Mario Lanza  is an IEEE Fellow and Full Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was headhunted under the highly selective “Strategic Hire” program of the university, and he is currently acting as Deputy Head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department. Before joining NUS, he got the PhD in Electronic Engineering in 2010 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he graduated with honors and 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. In 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 nano-electronics.

He has published over 250 research articles in top journals like Nature, Science and Nature Electronics, many of them becoming highly cited, and he has been plenary, keynote, tutorial and invited speaker in over 150 conferences. Many of his former students are now Professors in top universities, such as Peking University and Fudan University, among others. He is often consulted by leading semiconductor companies and publishers. He serves on the board governors of the IEEE - Electron Devices Society, and is member of the technical and management committee of top conferences in the field of electron devices, like IEDM, IRPS and IPFA. He is the founder of two startup companies: Web of Talents (2021) and Newmorphic (2026). He speaks fluently five languages: English, Chinese, German, Spanish and Catalan.