Andrea Carlo Ferrari (born 1972) earned a PhD in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

from the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

. after obtaining a Laurea in

nuclear engineering Nuclear engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of breaking down atomic nuclei ( fission) or of combining atomic nuclei (fusion), or with the application of other sub-atomic processes based on the principles of n ...

Polytechnic University of Milan The Polytechnic University of Milan () is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design. Founded in 186 ...

, in

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. He was also awarded an ScD (Doctor of Science) from the

. He is the Founder and

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of the Cambridge Graphene Centre at the

, and the EPSRC

Doctoral Training Centre Doctoral Training Centres (DTCs; also called Centres for Doctoral TrainingCentr ...

in Graphene Technology. Prof. Ferrari is the Science and Technology Officer and the Chair of the Management Panel of the

Graphene Flagship The Graphene Flagship is a European Union scientific research initiative. With a budget of €1 billion, it is one of the large scale initiatives organized by the Future and Emerging Technologies program, along with the Human Brain Project and th ...

, one of the biggest research initiatives ever funded by the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...

Awards

Ferrari is a Fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

, the

Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, research and application. It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide membership of over 20,000. The IOP is the Physica ...

, the Materials Research Society, the Optical Society, the

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, the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

, and the

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Ro ...

. He is also a Member of Academia Europaea. Among others, he has received the following awards: *

Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award was an award made by the Royal Society from 2000 to 2020. It was administered by the Royal Society and jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the UK Office of Science and Technology, to provide ...

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Mercer Award for Innovation *Marie Curie Excellence Award *

Philip Leverhulme Prize The Philip Leverhulme Prize is awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. The prize schem ...

*EU-40 Materials Prize. Ferrari has also received 4

European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...

grants. Ferrari's papers have been cited over 140,000 times yielding a h-index of 126. He has been included on a number of highly cited researchers lists including the list of scientists with h-index beyond 100.

Research

Ferrari is a leading researcher in graphene and related materials, having pioneered bulk production, mass scale identification by optical and spectroscopic means, implementation in composites, printed and flexible electronics, lasers, modulators, detectors, and many others. He also gave seminal contributions to the growth, characterization and modelling of diamond and diamond-like carbon, amorphous, disordered and nanostructured carbons, carbon nanotubes, and nanowires. He investigated their applications for coating, optoelectronics and sensing. He worked on non-linear optical properties of carbon nanotubes for photonic devices, and on layered materials for single photon emission and quantum technology applications.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrari, Andrea C. 1972 births Living people Alumni of the University of Cambridge Polytechnic University of Milan alumni Fellows of the American Physical Society Place of birth missing (living people) Engineering professors at the University of Cambridge