Professor Valentina Donzella

Professor Dr Valentina Donzella received her BSc (2003) and MSc (2005) in Electronics Engineering from University of Pisa and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy), and her PhD (2010) in Innovative Technologies for Information, Communication and Perception Engineering from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. In 2009, she was a visiting graduate student at McMasterUniversity (Hamilton, ON, Canada) in the Engineering Physics department. She is currently Full Professor, Head of the Sensing and Perception for Intelligent Systems Research and co-director of the Advanced Robotics Centre at Queen Mary University of London. She is leading the work package on Sensors Modelling in the EU Horizon ROADVIEW project, and was previously awarded a Royal Academy ofEngineering Industrial Fellowship on camera sensors. Before joining Queen Mary, she was a MITACS and SiEPIC postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada), in the Silicon Photonics group. She is first author, co-author, and last author of several journal papers on top tier optics and sensors journals. Her research interests are: LiDAR, Intelligent Vehicles, integrated optical sensors, noise factors, AI, sensor fusion, and silicon photonics.