Using engineering tools to unlock the brain’s secrets

A teenage fascination with both robotics and biology led Luca Berdondini to become an engineer deeply in love with neuroscience. From this early convergence emerged his first groundbreaking invention: microelectronic devices based on the active pixel sensors concept, inspired by digital camera technology. These sensors increased by a factor of one thousand the number of […]

Light and materials: creating sustainable fuels (and much more) with the Sun

Isabella Poli, an engineer specialized in sustainable energy and chemical technologies, works at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Turin, within the Center for Sustainable Future Technologies. Her research focuses on developing innovative semiconductor and conductor materials that, through photocatalytic reactions, can generate solar fuels from water and from CO₂ captured directly from the […]