Simone Bianconi

Expertise Remote Sensing, LiDAR, Laser Spectroscopy, Photodetectors, Material Science Simone Bianconi is a postdoctoral scholar at EPFL in the group of Tobias Kippenberg at the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements. His research interests focus on leveraging integrated photonics for laser ranging and sensing (e.g. LiDAR).He was previously at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech) as a postdoctoral fellow at the Microdevices Laboratory, where he worked on the research and development of innovative LiDAR and quantum sensing instrumentations.He obtained his PhD from Northwestern University in 2021, with a thesis on novel devices for infrared detection and imaging, which was awarded the «Best PhD dissertation» departmental award. Education PhD | Electrical Engineering 2021 – 2021 Northwestern University MS | Energy Engineering 2015 – 2015 Università di Bologna Professionals experiences Postdoctoral Fellow 2022–2023 Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech) Awards Best Dissertation Award Northwestern University 2022 Ryan Fellowship International Institute of Nanotechnology 2018