Francesca  Cavallo

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Associate Professor, ECE Associate Chair

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Biography

Francesca Cavallo comes to UNM from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has been employed as a scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She received her doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technical University of Chemnitz in Chemnitz, Germany, and she has had collaborations with scientists at ENEA in Portici, Italy and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. In addition to teaching at UNM, Cavallo will conduct research in the area of interface between nanotechnology and biology based on the use of inorganic nanomembranes to achieve a successful integration of biological cells and solid-state devices