Guillermo Villanueva

Guillermo Villanueva is an Associate Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausane (EPFL), Switzerland, in the Mechanical Engineering Institute (IGM). Before joining EPFL he was a Marie Curie post-doctoral scholar at DTU (Denmark) and Caltech (California, US); and before a post-doc at EPFL-LMIS1. He received his M.Sc. in Physics in Zaragoza (Spain) and his PhD from the UAB in Barcelona (Spain).
Since the start of his PhD (2002), Prof. Villanueva has been active in the fields of NEMS/MEMS for sensing, having expertise from the design and fabrication to the characterization and applicability. He has co-authored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 130 contributions to international conferences. He is serving, or has served, on the program committees of IEEE-NEMS, IEEE-Sensors, MNE, IEEE-FCS, Transducers and IEEE-MEMS. He is editor in chief of the Physical Sensors section of MDPI Sensors. He has co-organized MNE2014, SNC2015, the short courses at Transducers 2019 and the 16th International Workshop on Nanomechanical Sensors (NMC2019).

Education

PhD

| Microelectronic engineering

2002 – 2006 CNM-IMB-CSIC/UAB
Directed by Res. Prof. Joan Bausells

Ms.Sc.

| Finite Element Modelling

2005 – 2005 UNED

Ms.Sc.

| Microelectronic Engineering

2002 – 2004 UAB

Ms.Sc.

| Physics

1998 – 2002 Zaragoza

Professionals experiences

Associate Professor

2022–2025

EPFL

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

2017–2022

EPFL

SNSF Assistant Professor

2013–2019

EPFL

Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Scholar

2012–2013

DTU

Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Scholar

2009–2012

Caltech

Post-Doctoral Researcher

2007–2009

EPFL

Research Assistant

2002–2006

CNM-IMB-CSIC

Awards

SNSF Professorship

Swiss National Science Foundation

2017

Journal Papers

Conference Contributions

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Melania Coronese, Jasmin Spettel, Matteo Gambato Guidastri, Chenhao Wang, Mohammadsadegh Namnabat, Leticia de Sousa, Florian Fernand Hartmann, Fatemeh Arefi, Furkan Ayhan, Federico Peretti, Saba Gholizadeh, Nan Xu

Past EPFL PhD Students

Annalisa De Pastina (2018), Damien Maillard (2022), Marco Liffredo (2024), Daniel Moreno Garcia (2025), Silvan Stettler (2026), Yara Abdelaal (2026)

Courses

Measurement techniques

ME-301

Theoretical and practical course on experimental techniques for observation and measurement of physical variables such as force, strain, temperature, flow velocity, structural deformation and vibrations, etc.

Mechanical vibrations

ME-332

In this course we study the modal dynamics of mechanical structures. During the course we will learn key concepts like Normal modes, effective mass and stiffness, and eigenfrequencies.

Micro/Nanomechanical devices

ME-426

In this course we will see an overview of the exciting field of Micro and Nanomechanical systems. We will go over the dfferent scaling laws that dominate the critical parameters, how size affects material properties, how these devices are manufactured, designed and later used.