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Andrea C. Ferrari
Italian Professor of nanotechnology and Director at the Cambridge Graphene Centre of University of Cambridge

Andrea C. Ferrari

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Italian Professor of nanotechnology and Director at the Cambridge Graphene Centre of University of Cambridge
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Andrea C. Ferrari earned a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Cambridge after obtaining a Laurea in nuclear engineering at Polytechnic University of Milan, in Italy. He is the Founder and Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre at the University of Cambridge, and the EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Graphene Technology. Prof. Ferrari is the Science and Technology Officer and the Chair of the Management Panel of the Graphene Flagship, one of the biggest research initiatives ever funded by the European Commission.

Awards

Professor Andrea C. Ferrari is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics, the Materials Research Society, and the Optical Society. Among others, he has received the following awards:

  • Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
  • Royal Society Mercer Award for Innovation
  • Marie Curie Excellence Award
  • Philip Leverhulme Prize
  • EU-40 Materials Prize.

Professor Ferrari has also received 3 European Research Council grants.

Research

In 2017 he participated in a research of heat-dissipating shoes which use graphene soles. In 2018 he experimented with spintronics device functionalities in graphene heterostructures and worked with European Space Agency's space-like applications to develop a zero gravity graphene. He also works in collaboration with the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications and IMEC.

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