Mario Lanza is an IEEE Fellow and Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS), since August 2024. He was headhunted under the highly selective “Strategic Hire” program of the university, and he is currently acting as Deputy Head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department. Before joining NUS, he got the PhD in Electronic Engineering in 2010 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he graduated with honors and won the extraordinary PhD prize. In 2010-2011 he was NSFC postdoctoral fellow at Peking University, and in 2012-2013 he was Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. On September 2013 he joined Soochow University (in China), where he promoted until the rank of Full Professor. Between October 2020 and July 2024 he was full-time Associate Professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (in Saudi Arabia), where he became known for his work in nano-electronics.

He has published over 250 research articles in top journals like Nature, Science and Nature Electronics, many of them becoming highly cited, and he has been plenary, keynote, tutorial and invited speaker in over 150 conferences. Many of his former students are now Professors in top universities, such as Peking University and Fudan University, among others. He is often consulted by leading semiconductor companies and publishers. He serves in the board governors of the IEEE - Electron Devices Society, and is member of the technical and management committee of top conferences in the field of electron devices, like IEDM, IRPS and IPFA. He is the founder of two startup companies: Web of Talents (2021) and Newmorphic (2026). He speaks fluently five languages: English, Chinese, German, Spanish and Catalan.

  • Sebastian Pazos

    He is a research scientist specialized in very large scale integration (VLSI) circuit design, device and circuit reliability characterization, as well as multi-scale device/circuit simulation. He uses the semi-automatic probe station and specialized characterization boards to measure thousands of novel-materials-based electronic devices, including yield, variability, reliability and stability tests.

  • Yue Yuan

    She is a postdoctoral fellow in our group since August 2025. She got her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She is expert in nanoelectronic characterization of materials using conductive atomic force microscopy. She also fabricates and characterizes hybrid 2D/CMOS microchips, and developed the first on-chip atomristors.

  • Xuan Li

    She is a postdoctoral fellow in our group since August 2025. She got her PhD in Physical Electronics from Peking University (China) in June 2025. During her PhD she was visiting scholar at ETH Zurich for one year. She is expert in novel nanomaterials integration on silicon microchips for memory and computation.

  • Wenwen Zheng

    She is a postdoctoral fellow in our group since August 2025. She got her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She is expert in 2D materials based device fabrication and testing. She is also expert in building excellent metal/2D materials interfaces and analyze densities of atomic defects using transmission electron microscopy.

  • Tingting Han

    She is a postdoctoral fellow and lab manager in our group since March 2025. Before that, she got a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Soochow University in 2018, where she also worked as postdoctoral fellow. She is expert in electronic materials characterization using scanning probe microscopy and transmission electron microscopy.

  • Xiangyuan Wang

    He is a postdoctoral fellow in our group since December 2025. He got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in June 2025. He is expert in advanced nanopositioning for high-throughput atomic force microscopy. He received the prestigious Shanghai Jiao Tong University Overseas Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

  • Ziyun yan

    She is a PhD student in our group since August 2025, working on the array level characterization of hybrid 2D/CMOS microchips for memristive applications and NSRAM based neural networks. Before joining us, she completed a Master in Integrated Circuits at Tsinghua University, in Beijing (China).

  • Jesús Garza

    He is a PhD student in our group since January 2026. He go the Bachelor in Electronics and Automation Engineering in 2016, and the Master in Engineering with a focus on Mechatronics in 2018, both at Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (Mexico). After that, he worked as Lecturer in the same university, and he was promoted to Coordinator of Laboratories.

  • Osamah Alharbi

    He is a PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He is expert on the fabrication of selectors, made of two-dimensional materials, on silicon microchips. He has also mastered the use of conductive atomic force microscopy for the characterization of small nanodot-like electronic devices.

  • Yue Ping

    She is a PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She is expert on the CVD synthesis of novel nanomaterials. She has also extensive experience on the nanoscale and atomic-scale characterization of pinholes and other defects in two-dimensional materials grown on 2-inch and 4-inch wafers.

Supervision experience and philosophy:

Prof. Mario Lanza has supervised 15 PhD theses, 27 Master theses, and 8 Bachelor theses, as well advised over 10 postdoctoral fellows. Note that the Master programs in China are 3 years long, and many of the those theses are as deep as some PhD theses in European and American universities. In 2018, Prof. Lanza’s group reached its maximum size of 20 persons, and now he prefers to keep his group size below 10 persons to give maximum support to each of them. Over the years, the students and postdocs trained at Prof. Mario Lanza’s group have received some of the most prestigious awards in the world, such as the Excellent Young Scientists Fund [海外优青] (3), the Ramón y Cajal professorship (1), the IEEE - Electron Devices Society excellent PhD student award (3), the Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship (1), the Elsevier Young Investigator Award (1), the Royal Society of Chemistry travel award (1), and many others. After graduation, many Professor Lanza’s students and postdocs went to top institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, Imec, Fudan University, University of Science and Technology of China, Intrinsic Semiconductor,  RWTH Aachen, and many others.

Former group member name, current/next position (hiring program), position in our group:

  1. Kaichen Zhu, Professor at Fudan University (Overseas Excellent Young Scientist Fund, 海外优秀青年), former PhD student

  2. Shaochuan Chen, Professor at Peking University (Overseas Excellent Young Scientist Fund, 海外优秀青年), former Master student

  3. Yuanyuan Shi, Professor at University of Science and Technology of China (Overseas Excellent Young Scientist Fund, 海外优秀青年), former PhD student

  4. Fei Hui, Professor at Zhengzhou University (Henan Province High-Level Talents), former PhD student

  5. Marco A. Villena, Professor at University of Granada (Ramón y Cajal Fellow), former postdoctoral fellow

  6. Fernando Aguirre, Senior Device Engineer at Intrinsic Semiconductor, former postdoctoral fellow

  7. Enric Grustan, Senior Lecturer at Cranfield University, former postdoctoral fellow

  8. Jonas Weber, Product Manager at EV Group, former PhD student

  9. Yaqing Shen, Postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, former PhD student

  10. Chandreswar Mahata, Postdoctoral fellow at Seoul National University, former postdoctoral fellow

  11. Xu Jing, Postdoctoral fellow at Soochow University, former PhD student

  12. Two Wang, Senior Engineer Zhangjiang National Laboratory, former PhD student

  13. Bin Yuan, Senior Engineer at Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, former PhD student

  14. Chao Wen, PhD student at University of Cambridge, former Master student

  15. Biyu Guo, PhD student at Fudan University, former Master student

  16. Yiping Xiao, PhD student at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, former Master student

  17. Xianhu Liang, PhD student at University of Würzburg, former Master student

  18. Emmanuel Panholzer, Master student at Soochow University

  19. Yingwen Liu, former Master student at Soochow University

  20. Ying Zuo, former Master student at Soochow University

  21. Xuehua Li, former Master student at Soochow University

  22. Bingru Wang, former Master student at Soochow University

  23. Lanlan Jiang, former Master student at Soochow University

  24. Chengbin Pan, former Master student at Soochow University

  25. Xiaoxue Song, former Master student at Soochow University

  26. Yanfeng Ji, former Master student at Soochow University

  27. Yuhao Wang, former Bachelor student at Soochow University

  28. Jiawei Chen, former Bachelor student at Soochow University

  29. Zi He, former Bachelor student at Soochow University

  30. Junnan Zhang, former Bachelor student at Soochow University