Angelo Alberto Messina has worked with STMicroelectronics for 14 years, and is currently with its corporate R&D and public affairs department. He's been a project and dissemination manager of several European research projects. Messina received his Electronics Engineering degree from the University of Catania, and his Ph.D. in Advanced Technologies for the Photonics and the Optoelectronics and Electromagnetic Modeling from the University of Messina.