SEMICON Europa 2016

Florin Udrea
Professor
Cambridge University


Florin Udrea is a professor in semiconductor engineering and head of the High Voltage Microelectronics and Sensors Laboratory at University of Cambridge. He received his PhD degree in power devices from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, in 1995. Since October 1998, Prof. Florin Udrea has been an academic with the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK. He is currently leading a research group in power semiconductor devices and solid-state sensors that has won an international reputation during the last 20 years. Prof. Udrea has published over 400 papers in journals and international conferences. He holds 70 patents with 20 more patent applications in power semiconductor devices and sensors.

Prof. Florin Udrea co-founded three companies, Cambridge Semiconductor (Camsemi) in power ICs – sold to Power Integrations, Cambridge CMOS Sensors (CCS) in the field of smart sensors and Cambridge Microelectronics in Power Devices. Cambridge CMOS Sensors has been recently acquired by ams. Prof. F. Udrea is now a senior director in ams.
Prof. Florin Udrea is also a board director in Cambridge Enterprise. For his ‘outstanding personal contribution to British Engineering’ he has been awarded the Silver Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2015 Prof. Florin Udrea was elected a Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering



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