Adrian M. Ionescu is an Associate Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL), Switzerland. He received the B.S./M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania and the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, in 1989 and 1997, respectively. He held staff and/or visiting positions at LETI-Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique, Grenoble, CNRS, Grenoble, and Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1998 and 1999. He is currently the Director of the Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory and Director of the Doctoral School of Microsystems and Microelectronics of EPFL.

Prof. Ionescu has published more than 200 articles in international journals and conference proceedings. He was the recipient of three Best Paper Awards at international conferences and the Annual Award of the Technical Section of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in 1994. He served on the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) and European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC) technical committees and was the Technical Program Committee Chair of the ESSDERC in 2006.

He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Cluster for Application and Technology Research in Europe on Nanoelectronics (CATRENE) and was appointed as the national representative of Switzerland to the European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council (ENIAC).