Enrico Serra

Enrico Serra received the degree in electrical engineering from the University of Padua, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in industrial and information engineering from the University of Udine, Italy, in 2003. During the Ph.D. degree, he was involved in the evaluation of the electromagnetic behaviors of multistrand cable-in-conduit cables and joints used for fusion energy (ITER Tokamak nuclear fusion reactor) and particle physics research. He joined the Centre for Material and Microsystems of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in collaborating for the development of transducers for high-precision measurements (ground-based gravitational wave detectors) in 2004 and in the Cleanroom Facility as a Designer and a Process Engineer of MEMS sensors and silicon solar cells for concentration photovoltaics. Since 2013, he has been a Research Associate with the Delft Institute of Microsystems and Nanoelectronics, Delft University of Technology. He has been working at the INFN–TIFPA since 2015 coordinating the project HUMOR that aims at exploring possible effects of quantum gravity with opto-mechanical oscillators. He is currently involved in developing low-loss MEMS and micro-optomechanical-microsystems devices for fundamental physics experiments in quantum optics, and non-equilibrium properties of thermal noise.