**Sergio Saponara**

Sergio Saponara is an Italian scientist, engineer and entrepreneur, active in the fields of electronics and automotive engineering. He is Full Professor of Electronics at the University of Pisa, Italy, where he is also President of the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronic Engineering. He got his Master and Ph.D. degrees cum laude in Electronic Engineering in 1999 and 2003, respectively. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded the company IngeniArs in 2014, and is the winner of several innovation prizes, such as the H2020 SME Instrument. He founded the Summer School in Enabling Technologies for Industrial IoT in 2016, and is also its director. The organisation was awarded by the IEEE CAS society in 2017 and 2018. In 2020, he was appointed director of the Automotive Electronics and Powertrain Electrifications specialization course for retraining in the field of vehicle electrification for the Vitesco Technologies (Continental) group.
