Claudio Bruschini

EPFL STI IMT AQUA
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Fields of expertise
- Past expertise and interests:
Bulk and trace explosives and illicit substances detectors, including nuclear physics based. Humanitarian demining/unexploded ordnance sensors. Metal detectors. (Multi-)Sensor technology.
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2016 Swiss Medtech Award finalist, CTI “Compact Probes” project
2016 PicoQuant Young Investigator award, SPIE Photonics West, co-author
2011-2014, 2016 EPFL outstanding performance incentive (“Prime pour préstations exceptionnelles”)
2012 Innovation Village Award, SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, Belgium "Best Innovation by a Multilateral Project, Organisation or Company", 1st Runner-up prize [SPADnet project]
2010 FET Open project “MEGAFRAME” invited to European Parliament as one of “12 outstanding Commission-funded FET projects”
1993 Fellowship, Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Genoa, Italy
1991 CERN Summer Student
MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES & SERVICE
- Refereeing papers for: OSA: Optica, Optics Letters, Optics Express & Biomedical Optics Express; IEEE: Electron Devices Letters, JSSC, JSTQE, Photonics Technology Letters, Sensors, SSC Letters, TGRS, TNS (Transactions on Nuclear Science); MDPI: Applied Sciences, Instruments, Sensors; IOP: Journal of Physics D (Applied Physics); SPIE: JARS; Elsevier: Integration (VLSI), Optik; Copernicus: JSSS, Springer: SpringerPlus.
Conferences: IROS 2018, RAD 2018, NEWCAS 2017.
- Project Evaluator (4×) & Reviewer (>10×) for the European Commission, Humanitarian Demining R&D
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
- Foundation Council Member, Digger DTR Foundation, 2004-present, Vice-President, 2017-present
- NATO/IAEA Expert Group Member, Exploratory Mission, Egypt, 2006
- ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France) PRCE Call 2020 External Reviewer
- PhD Thesis Committees Member
- Guest Editor, MDPI Sensors Special Issue “"The Intnl. SPAD Sensor Workshop”, 2018
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
- Conference Session Chair: SIGNAL 2016 ( Panelist), Lisbon; GRC 2007, Humanitarian Demining session, Big Sky (MT), USA; EUDEM2-SCOT, 2003, Brussels; MINE’99, Florence, 1999 (co-chair).
MAIN PLENARY/INVITED TALKS
OUTREACH & VALORIZATION
- SPAD technology pioneered in MEGAFRAME -> core of STMicrolectronics proximity sensor (> 1Bn units sold so far)
- MEGAFRAME32 sensor currently distributed by PhotonForce Ltd
- Intraoperative positron detection probe developed in “CTI Compact Probes” project engineered and distributed by Forimtech S.A.
Mission
Biography
He then started his close collaboration with EPFL, first in the DeTeC (Demining Technology Center) project (sensors for landmine detection/humanitarian demining, 1996-1997). After DeTeC's end, he started the first of a series of fruitful collaborations with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) on humanitarian demining related R&D (1998). This was followed by the EUDEM survey project (The European Union in Humanitarian Demining, 1998), the EUDEM2 three year EC sponsored support measure (www.eudem.info, 2001-2004), and the DELVE support action (www.delve.vub.ac.be, 2007).
In parallel he started working within the EPFL's AQUA group (Advanced Quantum Architectures, Edoardo Charbon), on topics as diverse as ultrasonic sensors for in-air application, optical 3D and high speed 2D sensing, sensor networks, or tracking/motion capture systems, in particular for the preparation of research projects. This culminated in the European MEGAFRAME (www.megaframe.eu, FP6, 2006-2010, SPAD arrays and related in-pixel time stamping electronics in deep submicron CMOS technology) and SPADnet (www.spadnet.eu, FP7, 2010-2014, networked SPAD arrays for Positron Emission Tomography) projects, coordinated by EPFL-AQUA. As from 2009 he also worked with Dario Floreano on the management of the CURVACE Curved Artificial Compound Eyes FP7 project (www.curvace.org), coordinated by EPFL-LIS. He was also active with CHUV (Lausanne University Hospital) within EndoTOFPET-US (endoscopic PET) as well as on a CTI project devoted to the development of a new hand-held standalone tool for tracer-guided medical procedures. In 2014 he had also the pleasure of joining the EPFL ICLAB of Christian Enz during its ramp-up phase, collaborating on device related topics (SNF GigaRadMOST) and biomedical R&D (NanoTera WiseSkin).
Claudio is now fully with EPFL’s Advanced Quantum Architecture (AQUA). He has also been active as independent scientific consultant, under the label CBR Scientific Consulting, on the preparation of (European) R&D project proposals and the execution of individual studies, and worked in 2006 for a local start-up as operations manager and R&D advisor.... but this is another story.
An unauthorized early biography is available at http://lami.epfl.ch/team/claudiob/...
Publications
Other publications
Research
MAIN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
2020-2022 Co-PI EPFL, SuperMaMa FET Open European project, with Univ. Wien, Quantum BV, Univ. Basel, Spectrometry Vision BV, 2’841 kEuro
2017-2021 Co-coordinator, Swiss National Fund Phasor-SPAD & MD-NUVPET projects, ~1.4MCHF
2013-2016 Coordinator, FluoCam – internal R&D in collaboration with LUMC (NL) & EPFL
2010-2014 Co-coordinator & Project Manager, FP7 SPADnet European project, with E. Charbon (EPFL). 3.7MEuro overall EC funding.
Major European project with 9 partners for all-digital, network based, photonic modules in time-of-flight PET. The project was rated ‘Excellent’ in the final evaluation.
2013-2015 Scientist & Project Manager, CHUV, EndoTOFPET-US FP7 European project. 5.516MEuro.
Major CERN-led international collaboration for the creation of miniaturized PET probes for prostate and pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
2012-2014 Coordinator, NCCR transfer project “Advanced sensing system”, with CHUV & Forimtech SA. 786kEuro.
2009-2012 Assistant Coordinator & Project Manager, CTI “Compact Probes” Swiss Industry-Academia project, with CHUV, EPFL and Forimtech SA.
2009-2013 Project Manager, FP7 CURVACE FET Open European project (EPFL). 2.09MEuro.
2006-2010 Assistant Coordinator & Project Manager, FP6 MEGAFRAME FET Open European project (EPFL). 1.85MEuro.
Major European project with 5 partners for photon counting and single-photon imaging for biomedical applications. The final review report stated: “The published results set the consortium as a world-leader in the field of arrays for single quantum detection of visible light photons.”
2004-2006 EC DELVE Support Measure (“Humanitarian Demining R&D project funding in Europe & Lessons Learned”), with VUB, Brussels. 220kEuro.
2002-2004 Assistant Coordinator, EC EUDEM2 Support Measure, with VUB, Brussels. 547kEuro.
1998-1999 Assistant Coordinator, EC EUDEM Support Measure, with VUB, Brussels. 84kEuro.
1996-1997 DeTeC (Demining Technology Center) project, EPFL-LAMI (J.-D. Nicoud).
1993-1995 EC ESPRIT GP-MIMD2 project, at CERN.
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Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Microengineering
PhD Programs
Topics on Microelectronics (ToM) lectures on (Digital) Electronics & Systems for Advanced Time-of-Flight PET, Milano, Sept. 2018