Our Team

  • Mario Lanza

    He is an IEEE Fellow and Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He leads the research team, paying special attention to hiring, designing the work plans, reviewing the data of the students, helping them prepare the plots, and writing big portions of the manuscripts. He is also in charge of applying for funding to maintain all the members.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Xuan Li

    She is a postdoctoral fellow in our group since August 2025. She got her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Peking University (China) in June 2025. Duing 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.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

Professor Mario Lanza has supervised 50 theses (15 doctoral, 27 master, and 8 bachelor), and 10 postdoctoral fellows. The size of his group reached 21 persons in 2018, and now he prefers to keep it always below 10 to give better support to each member. The students and postdocs have received some of the most prestigious awards in the world, such as the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (海外优青), the Young 1000 Talent, the IEEE - Electron Devices Society excellent PhD student award, the Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship, the Elsevier Young Investigator Award, and many others. After graduation, many of the former members of Professor Mario Lanza’s group went to top institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, Imec, Fudan University, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Intrinsic Semiconductor, RWTH Aachen, and many others.