Dr. Andrea Ferrero of Politecnico di Torino

The talk will present the most modern solutions for multiport measurements at microwave frequencies as well as advanced calibration techniques.

Biography: Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Andrea Ferrero

Born in 1962 Andrea Ferrero took the Laurea and the Ph.D. in Electornics at Politecnico di Torino in 1987 and 1992 respectively. During the same period he joined Hewlett Packard Microwave Technology Division in Santa Rosa as visiting scientist and started his career in the same Politecnico di Torino as Assistant Professor.
In 1988 he worked for Aeritalia (Gruppo Sistemi Avionici) as Microwave Measurement System consultant on EMC problems for Avionics.
In 1994 he won the Canadian National Scientist Fellowship and spent one year at the Ecole Politechnic of Montreal. In 1997 he won the Italian National Contest for Associate Professor Chair becaming Associate Professor of Politecnico di Torino for Microwave Measurements. In 2006 he became Full Professor at the Politecnico di Torino.
He currently teaches Electronic Instrumentation and Measurements and Microwave Instrumentation in the Electronic Engineering course.
In the past he taught Avionic Sensor and Display for the Master in Avionic class of Alenia Aeronautica.
Since 1994 he is an IEEE reviewer for Microwave Theory and Technique and Instrumentation and Measurement Societies as well as other international scientific Journals. In 1994 he won the Microwave Best Presentation award at the 1994 MMT-S. Since 2000 Prof. Ferrero became a member of the Technical Committee (MTT11) for microwave measurement of the IEEE MTT Society and member of the TPC 27 of the MTT symposium. In 2006 he became senior member of the IEEE and won the IEEE ARFTG Technology Award for advance in Network Analyzer Calibration and Non linear microwave measurement contributions. He has been an international reviewer for the EC metrology program. In 2010 he became Distinguished Microwave Lecture for the IEEE MTT Society and from 2011 he is IEEE Fellow.
Prof. Ferrero worked as consultant on instruments and measurements for the major semiconductor companies and instrumentation makers like: Intel, Infineon, HP, ST Microelectronics, Freescale, Agilent, Anritsu and many others overall the world and his microwave measurements design and calibration techniques have been widely adopted in commercial as well as research test systems.
Prof. Ferrero is the author or coauthor of over 80 papers on microwave technologies and measurements techniques and his current interests are focused on device characterization, calibration techniques and measurement system design.
Finally he is a competition glider pilot with more than 20 years of activity, 2000 flying hours on different gliders and small airplanes.

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