People

Principal Investigator

Mario Lanza

Title

Associate Professor

Degree

PhD

Research Interests

Neuromorphic computing, Neuro-Synaptic Random Access Memory (NSRAM), Memristor, 2D materials, nanoelectronics

Group Webpage

https://lanzalab.org/

Office Location

9 Engineering Drive 1, Block EA, Office 05-28

Biography

Dr. Mario Lanza is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore, since August 2024. He got the PhD in Electronic Engineering in 2010 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he won the extraordinary PhD prize. In 2010-2011 he was NSFC postdoctoral fellow at Peking University, and in 2012-2013 he was Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. On September 2013 he joined Soochow University (in China), where he promoted until the rank of Full Professor. Between October 2020 and July 2024 he was full-time Associate Professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (in Saudi Arabia), where he became known for his work in the field of nano-electronics. He has published over 250 research articles in top journals like Nature, Science and Nature Electronics, many of them becoming highly cited. He has been plenary, keynote, tutorial and invited speaker in over 150 conferences, and he has received some of the most prestigious awards in the world (such as the IEEE Fellow). He has been often consulted by leading semiconductor companies and publishers. He is an active member of the board governors of the IEEE – Electron Devices Society, and has been involved in the technical and management committee of top conferences in the field of electron devices, including IEDM, IRPS and IPFA. He speaks fluently five languages: English, Chinese, German, Spanish and Catalan.

Selected Publications

  • Sebastian Pazos, Kaichen Zhu, Marco A. Villena, Osamah Alharbi, Wenwen Zheng, Yaqing Shen, Yue Yuan, Yue Ping, Mario Lanza. Synaptic and neural behaviours in a standard silicon transistor. Nature 640, 69–76 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08742-4
  • Mario Lanza, Sebastian Pazos, Fernando Aguirre, Abu Sebastian, Manuel Le Gallo, Syed M. Alam, Sumio Ikegawa, J. Joshua Yang, Elisa Vianello, Meng-Fan Chang, Gabriel Molas, Ishai Naveh, Daniele Ielmini, Ming Liu, Juan B. Roldan. The growing memristor industry. Nature 640, 613–622 (2025). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08733-5
  • Kaichen Zhu, Sebastian Pazos, Fernando Aguirre, Yaqing Shen, Yue Yuan, Wenwen Zheng, Osamah Alharbi, Marco A. Villena, Bin Fang, Xinyi Li, Alessandro Milozzi, Matteo Farronato, Miguel Muñoz-Rojo, Tao Wang, Ren Li, Hossein Fariborzi, Juan B. Roldan, Guenther Benstetter, Xixiang Zhang, Husam Alshareef, Tibor Grasser, Huaqiang Wu, Daniele Ielmini, Mario Lanza. Hybrid 2D/CMOS microchips for memristive applications. Nature, 618, 57–62 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05973-1
  • Jing Xie, Ali Ebadi Yekta, Fahad Al Mamun, Kaichen Zhu, Maolin Chen, Sebastian Pazos, Wenwen Zheng, Xixiang Zhang, Seth Ariel Tongay, Xinyi Li, Huaqiang Wu, Robert Nemanich, Deji Akinwande, Mario Lanza, Ivan Sanchez Esqueda. ON-chip direct synthesis of boron nitride memristors by wafer-scale CMOS-compatible PECVD. Nature Nanotechnology.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01988-z
  • Yaqing Shen, Kaichen Zhu, Yiping Xiao, Dominic Waldhör, Abdulrahman H. Basher, Theresia Knobloch, Sebastian Pazos, Xianhu Liang, Wenwen Zheng, Yue Yuan, Juan B. Roldan, Udo Schwingenschlögl, He Tian, Huaqiang Wu, Thomas F. Schranghamer6, Nicholas Trainor, Joan M. Redwing, Saptarshi Das, Tibor Grasser, Mario Lanza. Two-dimensional-materials-based transistors using hexagonal boron nitride dielectrics and metal gate electrodes with high cohesive energy. Nature Electronics, 7, 856–867 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01233-w
  • Sebastian Pazos, Yaqing Shen, Haoran Zhang, Jordi Verdú, Andrés Fontana, Wenwen Zheng, Yue Yuan, Osamah Alharbi, Yue Ping, Eloi Guerrero, Lluis Acosta, Pedro de Paco, Dimitra Psychogiou, Atif Shamim, Deji Akinwande and Mario Lanza. Memristive circuits based on multilayer hexagonal boron nitride for radiofrequency and millimetre wave applications. Nature Electronics, 7, 557–566 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-024-01192-2

I-FIM Publications:

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2025

Lai, Wenhui; Lee, Jong Hak; Yeo, Zhen Yuan; Yuan, Yue; Liu, Yuqing; Shi, Lu; Pu, Yanhui; Ong, Yong Kang; Limpo, Carlos Maria Alava; Rao, Yifan; Xiong, Ting; Lanza, Mario; Loh, Duane N; Ozyilmaz, Barbaros

Robust Silicon-Based Anode with High Energy Density upon Dual Welding Encapsulation

ACS NANO, 19 (43), pp. 38040-38052, 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c13278.

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Lai, Wenhui; Lee, Jong Hak; Yuan, Yue; Ong, Yong Kang; Limpo, Carlos; Shi, Lu; Pu, Yanhui; Rao, Yifan; Lanza, Mario; Ozyilmaz, Barbaros

Adjustable SiC interfacial layers toward reliable Si-based anode applications

NANOSCALE HORIZONS, 10 (11), pp. 2931-2944, 2025, DOI: 10.1039/d5nh00338e.

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Zhu, Kaichen; Lanza, Mario

Pioneering real-time genomic analysis by in-memory computing: In-memory computing

NATURE COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE, 5 (10), pp. 850-851, 2025, DOI: 10.1038/s43588-025-00883-w.

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Zheng, Wenwen; Pazos, Sebastian; Yuan, Yue; Zhu, Kaichen; Shen, Yaqing; Ping, Yue; Alharbi, Osamah; Krotkus, Simonas; Pasko, Sergej; Mischke, Jan; Yengel, Emre; Henning, Alex; Elkazzi, Salim; Lanza, Mario

Scalable Production of Highly-Reliable Graphene-Based Microchips

ADVANCED MATERIALS, 37 (43), 2025, DOI: 10.1002/adma.202510501.

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Rao, Yifan; Lee, Jong Hak; Pu, Yanhui; Ong, Yong Kang; Shi, Lu; Lai, Wenhui; Limpo, Carlos; Yuan, Yue; Xiong, Ting; Lanza, Mario; Ozyilmaz, Barbaros

Reinforcement-free monolithic all-in-one structural supercapacitors

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL, 519 , 2025, DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2025.165492.

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