Profile

Diego Barrettino (S’93–M’98–SM’06) received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland, in 1997 and 2004, respectively.

From 1997 to 2000, he worked at Allegro MicroSystems Inc., where he was an Analog IC Designer of Hall-effect magnetic sensors. From 2000 to 2004, he was a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant at ETHZ. In 2004 he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and then an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA. In 2006, he returned to Europe where he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, as a Senior Research Scientist. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, U.K., and at the University College Cork, Republic of Ireland. From 2009 to 2017, he was Full Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Microelectronics, Bioelectronics and Sensor Systems (LMBS) at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). In 2017, he joined both the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences (HSLU) and EPFL as a part-time Senior Research Scientist to continue his work on smart sensor systems.

His research interests are in the fields of physical, chemical, and biomedical microsensors; sensor fusion algorithms; analog and mixed-signal IC design; MEMS; embedded systems; avionics and bioelectronics.