Rolando Ferrini
FEMTOPRINT
Rolando Ferrini is the chief product officer (CPO) at FEMTOPRINT. He earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1999 at the Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy, with a thesis on the optical properties of III-V semiconductor materials for electronics and optoelectronics. Between 2000 and 2004, he was a research associate at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he studied the optical properties of semiconductor-based photonic crystal devices. From 2004 to 2011, as a senior research associate at EPFL, he led activities on organic devices for optics, photonics, and lighting.
From 2011 to 2022, Ferrini worked at CSEM as group leader of MicroNano Optics and served as head of the Focus Area Photonics in 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, he founded the PHABULOuS pilot line for manufacturing freeform micro-optical components, acting both as project coordinator of the related Horizon 2020 project and as managing director.