Dr. Simone Pisana

Biography

Simone Pisana received a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science and an M.A.Sc. (Honors) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Cambridge, receiving a PhD in Engineering in 2008. His graduate work focused on the electronic properties of amorphous semiconductors and novel nanostructured materials, including carbon nanotubes, semiconducting nanowires, and graphene. In 2008, he joined Hitachi Global Storage Technologies as a Postdoctoral Researcher and continued to become a Research Staff Member in 2010 and Senior Research Manager in 2014. In industry, he worked on nanoscale magnetic field sensing devices and energy-assisted magnetic recording technologies. Dr. Pisana joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University in 2014 as an Associate Professor. His research aims to explore transport phenomena in nanoscale devices and materials for energy-efficient nanoelectronic device engineering. He is a member of the IEEE Magnetics Society and the Materials Research Society, having authored 37 refereed journal articles with a total of 2,700 citations and holds 12 U.S. patents and applications. He received the University of Toronto Fellowship in 2002-2004 and the Young Scientist Award from the European Materials Research Society in 2007, participating as an Outstanding Young Scientist at the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany.

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