Andrea C. Ferrari earned a PhD in electrical engineering from Cambridge University, after a Laurea in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is the head of the Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy group at the Department of Engineering and Nanoscience Centre of Cambridge University. He is a University Reader in Nanotechnology, a Royal Society Wofson Research Merit Award Holder, and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. His research interests include nanomaterials growth, modelling, characterization, and devices. In particular, he focuses on graphene, nanotubes, diamond-like carbon, and nanowires for applications in electronics and photonics. He has published over 200 papers and given over 120 invited, keynote, plenary presentations to international conferences. He has more than 10000 citations to his papers and H index 45.