Professors
Prof. Luigi Zeni
Luigi Zeni is full professor in electronics & photonics at University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, president of the Research Consortium on Advanced Remote Sensing Systems – CO.RI.S.T.A. and Rector’s delegate for technology transfer activities. He has been, from 2001 to 2012, vice-director of the Department of Information Engineering and, from 2013 to 2021 member of the Board of Directors of University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. He took his degree in Electronic Engineering, summa cum laude, from University of Naples in 1988 and his Ph.D. in Electronics and Computer Science, from Italian Ministry of University in 1992. He has been research assistant at the Department of Electronic Engineering of University of Naples "Federico II" and, from 1998 to 2006, he has been associate professor of Electronics at the Second University of Naples. He worked at DIMES of TU-DELFT (The Netherlands) as a visiting scientist. He has been visiting professor at the University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania). He has been national coordinator of PRIN projects, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) in 2000 and 2005, has been scientific coordinator of research contracts with public and private institutions, local coordinator and general coordinator for projects funded the European Union in 2010 and 2020. He serves as reviewer for several international journals. He is reviewer for PRIN projects, industrial research projects and European Research Council projects. He has been member of the Management Committee of the COST 299 (FIDES) and of the Management Committee of the COST TD1001 (OFSESA). He is member of the Editorial Boards of Sensors & Transducers Journal and Sensors. He is member of the Steering Committee: Bilateral China-Italy Workshop on Photonics for Communication and Sensing, Xi’an –China, Guest Editor of the special issue “Optical biosensors” of the journal “Sensors”, Member of the Scientific Committee of the First Mediterranean Photonics Conference – Ischia – Italy, Member of the Scientific Committee of the National Conference Fotonica 2011 – Genoa – Italy, Member of the Technical Program Committee of 2012 IEEE International Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference - San Diego CA - USA , Member of the Executive Committee of the National Conference Fotonica2014 – Naples – Italy, Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Sensors Engineering and Electronics Instrumental Advances (SEIA' 2015), Member of the Technical Program Committee of European Workshop on Optical fiber Sensors (EWOFS), Co-Chair of the Academic & Technical Committee of the 6th International Forum on Opto-electronic Sensor-based Monitoring in Geo-engineering – Nanjing China 2017, Guest Editor of the special issue “Optical Biochemical Sensor Systems and Applications” of the journal “Sensors”, General Chair del 7th International Symposium on Sensor Science 9–11 May 2019, Napoli, Italy.
He is founder of the Spin-off company OPTOSENSING
His teaching activity includes digital electronics and optoelectronics.
He has been supervisor of many degree theses and about 20 Ph.D. students.
His research interests include the design and realization of optical fiber sensors and biosensors for structural and environmental monitoring, optoelectronic and nano-photonic devices for medical diagnostics and bioelectrics for intra-cellular manipulation and drug delivery. He is author of about 200 papers in international journals, more than 150 publications at international conferences and 12 patents. His scientific qualification according to SCOPUS: H-Index 35, Citations: 4546; Documents: 345.
Prof. Aldo Minardo
Aldo Minardo is full professor of electronics at University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. He took his degree in Electronic Engineering, summa cum laude, from University of Naples in 2000 and his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the Second University of Naples in 2003. In 2005 he has been awarded from the IEEE Photonics Society award for the best doctoral thesis in Optoelectronics discussed in Italy in 2003-2004.
In 2010 he was scientific coordinator, for the Research Unit of the Second University of Naples, of the FP7 Project "Fiber Optic Sensor Application for Structural Health Monitoring - FOSAS", aimed at the development of punctual and distributed optical fiber sensors for aeronautical structural monitoring.
From 2014 to 2019 he was MC (Management Committee) substitute for Italy under the COST action TU1402 "Quantifying the value of structural health monitoring".
From July 2016 to March 2019 he was the scientific coordinator of the H2020 Project “Brillouin Distributed sensor for Aeronautical Structures ”, during which a prototype for high spatial resolution strain and temperature measurements was realized.
He serves as a reviewer for several international journals. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). In 2013 he was co-founder of the Spin-off company OPTOSENSING.
