Andrea Padovani
Senior Manager @ Applied Materials Italia
Dr. Andrea Padovani, Ph.D. (PI, COO). He founded MDLab s.r.l., together with Luca Larcher and Luca Vandelli. He is a full-time employee of the company where he covers the role of COO. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, in 2009, with a thesis entitled “Modelling and Reliability of Innovative Flash Memories”. He has been a post-doc (2009-2010) and a fixed-term Assistant Professor (2011-2013) at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His research activity focuses on the electrical characterization, physical modelling and reliability of solid-state non-volatile memory (NVM) devices and logic transistors. He authored and co-authored more than 115 technical papers published on international journals and presented at international conferences. He has more than 1030 citations and a h –index of 16. He is a member of the technical committees of the International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications (since 2012) and of the European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis, ESREF (since 2015). He also served as committee member of IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (2013-2015), and IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (2012-2015). Now he is part of the Applied Materials (AMAT) Italia srl team.