Mario Lanza

My name is Mario Lanza, I am an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). My work focuses on enhancing the performance of silicon microchips and other integrated circuits using two-dimensional (2D) layered materials, which have outstanding electronic, thermal, physical, chemical and optical properties. Silicon microchips are the key human invention of modern times, as they enabled the fabrication of all kinds of machines that improved the productivity and life quality of millions of persons around the world. The integration of 2D materials in silicon microchips could increase the computing speed, reduce the energy consumption and extend the lifetime of most of the electronic products that we use in our daily life. In the past few years, our work was published in Science, Nature Electronics and Advanced Materials (among others). For more information, please check: https://lanza.kaust.edu.sa/