Biography:Silvano Donati
Silvano Donati is a scientist in photonics. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Pavia where he has been Full Professor for 30 years and created the Electro-Optical Engineering Group.
Career
Donati started his career at CISE (a Research Center of the Electrical Generating Board) in 1966, initially with a 1-year CNR Scholarship, and from 1967 to 1975 hired full-time by CISE. Here he carried out researches on nuclear electronics and detectors, and on the nascent photonic instrumentation, notably telemeters, interferometers, and speckle pattern vibration sensors. Meanwhile, from 1967 to 1971 he has been a teacher of the course in "Electronics" at ISTIM, the Master on mechanical engineering.
In 1971 he was appointed a lecturer at University of Pavia for the just started curriculum in Electronic Engineering, and there he set up and equipped the Laboratorio Circuiti for the circuit design teaching aided by hands-on experiments of assembling and testing, the first of the genre in Italy.[1]
In 1975 he become "Professore Stabilizzato", or tenured, moved full-time to University of Pavia and started teaching his newly activated courses of "Electronic Materials and Technologies" and "Electro-Optical Systems", this last being the first course in Photonics of Italian Universities.[2] In 1981 he was appointed Full Professor at University of Pavia, position he held until 2010.[2]
During the years, he gradually improved the lecture notes of courses he delivered to students up to the point of publishing two textbooks: "Photodetectors" 448 pages, published by Prentice Hall 2000,[3] and "ElectroOptical Instrumentation", 442 pages, published 2004 by Prentice Hall, translated in Chinese (Guang Dien Yi Chi) in 2006.[4] From 2010 to 2014 he continued to give courses as a Lecturer, and in 2015 he was awarded of the emeritus Professorship.
He also developed activity and taught courses in several Universities of Taiwan as a Visiting Professor: NTU (Taipei) in 2005, NSYSU (Kaohsiung) in 2007 to 2010, NCKU (Tainan) in 2012, NCHU (Taichung) in 2013–14, NTUT (Taipei) in 2015–17, again NTU (Taipei) 2018–20, and presently NCHU (Taichung).[5][6]
Award and honors
- 2002 he received the elevation to "Fellow Member" from IEEE[7]
- 2003 Optica Fellow[8]
- 2009 he received the "Distinguished Lecturer Award" from the IEEE Photonics Society[7]
- 2009 he received the elevation to "Life Fellow Member" from IEEE[7]
- 2011 he received the "Distinguished Service" Award of the IEEE Photonics Society[9]
- 2015 he received the "IEEE PhoS "Aaron Kressel Award" for best research in semiconductor lasers[7]
- SPIE (permanent position)[10]
References
- ↑ "Donati". http://www-9.unipv.it/donati/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Silvano Donati" (in it-IT). https://labeo.unipv.it/wordpress/people/silvano-donati/.
- ↑ "BOOK REVIEW Photodetectors: Devices, Circuits, and Applications" (in en). Measurement Science and Technology 12 (5): 653–653. 1 May 2001. doi:10.1088/0957-0233/12/5/703. ISSN 0957-0233. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0957-0233/12/5/703.
- ↑ Boone, B.G. (December 2004). "Electro-Optical Instrumentation (Sensing and Measuring with Lasers) [Book Review"]. IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine 7 (4): 75–75. doi:10.1109/MIM.2004.1383472. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1383472.
- ↑ "Il prof. Silvano Donati racconta la sua esperienza di Visiting Professor a Taiwan" (in it-IT). https://news.unipv.it/?p=56138.
- ↑ "Io, expat fra le tensioni di Taiwan "Minacce ma la guerra non ci sarà"" (in it). 14 April 2023. https://www.ilgiorno.it/milano/cronaca/io-expat-fra-le-tensioni-di-taiwan-minacce-ma-la-guerra-non-ci-sara-94e481cc.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "Silvano Donati". https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37273845200.
- ↑ "2003 Fellows" (in en). https://www.optica.org/get_involved/awards_and_honors/fellow_members/elected_fellows/2003_fellows/.
- ↑ "IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Service Award". https://ieeephotonics.org/awards/distinguished-service-award/.
- ↑ "Silvano Donati". https://spie.org/profile/Silvano.Donati-7753?SSO=1.
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