Profile

Dr Renato Turchetta received the M.S. degree from the University of Milan (Italy) in 1988 and the Ph.D. from the University of Strasbourg (France) in 1991. In 1999 he joined the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK, where he founded and led a design group developing custom CMOS image sensors for advanced applications, among which: a 16 million, radiation-hard image sensors for the direct detection of electrons and a global shutter, 5 million frames per second, megapixel image sensor. In 2014 he co-founded Vivamos Ltd., set up to commercialise his 6.7 megapixel, wafer-scale, video rate CMOS image sensors. He was executive director of the company until the end of 2016. He then co-founded IMASENIC S.L., which develops custom CMOS image sensors. He is member of the Advisory Board for the annual Image Sensors Europe conference since 2011. He also authored or co-authored over 100 papers in peer-review journals and 10 patents.