Dr. Mirco Scaffardi is Head of Research Area at the PNT Lab of CNIT. He received the M.S. degree in electronics engineering from University of Parma, Parma, Italy in 2001. In May-June 2001 he was fellow with CNIT at the National Photonic Networks Laboratory in Pisa. In 2005 he received the Ph.D. degree from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. From 2004 to 2007 he is research fellow with Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, at the Center of Excellence for the Information and Communication Engineering, Pisa, Italy. From 2007 he is with CNIT, Pisa, Italy, holding the position of head of research from May 2018.
He was Visiting Student at the Research Center COM, Denmark Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark in 2004, and visiting researcher at NICT Tokyo, Japan in 2007 and 2008. In 2009 he was visiting researcher at INRS, Montreal, Canada awarded with a scholarship from the state of Quebec. From 2011 to 2021 he was Lecturer within Ph.D and international master courses of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.
Scientific interests:
He has a recognized experience in research activity in the area of all-optical and electro-optical signal processing, multi-mode multiplexing, optical switching, high-capacity optical transmission systems. More recently his research activity has been focused on light detection and ranging techniques and photonic-based radar systems.
Scientific achievements:
He was involved in several national and international projects, doing research activity on optical processing techniques for ultrafast signals. He was coordinator of the CNIT Research Unit within the FIRB Project “MIcro- and NanO-structured photonic devices based on strained silicon for ultrafast Switching in datacom applications (MINOS)”, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. He was involved in the H2020 European Project “Revolutionising optical fibre transmission and networking using the Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light” (ROAM) as leader of the work package on OAM-based switching. Research activity in the microwave photonics was carried out as coordinator of the project TUTELARY “Coastal surveillance system exploiting photonics-based radar security” funded by the EU Frontex Agency, and as coordinator of the CNIT activity on the project DISTRIBUTED-DRONE “Multi-band coherent and distributed radar system on a fleet of drones” funded by the Italian Ministry of Defence. He also was coordinator of the project CLARIFIER “Frequency-agile radar-lidar chip for surveillance moving platform”, funded by NATO. He has been and currently is involved in the scientific activity of several institutional and industrial projects. In 2009 He won a Short-term research merit scholarship from ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport du Québec at Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) – Montreal, Canada. In the same year he also won a Fulbright scholarship for the project “Regeneration schemes on silicon chip” at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
Pubblications:
He is co-author of more than 53 papers on refereed journal, 102 papers on referred conferences, workshops and seminars, 17 patent proposals and 2 book chapters. He participated in the Technical Program Committee at the conference Photonics in Switching and Computing 2023.