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 final-year PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She will join NUS as postdoc in summer 2025. She analyzes the morphology, electrical and thermal properties of different nanomaterials using scanning probe microscopy. She uses the clean room to fabricate and characterize novel-materials-based microchips.

  • Wenwen Zheng

    She is a final-year PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She will join NUS as postdoc in summer 2025. She has developed a method to avoid 2D materials damage during metal evaporation. She is an expert on atomic-scale characterization of different materials using transmission electron microscopy.

  • Yaqing Shen

    She is a final-year PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She carried out exhaustive analyses of the leakage current across multilayer hexagonal boron nitride, including resistive switching. She is expert in device fabrication using electron beam lithography, as well as device reliability characterization.

  • 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.