Prof. Alessandro Cidronali

Alessandro Cidronali (M'89-SM'11) received the Laurea and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. From 1999 to 2011, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the University of Florence. From 1999 to 2003, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Motorola Physics Science Research Laboratory. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Guest Researcher with the Nonlinear Device Characterization Group, Electromagnetic Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Under the frame of the IST-EU FP6 Network TARGET (IST-1-507893-NOE), he served as Workpackage Leader for the transmitters modeling/architectures for wireless broadband access work packages. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Florence, Florence, Italy; where he teaches courses on electron devices and integrated microwave circuits. His research activities concern the study of analysis and synthesis methods for nonlinear microwave circuits, the design of broadband microwave integrated circuits and the development of computer-aided design (CAD) modeling for microwave devices and circuits.