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He received a Master's degree in Physics in 2000 from the University of Genoa and a PhD in Physics in 2004 from the University of Hamburg (Germany). After spending a few years as a postdoc at SISSA, ICTP and ETH Zurich, he was appointed Junior Professor at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) in 2009 and was promoted to W2 Professor in 2016. Since October 2020, he is Associate Professor at Sapienza University of Rome   

She received her Master's degree in Physics in 1996 from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. She holds a Ph.D. in Material Science in 2001 from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. From 2000 to 2001 she worked as a Post-Doc at the University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany. From 2001 to 2010 she was with the Research Center Jülich, Germany. In 2010 she was with PDI. Since September 2019 she is with CNR-IMM Rome, Italy. Her current research interest focuses on phase-change materials for memory applications. 

He is full professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Milano-Bicocca since 2016. He holds a Ph.D and a Master in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from the International School for Advanced Studies SISSA-Trieste (1993 and 1991) and an undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Milano (1988). He spent few years as a postdoctoral fellow at SISSA (1993-1994) and at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung in Stuttgart, Germany (1994-1996). His current research activity is focused mostly on phase change materials for data storage. 

He received his Master's degree in Physics cum laude in 1991 from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and obtained his PhD in Physics in 1995. Since December 2015 he is Associate Professor (permanent staff) of Condensed Matter Physics at the Department of Physics, University of Rome Tor Vergata. In 2014 and 2015 he spent some months as Guest Scientist c/o PDI in Berlin, Germany. His current research activities include growth and characterization of 2D crystals and Phase Change Materials 

He received his master’s degree in physics in 1993 and holds a Ph.D. in Physics in 1998. In 1998-99 he was a post-Doc researcher at the University of Lecce (Italy). In 1999-2007 he was a researcher for INFM at the University of Parma (Italy). In 2007-2020 he became a staff researcher at CNR-IMM Agrate (Italy), dealing with the MOCVD growth and study of chalcogenide materials for Phase Change Memories, spintronics and thermoelectrics. He moved in 2020 to CNR-IMM, Rome, where continued his studies on phase change materials. Since 2023 he is a researcher at University of Rome Tor Vergata

He received the Laurea degree in Physics from the University of Catania, Italy, in December 1998. From 2007 he with the CNR-IMM Catania and he is the responsible of EBL facility, of a 6" Thermal Evaporator and of a Nanoindenter-Nanoscratch for Material Mechanical Nano-characterization. He focused the research activity on innovative nano-scaled PCM-Memories (Phase-Change Memory). 

She received her PhD in Microelectronics in 2014 from the University of Pavia (Italy). From 2014 to 2020 she was a postdoc at CNR-IMM Agrate (Italy) first and then at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). In 2020 she became tenured researcher at CNR-IMM Rome and then scientist at NaMLab (Dresden, Germany). Since 2019, she is Senior Member of IEEE. In 2021, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project MEMRINESS - Memristive Neurons and Synapses for Neuromorphic Edge Computing. Since January 2024, she is assistant professor at the University of Groningen (NL). Her research interests lie at the intersection of circuit design, emerging devices, and brain inspired computing. More specifically, they focus on the exploitation of the intrinsic physical characteristics of memristive devices to reproduce computational primitives of the brain in mixed neuromorphic-memristive systems.

He received his Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Catania (UNICT) in 2008 and the Diploma from the Scuola Superiore di Catania (SSC, the institute for advanced studies of UNICT) in 2009. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics in 2012 from UNICT. In 2012-2016 he was a Post-Doc at the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems of the National Research Council, CNR-IMM (Italy). In 2016-2017 he worked as Post-Doc Researcher at the University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany. In 2018-2019 he worked as Post-Doc Researcher at the CNR-IMM (Italy). Since November 2019 he is staff researcher with CNR-IMM Catania, Italy. His current research interest focuses on morphological, structural and chemical properties of phase-change materials. 

He obtained a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, studying electronic correlations in silver fluorides. In 2022 he joined the EMPHASIS project. He focused on molecular dynamics simulations of various thermodynamic states of phase-change materials. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Enrico Fermi Research Center, where he works on the development of optimal transport methods on networks . 

She obtained a CSC scholarship and completed a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics at Sapienza University of Rome. The main topic of her Ph.D. was the investigation of the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the supercooled liquid phase of phase-change materials. In 2024 she joined the EMPHASIS project. 

She received a Master’s degree in Science and technology of materials cum laude in 2017 and a PhD in chemistry in 2021 from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Since 2021 she works as Post-Doc researcher at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, dealing with the MBE growth and characterization of chalcogenide Phase Change Materials for memory applications . 

He received his master degree in material science and technology cum laude at the university of Rome Tor Vergata in September 2021. From November 2021 to March 2025 he was a PhD student at the University of Tor Vergata in the group of Prof. F. Arciprete. His current research actitivity is focused on the growth of 2D materials, phase-change materials (PCMs) and heterostructures to be implemented in PCM memories and neuromorphic devices . 

He received his Master's degree in Physics cum laude at Sapienza University of Rome in September 2022. His thesis was about the correlation between the fragility of the supercooled liquid phase of a rigid model of ortho-terphenyl and the vibrational dynamics of the respective glass, investigated by classical atomistic simulations. Since November 2022 he is a PhD student in the group of Prof. R. Mazzarello. His current research activity is focused on the theoretical modeling of phase-change superlattices based on antimony and on the study of the supercooled liquid phase of pure antimony and Ge-alloyed antimony, through ab-initio atomistic simulations augmented with machine-learned interaction potentials. 

He received his Master’s degree in Chemistry in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Science and Technology of Materials in 2014 from the University of Catania, Italy, after spending one year at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Since 2019 he works as Post-Doc researcher in the transmission electron microscopy group at the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems of the National Research Council (CNR-IMM) in Catania. His current research activity is focused on the structural and chemical characterization of different materials, including chalcogenide phase change materials, with particular interest on in-situ techniques. 

She received her PhD in Applied Electronics in 2018 from the Roma Tre University and her Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2010 from the Politecnico di Torino. She is a researcher in the field of bioelectronics since 2013, working at CNR (Italy), Walter Schottky Institut and INFN-Roma Tre. Since 2022 she is at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Her current research interests include phase-change memories for artificial neural networks. 

He is a PON PhD candidate in Computational Physics, focusing on the development and characterization of novel Phase Change Heterostructures for applications in Phase Change Memory and neuromorphic devices, with particular emphasis on heterostructures designed for low-power electronic devices .