Adrian Ionescu elected to Academia Europaea
Adrian M. Ionescu © Alain Herzog
Following a competitive recommendation and peer review process, School of Engineering professor Adrian M. Ionescu has been elected to the prestigious Pan-European Academy of Humanities Letters and Sciences.
The not-for-profit Academia Europaea, founded in 1988, aims to advance excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences. Its 6,000 members, including over 85 Nobel laureates, are scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research.
To mark his election as a new Academy member, Adrian Ionescu will present his research at the Academy’s 2025 annual conference in Barcelona, Spain, in October.
As head of the EPFL Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory (NanoLab), Ionescu’s research focuses in advanced nanoelectronics, with special emphasis on the technology, design, and modelling of nanoscale solid-state devices. He has pioneered breakthrough nanoelectronic technologies such as steep slope and phase change devices, integrated biosensors, and RF MEMS resonators for energy-efficient Edge AI and Internet of Things applications. Ionescu has a publication record over 500 articles in renowned journals and conferences and is an IEEE Fellow. In 2024 he received the IEEE Technical Field Cledo Brunetti Award, ‘for leadership and contributions to the field of energy-efficient steep slope devices and technologies’.
Earlier this year, he was named an Ambassador for the European Research Council.