Maurizio Valle

Maurizio Valle (MV) received the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering in 1985 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Computer Science in 1990 from the University of Genova, Italy. In 1992 he joined the University of Genova, firs as an assistant and in 2007 as an associate professor. From December 2019, MV is full professor at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Genova; MV leads the Connected Objects, Smart Materials, Integrated Circuits – COSMIC laboratory. MV has been and is in charge of many research contracts and projects funded at local, national and European levels and by Italian and foreign companies. Professor Valle is co-author of more than 200 papers on international scientific journals and conference proceedings and of the book: Robotic Tactile Sensing Technologies and System, Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, pp. 1–248, 2013 (ISBN: 978-94007-0578-4). His research interests include electronic and microelectronic systems, material integrated sensing systems, tactile sensors and electronic-skin systems. He is IEEE senior member and member of the IEEE CAS Society.