor technologies and their industrialization.

Giacomo LANGFELDER

Received the Ph.D. degree in information technology from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2009. He is currently an Associate Professor of MEMS and Microsensors and of Electronics Fundamentals with Politecnico di Milano. He is the author of about 200 publications and has applied for more than 30 patents. His research interests include sensors, actuators, and related electronics. He has been a member of the TPC of various IEEE conferences since 2016 and the TPC Chair of the IEEE Inertial Conference in 2018, 2022 and 2025.

Federico MASPERO

Received his M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and his Ph.D. from Université Grenoble Alpes, conducting research at CEA-LETI on the development of innovative MEMS accelerometers. He is currently a researcher in the Department of Physics at Politecnico di Milano, focusing on the development and integration of functional materials in MEMS and other microsystems. He is also responsible for the MEMS Fabrication and Characterization course, which is conducted at PoliFAB, the micro and nanofabrication facility of Politecnico di Milano.

Sabina MERLO

Received in 1987 the master’s degree and in 1991 the Ph.D. degree, both in electronic engineering, from the University of Pavia. She also received the M.S.E. degree in bioengineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, in 1989, thanks to a Rotary Foundation Graduate Scholarship. Assistant Professor since 1993 and Associate Professor since 2001, she is now Full Professor of Electrical and electronic measurements since 2018 at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia. She is president of the Teaching council of Information Engineering at the University of Pavia and Vice-President of the “Distretto della Microelettronica Pavese” recognized as Ecosystem for Microelectronics of the Italian Lombardy region. Her research interests include optical testing of MEMS/MOEMS and microfluidic devices, interferometry, optical chemical sensing and other photonic applications. She has collaborated with STMicroelectronics on MEMS/MOEMS since the very beginning of the company activity in this field (2000). She holds four patents and is the author of more than 200 publications in journals, books, and conference proceedings. She was an Associate Editor of IEEE/ASME JMEMS until 2024, she is now an Associate Editor of MDPI Sensors and MDPI Micromachines.

Dusan RADOVIC

Electrical engineer with Dipl.-Ing. degree from the School of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, Serbia in 1999. Since 2012 he works at Bosch Sensortec as sensor expert in the development of inertial sensors as BMI160, BMI260 to name а few. His expertise and interests cover areas of testing automation, sensor prototyping and applications.

Francesco SECHI

Has a Master of Science in Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Microelectronics from University of Pisa, Italy. He works in the MEMS industry since 2007, and in 2020 he joined Bosch Sensortec, where he currently works as lead of the bring-up team and responsible of the final testing for some of the key products of Bosch Sensortec.

Valentina ZEGA

Received the Ph.D. degree in structural, seismic, and geotechnical engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2017. She is currently an Associate Professor and deputy director for talent development with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. She has co-authored around 40 papers in international journals and 10 patents or deposited patents. Her research interests include the mechanical design and optimization of MEMS devices and metamaterials and the numerical modeling of their linear and nonlinear dynamic response. Since 2019, she has been a TPC Member of IEEE MEMS, IEEE EFTF-IFCS and IEEE INERTIAL conferences. She is the recipient of the 2024 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award in the area of Sensors (early career) and of the AIMETA 2024 junior award in the field of mechanics of solids and structures.

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