Francesca Iacopi
Francesca Iacopi is an engineer, researcher and an academic. She specializes in materials and nanoelectronics engineering and is a professor at the University of Technology Sydney. She is a chief investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, and a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Iacopi has authored over 130 publications and holds 9 granted patents. Her selected research areas include Nanoelectronics, Semiconductors, 2D Materials, Nanophotonics and Energy Storage. Her research has added to the ITRS roadmap of materials and processes for advanced semiconductor technologies regarding devices, interconnects, and packaging. Iacopi’s research contributions have earned her various awards including a Gold Award for Graduate Students (Materials Research Society) in 2003 and Global Innovation Award (TechConnect World) in 2014. She has served as an advisory committee member to the Queensland State Government on Science and Innovation in 2015. Iacopi was appointed representative for the IEEE Electron Devices Society to the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) in 2019. She founded and was the inaugural chair of IEEE Electron Device Society Chapter in New South Wales in 2019. She is an Elected Member of the IEEE