Lorenzo Rosa - Biography

 
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In the lab at Division of Media and Network Technologies

Lorenzo Rosa was born in Parma, Italy, on November 17th, 1974. He received the ``Laurea'' degree (5-year program) in Electronics Engineering from the University of Parma on April 29th, 2003, discussing a thesis with the title ``Sviluppo di antenne dielettriche per applicazioni DCS e UMTS'' (Development of dielectric antennas for DCS and UMTS applications).

From January 2004 to January 2007 he was a Ph.D. student at the Information Engineering Department (DII) of the University of Parma, under the advisorship of Prof. Stefano Selleri.

He received the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from the University of Parma on March 9th, 2007, defending a thesis with the title ``Radio-over-Fiber System Technologies'' (Tecnologie per sistemi Radio-over-Fiber).


Since October 2007, he has been working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, where he is currently collaborating with Prof. Masanori Koshiba and Prof. Kunimasa Saitoh. His current research activity includes the study and development of finite element methods for electromagnetic simulation of photonic-crystal fibers, fiber optic sensors and integrated optical components.