Sandro Carrara's Biography

Sandro Carrara, Senior Research Scientist, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Sandro Carrara is Senior Scientist and Lecturer at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Professor of nano-bio-sensing and micro/nano interfaces at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Biophysics (DIBE) of the University of Genoa. He was a Professor in biophysics at the University of Genoa and a Professor of nanobiotechnology at the University of Bologna. Sandro Carrara graduated in Electronics in Technical school of Albenga, got a Master in Physics from University of Genoa and received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from University of Padoa. His main scientific interest is on electrical phenomena mediated by nano-structured molecular thin-films. He currently has a special focus on development of Protein and DNA based CMOS bio-chips. He has more then 90 scientific publications and 10 patents. He has Top-25 Hottest-Articles (2004, 2005, 2008, and 2009) published in highly-ranked International-Journals Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Sensors and Actuators B, and Thin Solid Films. He received the best work award at the NanoEurope Symposium in 2009 (Rapperswil), the bronze leaf prize in 2010 (Berlin), and the golden leaf prize in 2009 (Cork) at the IEEE International Conference PRIME. In 2006, he received the best referees’ award from Biosensor and Bioelectronics journal. He also won a NATO Advanced Research prize in 1996 for his original contribution to the physics of single-electron conductivity in nano-particles. From 1997 to 2000, he was a member of an international committee at the ELETTRA Synchrotron in Trieste. From 2000 to 2003, he was scientific leader of a National Research Program (PNR) in the filed of Nanobiotechnology. He is now an internationally esteemed expert of the evaluation panel of the Academy of Finland in a research program for the years 2010-2013. Sandro Carrara is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the BioNanoScience journal. He also is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and of the IEEE Sensors Journals. He is referee of other eleven international journals. He is/was Chair in boards of several International Conferences such as IEEE-IWASI/Bari-2011, ISMICT/Montreux-2011, BioCAS/San Diego-2011, BioCAS/Cyprus-2010, BioCAS/Beijing-2009, and NanoNets/Luzern-2009