_________ RESUME_________ Silvano Donati___________
Education: Graduation (Laurea) in Physics, cum laude, University of Milano, 1966
Scientific
Production:
360+
scientific publications
Two
books by Prentice Hall, one with Chinese, India and e-book editions,
one book in Italian,
several book
chapters
Editor
and/or Chairman of 13 Conference
Proceedings
Guest Editor of 9 Special
Issues in International Journals
H
factor 35, 6000+ citations
Service
to the Scientific Community:
Counselor, IEEE Student
Branch of Pavia (2010-present)
President,
IEEE Italy Section (2007-09)
Counselor,
OSA Int’l Advisory Committee (2006-09)
Vice
President, IEEE Italy Section (2005-07)
IEEE
LEOS Board of Governors Elected Member
(2005-2007)
Vice President, IEEE LEOS Membership,
Region 8 (2002-04)
Editor, Alta Frequenza-Rivista
di Elettronica, 1986-92
Chairman and Founder,
Italian IEEE LEOS Chapter
Chairman, AEI Optoelectronics Society 1992-95
Member of IEC-CEI Standard Committee TC-76 and TC-86
A
number of services to the IEEE:
Institute, Society, Region and Section
Awards
and Acknowledgements:
- Aaron
Kressel Award from IEEE Photonics Society, 2015
- Elevation to Emeritus Professor status, University
of Pavia, 2015
- Distinguished
Service Award, IEEE Photonics Society, 2011
- Distinguished
Lecturer Award, IEEE LEOS/Photonics Society, 2006/07
and 2007/08
- Elevation to Life Fellow Member, IEEE, 2009
- Elevation to Fellow Member, IEEE, 2003
- Elevation to Fellow Member,
Optical Society of America, 2003
- seven
Awards from LEOS Society and IEEE Region 8 awarded for the activity of the
LEOS Italian Chapter
- Guglielmo Marconi Prize, awarded by AEI
1999, in recognition of prominent scientific career
- Elevation to Senior Member, IEEE 1999.
- Elevation to Socio Benemerito
(Meritorious Member), AEI 1998.
- ElectroOptics Prize, awarded from the Optoelectronics
Society of AEI, 1996, for the best research work in Optoelectronics.
- Ottavio Bonazzi Prize, awarded by AEI, in 1974 and in 1996, for the best experimental research
in Electronics.
- Philip Morris Prize, awarded by Philip Morris
1995, for the prominent research work in electrical Engineering.
- Telecommunication
Gold Medal, awarded by Siemens Telecomunicazioni
Italia, in 1991 and in 1993, for research in Communications.
- Milano
AEI Prize, awarded by Sezione di Milano of AEI,
1990, for the best research work in Electronics.
- A paper [29d] included in the SPIE Milestone
in Optics Series; two papers excerpted in textbooks, Desurvire "Erbium Doped Optical
Amplifiers" [48d] and Agrawal "Nonlinear Fiberoptics" [57d].
Courses Taught:
at University of Pavia, Faculty of Engineering:
Optical
Communications
(1994-2001),
ElectroOptical Systems (1975-80), first course on Photonics given in Italian University
Optoelectronic
Instrumentation (1980 to 2014),
Photodetectors
(1980 to 2014),
Electronic
Materials and Technologies (1977-91),
Electronic
Circuits Design (1971-1977)
at National Taiwan University: Optoelectronic
Instrumentation (2005)
at Sun Yat
Sen University, Kaohsiung: Optoelectronic
Instrumentation
(2007 and 2008)
at Universidad Catolica
del Peru: Optoelectronic
Instrumentation short course(May 2007)
at National Cheng Kong University, Tainan:
Optoelectronic
Instrumentation
(2012)
at National Chung Hsing
University, Taichung: Optoelectronic
Instrumentation
(2013,14) Photodetectors (2013,14)
at ISTIM, School of Engineering, Milano: Electronics (4 years)
Mentoring:
125 Thesis of Master in Electronic
Engineering supervised
21 Thesis of PhD in Electronic Engineering
supervised
Promoting the
growth:
of the Electrooptics
Group in Pavia:
founded 1975, started with a single Researcher and a Master
graduate – today it features 4 Professors (2 Chair, 1 Associate 1 Assistant) 1
staff Technician, and additionally 5-7 post-Docs, 5-7 PhD student, 2-4
graduates (Group photo 1995,_ 1998,_ 2001,_ 2005)
Main research activity and results – see_ RESEARCH activity
briefing and summary