Ilaria Cristiani

Ilaria Cristiani (M'00) was born in 1969. She received the Laurea degree in electronics engineering in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering and computer science both in 1998 from the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, She was at Pirelli Cables & Systems Advanced Research Laboratories (now Pirelli Labs), Milan, Italy. She was engaged in fiber lasers, soliton propagation, and high-bit-rate transmission systems. Since November 1999, she has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Pavia. Her current research interests include optical signal processing in second-order nonlinear waveguides, nonlinear optics in fibers and ferroelectrics materials, silicon photonics, and biophotonics.