Prof Francesca Iacopi (UTS): new FLEET AI
Welcome to Francesca Iacopi, who joins FLEET as a Scientific Associate Investigator.
Professor Iacopi has over 20 years’ industrial and academic research expertise in semiconductor technologies, and currently leads Communications and Electronics Engineering at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Francesca’s work at UTS translates scientific advances in nanomaterials and novel device concepts into implementable technologies.
Within FLEET, she will investigate graphene for low-energy electronic devices, and she will liaise with the IRDS, advising potential applications and integration strategies for novel technologies generated by FLEET researchers.
Francesca was recipient of an MRS Gold Graduate Student Award (2003), an ARC Future Fellowship (2012), and a Global Innovation Award in Washington DC (2014) and was listed among the most innovative engineers by Engineers Australia (2018). Francesca is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and regular volunteer for IEEE and MRS, and was appointed in 2019 as IEEE Electron Device Society representative to the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) working group.