January 2011 – today SW and HW engineer for embedded systems – Philips SAECO – Gaggio Montano (BO) – Italy The role required: • knowledge of Freescale/NXP HCS12X microcontrollers (compiling/ interfacing/ debugging). • knowledge of Atmel Cortex M microcontrollers (compiling/ interfacing/ debugging). • knowledge of payment systems and protocols • knowledge of EMC compliance issues and standards; • employment of SW Archiving / Code versioning tools like Tortoise SVN / TRAC / GIT; • knowledge of code architecture to isolate tasks and cycles; • HW testing and fixing adopting signal monitoring; • knowledge of DxDesigner, Code Warrior, Matlab, LTSpice, Eclipse; • sw analysing /design / testing; • understanding layout issues; • proposing user-oriented sw solutions; • adopting a structured approach to problem solving.

April 2008 – July 2009 Electro-thermal device simulation on Ansys TAS and COMSOL – characterizing Carbon Nanotubes substrates Politecnico di Torino, Post Doctoral Research Assistant

October 2007 – February 2008 Electromagnetic simulation on HFSS University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, Post Doctoral Research Assistant

June 2007 – September 2007 Microwave system design and simulation University College of Dublin, Ireland Post Doctoral Research Assistant

March 2007 – May 2007 Physics-Based Silicon Carbide Power device simulation Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Politecnico di Torino

Education/ Training PhD in Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 2004– 2006 (3 years) Thesis: Physics Based simulation ad experimental characterization of low-frequency noise in semiconductor devices Master Degree in Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

(1997 – 2003 ) 5 years – Master Degree. Thesis: Physics-Based simulations of Generation and Recombination Noise related to trap-levels in semiconductor devices High School Training: Liceo Scientifico Statale “Leonardo Da Vinci”, Maglie (Le)