Dr. Francesca Borghi, Department of Physics, University of Milano, Italy.

Structural and functional properties of cluster-assembled thin films; study of emerging behaviors in complex systems; development of neuromorphic data processing devices with self-assembled materials.

Title of the talk: Reprogrammable hardware for data processing at the edge

Short CV: Francesca Borghi is a tenure track assistant professor at the Physics Department of the University of Milano. She graduated in Physics from the University of Milano in 2011 and she received her PhD in Physics, Astrophysics and Applied Physics in 2015. Her research focuses on structural and functional properties of cluster-assembled nanostructured materials, and the development of neuromorphic computing systems and soft electronic devices. She’s currently coordinating multidisciplinary laboratories for the advanced characterization of neuromorphic systems at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (CIMaINa) at the Physics Department (UniMi). She’s co-founder of GRUCIO, a start-up initiative aiming at the development of unconventional data processing devices.