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Name Serena Farina
Email serena.farina@inaf.it
Phone +39 0223699465
Url https://serenafarina.github.io
Summary An electronic engineer exploring the applications of single-photon detectors

Work

  • Mar. 2025 - now

    Pavia, Italy

    Post-doctoral fellow
    Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia
    Development of rad-hard detectors for space applications based on silicon photomultipliers (SiPM).
    • Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM)
  • Mar. 2024 - now

    Milan, Italy

    Post-doctoral fellow
    National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF-IASF)
    Design of the electronics acquisition system for a V-UV spectrograph based on a photon counting microchannel plate (MCP). Support to the debug of the V-UV detector of the Metis instrument on board Solar Orbiter.
    • Microchannel plates (MCP), V-UV detectors

Education

  • 2020 - 2024

    Milan, Italy

    Ph.D. in Information Technology (Electronics)
    Politecnico di Milano
    Topic: Toward enhanced time-correlated single-photon counting systems: from theoretical studies to field applications. Research on photon timing systems with single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs).
    • Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), photon counting e timing, TCSPC, high-speed electronic systems
  • 2018 - 2018

    Zurich, Switzerland

    Erasmus
    ETH Zurich
  • 2017 - 2020

    Milan, Italy

    M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering
    Politecnico di Milano
    • Electronics Systems, Digital and analog integrated circuits, Basics of Semiconductors
  • 2014 - 2017

    Milan, Italy

    B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering
    Politecnico di Milano
    • Basics of Electronics, Informatics and Mechanics

Skills

Electronics
Hardware design
Printed circuit boards (PCBs)
FPGAs and SoCs
Microcontrollers
Laboratory
Test instrumentation
Circuit debug
Detector characterization
Setup automation

Languages

Italian
Native speaker
English
Fluent
French
Basic

Interests

Single-photon detectors
Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs)
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs)
Microchannel plates (MCPs)
Photon counting
Photon timing
Astronomy instrumentation
VIS detectors
UV detectors
Quantum astronomy instruments
High-time resolution instruments