
Federica Cappelluti is associate professor of electronic engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. She received the PhD degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2002 with a thesis on electroabsorption modulators, partly carried out at UCLA, USA. The leitmotiv of her research has been the circuit-level and physics-based modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices for various applications, from telecom to high-frequency electronics to energy. She has been active mainly in the field of photovoltaics for the past 10 years, leading a research team at Politecnico di Torino that works on modeling advanced solar cell concepts, such as quantum dot and intermediate band solar cells, light trapping, novel tandem architectures, and radiative cooling. She has extensive experience in international research projects, both industrial and on public competitive calls. She was the coordinator of the European project TFQD on the development of lightweight III-V thin-film nanostructured solar cells for space applications, and she is currently responsible for the nationally funded CLAIRE project on three-terminal perovskite-silicon solar cells, and task leader of the European MIRACLE project on photonic meta-concretes for radiative cooling applications. She has published more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings and supervised about 40 undergraduate and doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows. With an established track-record as a reviewer for several international journals and funding agencies, she is an associate editor of EPJ-Photovoltaics (EDP). She teaches electronic devices to master’s degree students and fundamentals of electronic systems and technologies to bachelor’s degree students. She is the director of the Study Center for Open Science at Politecnico di Torino.