Caterina Ciminelli

Caterina Ciminelli received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. in electronic engineering, from Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. From 1999 to 2002, she did industrial research activity on optoelectronic components and subsystems with the R&D Division of Pirelli Optical Systems, Milan, Italy, and Cisco Photonics Italy, Monza, Italy. In May 2002, she joined Politecnico di Bari as an Assistant Professor of Electronics. Since April 2012, she has been an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Bari where she is head of the research Group of the Optoelectronics Laboratory. She was a visiting student with the Research Center of Alcatel, Marcoussis, France, in 1999, and a Visiting Researcher with Glasgow University, in 2004. She is author or co-author of more than 200 journal articles and conference papers. She is involved in several research projects, also as Scientific Coordinator. Her research interests include integrated optoelectronics and photonics. She is a co-inventor of a patent. From January 2007 to December 2010, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Society for Optics and Photonics. From 2012 to 2018, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Electronic Society. She served as a member of the Programme Committee of numerous international conferences. She is currently a member of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society. She is a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America and IEEE.

For JLT she is handling submissions on the following topics:

• Photonic integrated circuits and subsystems
• Microwave photonics
• Photonic systems for aerospace
• Biosensors