Lorenza Ferrario
- Head of Research Unit Micro Nano Facility | MNF
Biography
Lorenza Ferrario received a Masters degree in Statistical Sciences from the University of Bologna, in 1988 and PhD degree in Engineering Sciences from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2007. She works at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, where she is head of the Micro Nano Facility Unit, managing the 4 cleanrooms and a suite of laboratories for sensors fabrication, characterization, and integration. In 2018, she was among the founders of It-Fab, the Italian network of KET facilities, and with It-Fab linked FBK to EuorNanoLab, a European distributed infrastructure in the semiconductor nanotechnologies comprised of more than 40 research institutions.
Since 2019, Lorenza has been the FBK coordinator of IPCEI ME and IPCEI ME/CT, important projects aiming to strengthen the European role in semiconductor fabrication, with attention to first industrial deployment.
Her research interests include silicon technology, concentration photovoltaics, PVD and PECVD processes, information systems for cleanroom management optimization, FAIR data management applied to nanotechnologies. She is also actively supporting actions to favour balancing the presence of women in STEM
Expertise
- Silicon technology
- Information systems for nanofabrication and cleanrooms
- FAIR data management
- Concentration photovoltaic
- Cleanroom management
Experience
- Current position – FBK MNF Head: coordination of research and technical staff of the FBK sensor facility, including 4 cleanrooms and several other laboratories for testing, dicing and characterization of silicon sensors; managing of the budget of the Facility; coordination with the other research units; management of access to the Facility by companies; coordination with FBK Budget, HR, Safety and Asset departments; planning Facility upgrades – equipment, spaces – according to new strategic technologies of FBK
- 2017-2022: MNF infrastructure Area Manager: coordination of the laboratories – staff, uptime, and production
- 2010 – 2017: Management of the FBK cleanrooms
- 2007 – 2010: Senior researcher at MTLab FBK responsible for the R&D of silicon-based photovoltaic technology
- 1994-2006: Junior researcher at the Microsystem Division ITC-irst, with competences in numerical simulation of processes and devices
- Silicon technologies
- Concentration photovoltaics
- PVD and PECVD processes
- Information Systems for Cleanroom Management
- FAIR Data Management
- Nanotechnologies