Carlo Trigona

Carlo Trigona (Member, IEEE) received the M.S. degree (cum laude) in automation engineering and control of complex systems and the Ph.D. degree in electronic, automation, and control of complex systems from the University of Catania, Catania, Italy, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He is currently the Associate Professor of Electronic Instrumentations and Measurements with the Department of Electrical Electronic and Computer Engineering (DIEEI), University of Catania. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Ph.D. Student with the University of Catania. From 2010 to 2011, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and a Lecturer with the University Montpellier II—LIRMM Montpellier, France, from 2011 to 2017, as a Postdoctoral Fellow and a Lecturer with DIEEI, University of Catania, and from 2017 to 2018, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany. From 2018 to 2020, he worked as an Assistant Professor of Electronic Instrumentation and Measurements with DIEEI, University of Catania, where he worked as a Tenure Track Professor of Electronic Instrumentation and Measurements with the same department from 2020 to 2023. He is involved in several national and international academic and engineering projects as a Coordinator and a Partner. Regarding his research activity, he has coauthored more than 200 scientific publications, with more than 2000 total citations, which include chapters in books, papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, and patents. His research interests include sensors, transducers, MEMS, NEMS, fluxgate magnetometers, energy harvesting, green and biodegradable sensors, and transducers based on living organisms and living sensors. Prof. Trigona has been receiving several awards for his research activity since 2007, including the 2020 IEEE I&M Outstanding Young Engineer Award for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of I&M concept in sensors and transducers for energy harvesting. He has been contributing in the Instrumentation and Measurement community with several activities also including an editor and a reviewer for several prestigious journals since 2006.