Dr. Fabrizio Gambini

Faculty Research Assistant · Non-Tenure Track

Center for Space Science and Technology

College of Engineering and Information Technology

About

Dr Gambini received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in Telecommunication Engineering and the Ph.D. cum laude in Emerging Digital Technologies: Photonic technologies from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy). He was a Postdoctoral Research in Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and University of California Santa Barbara (USA). From February 2021 he is an Assistant Research Engineer at University of Maryland Baltimore County. He works in collaboration with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center through the CRESST II program to develop photonic integrated solutions for hyperspectral microwave sounders and lidars. His main activities are the study, design and characterization of photonic integrated devices based on Silicon on Insulator and Indium Phosphide technology platforms.

Research interests

Study, design and characterization of photonic integrated circuits and systems for hyperspectral microwave sounders and lidars.

Education

  • Ph D, Emerging Digital Technologies — Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (2016)
    Photonic integrated switches for datacom and telecom applications
  • MS, Telecommunication Engineering — Politecnico di Milano (2012)
    Modellizzazione e Caratterizzazione di Filtri Ottico Integrati del Primo Ordine in Fosfuro d’Indio (Modeling and Characterization of Integrated Optical Filters of the First Order in Indium Phosphide)
  • BS, Telecommunication Engineering — Politecnico di Milano (2010)
    Time e Site Diversity a Milano e Spino d’Adda (Time and Site Diversity in Milan and Spino d’Adda)