Mihai Adrian Ionescu#
| Membership Number: | 7301 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://people.epfl.ch/adrian.ionescu?lang=en |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2314-8887 |
| X: | @AMIonescu |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-m-ionescu-5a51724/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 06/2012 ‐ present Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Full Professor
- 01/2016‐03/2016 Invited Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
- 03/2005 ‐ 06/2012 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Associate Professor & Director/Founder of Nanolab laboratory
- 2008 to 2011 Director of Doctoral Program in Microsystems and Microelectronics (EDMI), EPFL.
- 2003 ‐ 2006 Director of the Institute of Microelectronics & Microsystems, EPFL.
- 05/1999 ‐ 03/2005 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Assistant Professor
- 11/1998‐05/1999 Stanford University, U.S.A., Center for Integrated Systems, Visiting Researcher
- 01/1998‐10/1998 Commissariat Energie Atomique (CEA) – LETI, Grenoble, France, Post‐doctoral Researcher
- 1994 ‐ 1997 Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Attaché Temporaire de Recherche et Enseignement (ATER) & PhD student
- 1991‐ 1994 University Politehnica Bucharest, Assistant Professor and PhD Student
Fields of Scholarship
- Single electron transistors
- Integrated biosensors
- M/NEMS devices
- Energy efficient devices
- CMOS
- Quantum computing
- Edge AI technologies
- Nanotechnology
- Nanoelectronics
- Semiconductors
Honours and Awards
- 2024 IEEE Technical Fields Cledo Brunetti Award for “leadership and contributions to the field of energy‐efficient steep slope devices and technologies.”
- 2024 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania
- 2017 IEEE Electron Devices Society George E. Smith Award for the best paper of the Electron Device Letters (EDL) Journal 2017 (over 400 articles published in IEEE EDL 2017)
- 2016 Outstanding Achievement Award 2015, Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (SATW)
- 2013 IBM Faculty Award ‐ Engineering
- 2011: Certificate of Excellence in Future Emerging Technologies of the European Commission, FET Flagship Ceremony organized the European Commission, Budapest, May 3, 2011
- 2009 André Blondel Medal 2009, Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Paris, France
- 1994 Annual Award of the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, 1994
