MASSIMO CAMARDA, founder

Massimo received his Master €™s degree (cum laude) and his Ph.D. degree in Physics at the University of Catania in 2002 and 2006, respectively. From 2006 to 2014, he worked at CNR-IMM, first as postdoc, later as a senior postdoc. From 2015 to 2019, he continued his scientific work as Senior Scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.   During these years, he has developed several novel characterization and fabrication processes for the realization of novel electronic devices, e.g. the first, transparent-mode, silicon carbide x-ray sensor. In the meantime, this technology has been commercialized by PSI and is already extensively applied for the stabilization of synchrotron light-sources in Europe, Japan and Australia. During his stay in Switzerland, he has been establishing and coordinating several international research projects (including Horizon2020, with more than 3.2 M ‚¬ approved funds) and pursued a number of successful collaborations with industry. Since 2020, Dr. Camarda has been external consultant for CNR-IMM (IT) and for PSI (CH). He has co-authored over 100 publications in international journals, and is inventor of eight patent applications.