His teaching activity concerns digital electronics. He has been supervisor of many degree theses. His research interests mainly deal with the development and characterization of fiber optic sensors for applications in the following areas: Civil engineering, aerospace, geotechnics, environmental monitoring.
He is author of over 200 publications in international journals and conferences and of several national and international patents. His H-Index is 28, according to SCOPUS.
Prof. Nunzio Cennamo
Nunzio Cennamo was born in Italy in 1975. He received the master degree in electronic engineering in 2002 and the PhD degree in electronic engineering in 2005, both from the Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy. He is a Professor of Electronics at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (Naples), Italy. His research interests include the design and fabrication of optical fiber sensors, chemical sensors, biosensors and optoelectronic devices. He is the author of more than 180 international journal and conference papers and more than 10 patents.
He is cofounder of the Spin Off "MORESENSE srl" in Milan (Fondazione Filarete, Milan -Italy).
He is an Associate Editor of “Photonics Research” (OSA), of “Applied Sciences“ (MDPI), and "Sensors" (MDPI).
He is an Organizer and General Chair of several Conferences, the “IEEE Sensor Applications Symposium” (SAS 2024), Naples (Italy) July 23-25, “7th International Symposium on Sensor Science” (I3S 2019) 9-11 May 2019, Naples (Italy), and of several editions of the “International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences” (ASEC 2021, ASEC 2022, ASEC 2023, ASEC 2024).
He is a Publicity Chair of two editions (the 6th and 7th) of the “IEEE International Symposium M&N (18-20 July 2022 Padua - Italy and 3-5 July 2024 Rome - Italy).
He is an Invited Speaker in several Webinars, Summer Schools, and in International Conferences.
He is an Organizer/Chair of several Special Sessions in International Conferences and a Member of several Scientific Committee.
He is a Principal Investigator of several national Projects and Coordinator of the Local Unit of national and international Projects.
Research fellows and Post-doc
Agnese Coscetta
Agnese Coscetta is a Post-doc at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, where she received the master degree in Electronic Engineering and the PhD in Industrial and Information Engineering in 2012. Her research interests include the design of optical fiber distributed sensors based on Brillouin scattering.
Ester Catalano
Ester Catalano is a Post-doc at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, where she received the master degree in Electronic Engineering and the PhD in Industrial and Information Engineering in 2019. Her research interests include the design of optical fiber distributed sensors based on Brillouin scattering as like BOTDA based distributed optical fiber sensors: novel configurations for optimized performances and novel applications on tapered fibres based for biosensors implementations.
Francesco Arcadio
Francesco Arcadio is a Post-doc at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, where he received the master degree in Electronic Engineering and the PhD in Industrial and Information Engineering in 2018 and 2021 respectively. His research interests include the design and fabrication of optical fiber sensors and biosensors. He is also cofounder of the Spin-Off company MORESENSE SRL.
PhD Students
Luca Pasquale Renzullo
Present position: PhD Student at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.
PhD Thesis: Optical Chemical Sensors & Biosensors
Advisor: Prof. Nunzio Cennamo
Ines Tavoletta
Present position: PhD Student at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.
PhD Thesis: Optical Chemical Sensors & Biosensors
Advisor: Prof. Nunzio Cennamo
Rosalba Pitruzzella
Present position: PhD Student at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.
PhD Thesis: Optical Chemical Sensors & Biosensors
Advisor: Prof. Nunzio Cennamo
Riccardo Rovida
Present position: PhD Student at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.
PhD Thesis: Optical Chemical Sensors & Biosensors
Advisor: Prof. Nunzio Cennamo
Raffaele Vallifuoco
Present position: PhD Student at University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.
PhD Thesis: Distributed multiparametric optical fiber sensors
Advisor: Prof. Aldo Minardo
Rizwan Zahoor
Present position: PhD Student at University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.
PhD Thesis: Distributed optical fiber acoustic sensors.
Advisor: Prof. Aldo Minardo
Domenico del Prete
Present position: PhD Student at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.
PhD Thesis: Nanostructure Sensors and innovation applications
Advisor: Prof. Nunzio Cennamo
Fiore Capasso
Present position: PhD Student at University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.
