Paolo Pintus is an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Cagliari, Italy. He received his M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering with honors from the University of Cagliari in 2007, and his Ph.D. in Telecommunication Engineering with honors from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, in 2012.

Dr. Pintus worked as a Research Fellow with the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna from 2012 to 2016, and as an Associate Project Scientist at the University of California Santa Barbara from 2016 to 2022. He is a member of the review board for Nature, Optica, IEEE, and AIP publishing groups, and he serves on the technical program committees for several conferences, including the Optica Integrated Photonics Research Meeting (IPR), Photonics in Switching and Computing Conference, IEEE Si Photonics Conference (formerly GFP), and IEEE Photonic Society Summer Topicals. Dr. Pintus has contributed to more than 15 research projects funded by national and international research agencies (US Air Force/NASA/IARPA/DARPA/European Community/Italian Ministry of Research/Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs). He is co-inventor of 6 patents and co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Pintus has received several awards, including the European Anile-ECMI Prize for Mathematics in Industry, and he was a recipient of the Million Dollar International Quantum U Tech Accelerator. He is a Senior member of the IEEE Society, the IEEE Photonic Society, and a member of the Italian Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIMAI). His research interests center around integrated optics, silicon photonics, and computational electromagnetics.

Education

• 2012: Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering with honors, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
• 2007: Master of Science Degree in Electronic Engineering with honors, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
• 2005: Bachelor of Science Degree in Electronic Engineering with honors, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy