Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo

Expertise MEMS/NEMS - design, analysis, fabrication and characterization Sensors, Oscillators, nonlinear and coupled dynamics, fundamental noise processes Guillermo Villanueva is an Associate Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausane (EPFL), Switzerland, in the Mechanical Engineering Institute (IGM). Before joining EPFL he was a Marie Curie post-doctoral scholar at DTU (Denmark) and Caltech (California, US); and before a post-doc at EPFL-LMIS1. He received his M.Sc. in Physics in Zaragoza (Spain) and his PhD from the UAB in Barcelona (Spain).Since the start of his PhD (2002), Prof. Villanueva has been active in the fields of NEMS/MEMS for sensing, having expertise from the design and fabrication to the characterization and applicability. He has co-authored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 130 contributions to international conferences. He is serving, or has served, on the program committees of IEEE-NEMS, IEEE-Sensors, MNE, IEEE-FCS, Transducers and IEEE-MEMS. He is editor in chief of the Physical Sensors section of MDPI Sensors. He has co-organized MNE2014, SNC2015, the short courses at Transducers 2019 and the 16th International Workshop on Nanomechanical Sensors (NMC2019). Education PhD | Microelectronic engineering 2002 – 2006 CNM-IMB-CSIC/UAB Directed by Res. Prof. Joan Bausells Ms.Sc. | Finite Element Modelling 2005 – 2005 UNED Ms.Sc. | Microelectronic Engineering 2002 – 2004 UAB Ms.Sc. | Physics 1998 – 2002 Zaragoza Professionals experiences Associate Professor 2022–2025 EPFLTenure Track Assistant Professor 2017–2022 EPFLSNSF Assistant Professor 2013–2019 EPFLMarie Curie Post-Doctoral Scholar 2012–2013 DTUMarie Curie Post-Doctoral Scholar 2009–2012 CaltechPost-Doctoral Researcher 2007–2009 EPFLResearch Assistant 2002–2006 CNM-IMB-CSIC Teaching & PhD PhD Students Federico Peretti, Furkan Ayhan, Leticia de Sousa, Melania Coronese, Jasmin Spettel, Saba Gholizadeh, Florian Fernand Hartmann, Nan Xu, Fatemeh Arefi, Chenhao Wang, Yara Abdelaal, Mohammadsadegh Namnabat, Matteo Gambato Guidastri Past EPFL PhD Students Annalisa De Pastina, Kaitlin Howell, Andrea Lozzi, Muhammad Faizan, Damien Maillard, Soumya Yandrapalli, Dorian Giraud Herle, Marco Liffredo, Daniel Moreno Garcia, Silvan Stettler Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Morgan Mc Kay Monroe Courses Mechanical vibrations ME-332 In this course we study the modal dynamics of mechanical structures. During the course we will learn key concepts like Normal modes, effective mass and stiffness, and eigenfrequencies. Micro/Nanomechanical devices ME-426 In this course we will see an overview of the exciting field of Micro and Nanomechanical systems. We will go over the dfferent scaling laws that dominate the critical parameters, how size affects material properties, how these devices are manufactured, designed and later used. Awards SNSF Professorship Swiss National Science Foundation 2017