The Università degli Studi di Brescia was officially established in 1982, and is composed by 8 Departments serving for over 15,000 students. The University of Brescia offers a wide range of educational programmes with Bachelor’s and Master of Science (MSc) degrees, postgraduate technical courses,schools of specialisation and PhD programmes in most areas: business and economics, engineering and technology, law, medicine and surgery. The University of Brescia is an important university in a city of art and culture with an excellent quality of life, in one of the most important industrial and productive regions in Italy. The University of Brescia provides high quality services to its students, including international students: counselling services, scholarships financial aids, tutoring, computer and multimedia rooms, wireless zones, libraries, on-line services, laboratories and centres of advanced scientific research. Moreover, it offers: accommodation services, dining halls, cultural activities and sports, Italian language courses for foreign students.

Elisabetta Comini earned her Laurea degree in Physics from University of Pisa working on crystals and spectroscopy in 1996; she then pursued her Ph.D. in Material science at the University of Brescia in 2000 on metal oxide thin films for chemical sensing.

EC is a researcher specialist in the growth of metal oxides, particularly nanowires, thin films and the measurement of their electronic, functional and structural properties. She is responsible of SENSOR Laboratory.

She has been organizer of several symposia in the materials and sensing field for Materials Research society and European Materials Research society. She serves as a reviewer for various international journals and she is part of the technical program committee of several conferences in chemical sensing. She is supervising several undergraduate as well as graduate students at the University of Brescia.

She has received the following awards: Outstanding Oral Presentation At Eurosensors XIX Conference (Barcelona, 2005), outstanding oral presentation at EUROSENSORS XX conference (Goteborg, 2006), winner of the first place “Science as art” 2010 MRS Spring Meeting, Eurosensors Fellow Award in 2012.

EC has over 350 technical publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and review papers; she is also editor of various books and holds four patents issued. She is actively involved as organizer of symposia and conferences. She has more than 500 communications, 130 invited communications at conferences and she has given more than 65 invited communications including 6 plenary talk. 

EC Hirsch-index (H-index) is 54, with more that 12000 citations (the three most cited articles have been cited 1256, 543, and 457 times, source SCOPUS).

Dario Zappa was born in 1982 in Brescia. He graduated in Information Engineering – Industrial Electronics curriculum – in 2005, with a thesis entitled “Experimental evaluation of the Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller for wireless applications”.

In April 2008 he had an internship in the laboratory “Mobile Experience Lab” from MIT in Boston for a joint project between the University of Brescia, MIT and the Province of Brescia.

In 2009 he obtained the Master Degree in Electronics Engineering for Automation – Integrated Systems and Devices – with a thesis entitled “Study of the current transport in OLED”.

In 2013 he obtained the PhD in Materials for Engineering at the University of Brescia, Department Information Engineering (formely Department of Physics and Chemistry) with a thesis entitled “Metal Oxide Nanostructures for Sensing Applications”.

From June 2014 to July 2017 he was a Researcher at the CNR-INO. Actually he is a Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor at “SensorLab”, University of Brescia. He is the responsible of the "Common technological platform for preparation of nanostructured and monodimensional oxides" research line, and his research activities are focused on the synthesis and characterization of nanostructored metal oxides for different applications, including gas sensors, thermoelectric devices and fuel cells. In the last few years, he was involved in some 7th EU programme projects (ORAMA, S3, MSP) and in some national projects (FIRB, SUSBIOREM). Since 2012 he is lecturer in Physics at the University of Brescia. 

Dario Zappa has 1 patents and 32 publications in peer reviewed international journals, which got over 700 citations. His Hirsch index (H-index) is 16 (Source: SCOPUS). He served as guest editors of many thematic issues of MDPI Nanomaterials, Materials and Chemosensors and Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. He is Associate Editor of SAGE Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology journal.

Marwa BEN ARBIA was born in 1994 in Sousse (Tunisia).

She had obtained her B. Sc. degree in “Fundamental Physics” from Faculty of Sciences Monastir (University of Monastir, Tunisia) in 2016. She pursued her studies to earn her M. Sc. degree in physics with special focus on “Materials and Nanostructures” in 2018. Her master thesis was on “Optical and electrical studies of GaInAsN for optoelectronic applications”, supervised by Professor Faouzi SAIDI at Laboratory of Micro-Optoelctronic and Nanostructures (LMON), University of Monastir. She has published more than 9 research articles in peer reviewed international journals. 

She was awarded with fellowship as a PhD student at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia (Italy). Currently, she is working on metal oxides for gas sensing applications under the supervision of Professor Elisabetta COMINI at SENSOR laboratory.

Stefano Botticini earned his bachelor degree in Electronic and telecommunications engineering from the University of Brescia. 

The bachelor thesis topic was about the simulation of a RF patch antenna.

He is currently working in sensor laboratory as contractor and completing studies of the master degree in electronic engineering curricula microelectronics. 

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Massimo Ponzoni earned his bachelor degree in Electronic and telecommunications engineering from the University of Brescia. 

The bachelor thesis topic was about WO3 nanowires based gas sensor. He is currently working in sensor laboratory as contractor and completing studies of the master degree in electronic engineering.