PhD Thesis: Novel applications with IoT for BioChemical Sensors.
Advisor: Prof. Nunzio Cennamo
Alumni
Romeo Bernini
Present position: Research Directorat Institute for electromagnetic sensing of the Environment (IREA)- National research Council (CNR).
PhD thesis: An optical sensing technique for dopant profiling in microelectronics and optoelectronics
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Stefania Campopiano
Present position: Full professor in Electronics at the University of Naples Parthenope where he coordinates the course of studies in Information Engineering
PhD Thesis: Integrated antiresonant optical waveguides for sensing applications
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Aldo Minardo
Present position: Full Professor in Electronics at the Dept of Engineering -UniversityofCampania Luigi Vanvitelli
PhD Thesis: Fiber-optic distributed strain/temperature sensors based on stimulated Brillouin scattering
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Nunzio Cennamo
Present position: Full Professor in Electronics at University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
PhD Thesis: Integrated optical planar waveguides for biosensors
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Genni Testa
Present position: Researcher at the Institute for Electromagnetic Detection of the Environment (CNR-IREA).
PhD Thesis: Integrated optofluidic interferometric devices based on liquid core ARROW waveguides
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Stefania Romeo
Present position: Researcher at the Institute for Electromagnetic Detection of the Environment (CNR-IREA).
PhD Thesis: Pulsed power technology for Bioelectrics: realization of a nanosecond, high-voltage, Blumlein- type pulse generator and pilot biological experiments
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Flavio Mottola
Present position: Senior Validation Engineer and Technical Leader for Pharma qualifications.
PhD Thesis: Metal-Cladding Leaky Waveguides for Sensing Applications.
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Elbano De Nuccio
Present position: Electronic Engineer for MBDA Italy Spa (located at Roma).
PhD Thesis: Silicon Integrated Optofluidic Devices Based On Hollow Core Arrow
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Laura Conte
Present position: Guest Researcher at IOW-Leibniz Institute for the Baltic Sea Research
PhD Thesis: Polymeric optical fiber sensors based on propagating and localized surface plasmons
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Luigi Bibbò
Present position: Assistant Professor at University of Reggio Calabria
PhD Thesis: Sensors based on plasmonic resonance in optical fiber and photonic crystal
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Alessio Cipullo
Present position: Head of Technical Affairs at ElettricitàFutura
PhD Thesis: Ground Testing Methodologies Improvement in Plasma Wind Tunnels using Optical Diagnostics
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Agnese Coscetta
Present position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
PhD Thesis: Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Ester Catalano
Present position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
PhD Thesis: BOTDA based distributed optical fiber sensors: novel configurations for optimized performances
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Francesco Mattiello
Present position: High School Professor
PhD Thesis: Nanostructured optical sensors based on Surface Plasmon Resonance
Advisor:Prof. Luigi Zeni
Reem Sweid
Present position:
PhD Thesis: Optical devices for Nano-Plasmonic Biosensingand Tweezers Applications
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Annalisa d’Arco
Present position: Postdoctoral Researcher - SBAI Department University of Rome 'La Sapienza'.
PhD Thesis: Nonlinear microscopy based on stimulated Raman scattering
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Chiara Perri
Present position: Scientist
PhD Thesis: BioChemical Sensors
Advisor: Prof. Luigi Zeni
Enis Cerri
Present position: Researcher at RSE (Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico)
PhD Thesis: Optical fiber distributed acoustic sensors based on Rayleigh scattering
Advisor: Prof. Aldo Minardo
Visiting Researchers
Dr. Mimimorena Seggio: University of Verona (Italy)
Dr. Filipa Sequeira: University of Aveiro (Portugal)
Dr. Niel Nother: Director at fibrisTerre Systems GmbH (Germany)
Dr. Ruben Ruiz Lombera: R&D technican AIMEN Centro Tecnológico (Spain)
Prof. Ander ZORNOZA: Professor at Universidad del País Vasco (Spain)
Prof. Ramona Galatus: Full Professor University of Cluji-Napoca (Romania)
Dr. Liu Xiaoyan: Lecturer at Changchun University of Technology, Changchun (China)
