DE MATTEIS MARCELLO

Marcello De Matteis obtained his degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain, in 2003, and subsequently earned a degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2004, as part of the Top Industrial Manager for Europe (TIME) double degree program between UPM and Politecnico di Milano.

He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Milano-Bicocca. In 2020, he was awarded the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) for Full Professor in the scientific area 09/E3 – Electronics.

Professional Experience and Research Activities

Since 2005, he has contributed to the development of 58 Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), serving as principal designer for 22 of them. These circuits have been implemented in a wide range of technologies (from 0.5 µm CMOS down to 28 nm CMOS, and 16 nm and 7 nm FinFET), and applied in various fields including neuroscience, sensors, 4G/5G/WLAN telecommunications, and particle physics experiments.

In 2004, he began his PhD at the Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, where in 2008 he became head of the Sensors and MEMS Laboratory within the Green Engine project. During this period, he collaborated with several major international companies and research centers including Infineon, IMEC, STMicroelectronics, Chipidea MIPS, ReadyTrace Inc., and the University of Pavia, working on baseband circuits for telecommunications in submicron CMOS technologies.

In 2012, he joined the Department of Physics at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where he served as technical lead for the development of ASICs for the ATLAS Muon Drift Tubes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), using IBM CMOS 0.13 µm technology, currently deployed in the Muon Drift Chambers of the ATLAS High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC).

In 2013, he coordinated the development of an ASIC for the automatic biasing of Low Noise Amplifiers (LNAs) based on High-Electron-Mobility Transistors (HEMTs), used as analog front-ends for receivers in the Large-Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) experiment, aimed at the study of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).

From 2015 to 2018, he was responsible for two Work Packages in the ScalTech28 and FinFet16 projects, funded by the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), focused on radiation-hard (rad-hard) design in 28 nm CMOS and 16 nm FinFET technologies. He also contributed to the MOSCAB (Materia Oscura a Bolle) dark matter experiment, working on the acquisition of acoustic signals generated by bubble nucleation processes in the detectors.

From 2018 to 2021, he served as Principal Investigator of the Proton Sound Detector experiment, funded by INFN and carried out in collaboration with the National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy (CNAO), Ludwig Maximilians Universität München (LMU), and INFN Catania.

He is currently Co-Principal Investigator of the INFN-funded experiments IONOTRACK (Ionoacoustic Tracking and Imaging of Particle Beams) and DEMOTRACK (Demonstrator of Ionoacoustic Particle Beams Tracking).

Within INFN, he also serves as Scientific Coordinator of the Milano-Bicocca unit in the IGNITE project (INFN Ground-Up Initiative for Microelectronics Development).

He is a collaborator in two projects funded under the Biunicrowd program: PaMELA and Tiny Neuron.

Since 2023, he has been leading Work Packages 00 and 04 of the MUSA (Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action) project, focused on the development of micro- and nanoelectronic systems for aerospace applications, in collaboration with Thales Italia.

He has served as scientific lead on numerous funded research projects, in partnership with international institutions and companies such as Infineon, the Max Planck Institute, and others, in the field of silicon integrated circuit design. He is currently responsible for the development of integrated circuits in 7 nm and 16 nm FinFET technology within the TSMC University FinFET Program, for which he serves as the internal reference for the University of Milano-Bicocca.

Publications and Editorial Activities

He is the author or co-author of more than 180 scientific publications, including 51 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and 7 book chapters. He has presented his work at over 30 international conferences, including 5 invited talks, primarily for his contributions in low-power analog filter design and radiation-hardened integrated circuits.

He has served as a member of the Technical Program Committee for the following international conferences: IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), IEEE Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuit Design and Technology (ICICDT), IEEE North-East Workshop on Circuits and Systems (NEWCAS).

He has also served as Editor and Guest Editor for the following journals: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (Wiley).

He is currently Associate Editor for: Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (World Scientific), Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (MDPI).