A. Nastro gained a Laurea Degree cum laude in Electronics Engineering and a Ph.D. in Information Engineering at the University of Brescia in 2016 and 2020, respectively. Since 2019 he has been a research fellow with the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Brescia. His research activity deals with the development of electronic techniques and circuits coupled to MEMS for static and dynamic micromechanical sensing and actuation. He has co/authored 15+ publications in international peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings.
M. Ferrari gained a Laurea Degree in Electronics Engineering and a Ph.D. in Electronic Instrumentation at the University of Brescia in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He has been an assistant professor (2007–2015), an associate professor (2015–2020), and since 2020 he has become a full Professor of Electronics in the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Brescia. He is also an associate member of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), and IEEE member. His research activity deals with energy conversion via the piezoelectric and thermoelectric effect for powering autonomous microsystems, sensors for physical and chemical quantities, signal-conditioning electronics, oscillators and frequency-output interface circuits, resonant microsensors, and MEMS. He has co/authored 100+ publications in international peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings, and has a patent for industrial exploitation.
Libor Rufer gained Engineering and Ph.D. degrees from the Czech Technical University, Prague. Until 1993, he was with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague. Since 1994, he has been an Associate Professor, and later a Senior Scientist with the University of Grenoble, France. In 1998, he joined the Microsystems Group of TIMA Laboratory. His expertise is mainly in MEMS-based sensors and actuators, electroacoustic and electromechanical transducers, and their applications in acoustics, ultrasonics, and energy harvesting.
Skandar Basrour graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Tunis, Tunisia, in 1986, and completed a Ph.D. in microelectronics at the Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, in 1990. From 1992 to 2001, he was an Assistant Professor in electronics and microsystems at the Université de Franche-Comté, Besancon, France. He contributed to the development and improvement of the X-ray and UV LIGA microfabrication techniques. Since 2001, he has been a Full Professor in electronics and microsystems at the Polytechnic School of Engineering, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble. He was the Leader of the TIMA Laboratory, Micro and Nano Systems Group, for 12 years. Since 2013, he has been the Co-Leader of the CDSI Group, TIMA Laboratory, Grenoble. Since 2015, he has been the Deputy Director of the TIMA Laboratory. His research activities are focused on the design, fabrication, and characterization of high-Q microresonators and nanoresonators as a time reference. In recent years, he propelled the design of new micropower generators based on piezoelectric thin films (PiezoMEMS). More recently, he has started working on acoustic devices, such as microphones for aeroacoustics metrology and tactile devices using ultrasound waves for haptic rendering.
V. Ferrari received the Laurea degree cum laude in Physics in 1988 at the University of Milan, and a Ph.D. in Electronic Instrumentation in 1993 at the University of Brescia, Italy, where since 2006 he has been a full Professor of Electronics. He is also an associate member of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), and senior member of IEEE. He and his group are active in research projects, with both academic and industrial participation, on piezoelectric transducers and resonant microsensors, energy harvesting for autonomous sensors, MEMS and microsystems, sensors with contactless interrogation, electronic interfaces for sensor signals, sensing systems for fluidics, and wearable devices. He has authored and co-authored more than 250 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, invited presentations, book chapters, and has six patents. He serves in international panels, conference committees and boards in the field of sensors and electronic instrumentation. He was programme chair at Eurosensors Conference 2014.