Francesco received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich, and the Ph.D. degree from the Integrated Systems Labortory at the same university in 1999 under the supervision of Prof. Qiuting Huang. From 2000 to 2002 he worked for TChip Semiconductor as RF/analogue IC designer and from 2002 to 2008 at NemeriX SA as chief scientist for RF design. Since 2009 he is with Saphyrion Sagl as chief scientist, where he works in the development and industrialization of rad-hard space qualified RF/analog integrated circuits.