Consortium / Team

Gerhard P. Fettweis, earned a Ph.D. under H. Meyr at RWTH Aachen (Germany) in 1990. After a postdoc at IBM Research, San Jose, he joined TCSI, Berkeley, USA. Since 1994 he is Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, Germany. Additionally, since 2018 he is the founding Scientific Director & CEO of the Barkhausen Institute. He researches wireless transmission and chip design, with a focus on trustworthiness at the Barkhausen Institute. He coordinates the 5G++Lab Germany and the German Cluster-for-Future SEMECO. His team spun-out 19 tech startups, and he initiated 6 platform corporations. Gerhard is member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the German Academy of Engineering (Acatech), the US National Academy of Engineering; and Fellow of IEEE, VDE/ITG, US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), EURASIP, DATE, and WWRF. He is active in helping organize IEEE conferences and is on the Editorial Board of Proceedings of the IEEE.

Website Vodafone Chair, TU Dresden

Denis Flandre (M’85–SM’03) received the Ms in Electrical Engineering and PhD degrees from UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1986 and 1990. His doctoral research was on the modelling of Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) MOS devices for characterization and circuit simulation, his Post-doctoral thesis on a systematic and automated synthesis methodology for MOS analog circuits. Since 2001, he is full-time Professor at UCL. He is involved in the research and development of SOI MOS devices, digital and analog circuits, as well as sensors, MEMS and photovoltaic cells, for special applications, more specifically ultra low-voltage low-power, microwave, biomedical, radiation-hardened and high-temperature electronics and microsystems. He has authored or co-authored more than 1200 technical papers or conference contributions and 12 patents. He organized or lectured many short courses on SOI technology, devices and circuits in universities, industrial companies and conferences. Prof. Flandre is co-founder or scientific advisor of several start-ups (CISSOID, INCIZE, e-peas, VoCSens…). He is a recipient of a European Research Council Synergy Grant.

Website ICTEAM, UC Louvain

Adrian Ionescu’s research in steep slope devices is seminal. He pioneered the demonstration of electric-field controlled tunneling field-effect transistors with enhanced turn-on/off steepness using the principle of band-to-band tunneling injection. He’s made groundbreaking contributions in the field of internal gain devices using negative capacitance effect to accomplish steep turn-on/off qualities. As one of Europe’s leading scholars in the field of micro- and nanoelectronics, his focus is linking fundamental research to societal needs. Ionescu’s technical contributions range from nano-mechanical devices to futuristic post-MOSFET transistors with ultra-low power functionality. His recent venture, DIGIPREDICT, uses digital twin technology and energy-efficient sensors for personalized and preventive healthcare. His remarkable insights have fundamentally advanced the understanding of electron devices and technology. An IEEE Fellow, Ionescu is a professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Website EPFL NanoLab

Elisabetta Chicca received a Ph.D. in Natural Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ, Physics department) and in Neuroscience from the Neuroscience Center Zurich in 2006. E. Chicca has carried out her research as a Postdoctoral fellow (2006-2010) and as a Group Leader (2010-2011) at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) working on development of neuromorphic signal processing and sensory systems. Between 2011 and 2020 she lead the Neuromorphic Behaving Systems research group at Bielefeld University (Faculty of Technology and Cognitive Interaction Technology Center of Excellence, CITEC). In 2021 she joined the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials at the University of Groningen as full professor and chair of Bio-Inspired Circuits and Systems. Her current interests are in the development of CMOS models of cortical circuits for brain-inspired computation, learning in spiking CMOS neural networks and memristive systems, bio-inspired sensing (vision, touch, olfaction, audition, active electrolocation) and motor control. She combines these research approaches with the aim of understanding neural computation by constructing behaving agents which can robustly operate in real-world environments. She is recipient of EU H2020 funding in various programs (ICT, MSCA, FETPROACT), NWO and DFG funding. E. Chicca contributed to the creation and launching of a new IOP journal (Nueromorphic Computing and Engineering) to promote multi-disciplinary publications in her field and futher supports the journal as Executive Editorial Board member.

Website Bio-inspired Circuits & Systems, Group of E. Chicca