Francesco Rizzi

Francesco Rizzi received the Ph.D. degree in physics in 2004. He is currently a Team Leader of Robotics-MEMS Research Platform with the Center of Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Lecce. He held the post-doctoral training at the Department of Physics, Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., where he won an Experienced Researcher Marie Curie Fellowship. His research interests and activities are related on bioinspired micro electromechanical systems design and fabrication for applications in biological and environmental sensing, artificial hair cells fabrication for flow sensing in robotics. He has authored 24 manuscripts on international journals and proceedings of international conferences, two patents, and two book chapters.