Asal Kiazadeh

Biography

Asal Kiazadeh received her PhD degree with highest distinction in Electronics and Optoelectronics at University of Algarve in a collaborative project with Philips Research Laboratories, in December 2013. Her thesis topic is resistive switching memories based on nanoparticles. She is senior researcher of distinction at i3N/CENIMAT of Nova de Lisboa University (recognized by competitive contest of CEEC, 4th edition- ref.2021.03386.CEECIND). Her research aims to investigate the electrical properties of a promising class of flexible materials based on amorphous oxide applied for memristors and thin film transistors (physical level-device level) for IoT applications. She has several Master students each year and has supervised more than 15 master students with thesis theme on memristive devices. Currently, she is principal investigator (PI) of the project NeurOxide (PTDC/NAN-. MAT/30812). The aim is to integrate thin film transistors and memristors for neuromorphic networks. she is orienting a research team consisting of four PhD students and two junior postdoc researchers. Furthermore, she developed a new course entitled Recording Electronic Information for Master students in Micro- and Nanotechnology, Electronics and Informatic (IT). It aims to give an overview on the current memory and computing technology trends from material and physics point of view up to the circuit level. She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers, of which 20 of them were published during the last 5 years. In most of the papers, she is either first author or corresponding author. She is first author of a book chapter in the 2nd editions of Advances in Non-Volatile Memory and Storage Technology. She is also a member in the organization team of the Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems (DoCEIS), since 2016 up to present. Concerning international collaborations, she collaborates with Prof. Weidong Zhang from Nanoelectronics Department of Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) for on-line training of AOS-based memristor cross bars. She is also orienting a shared PhD grant between UNL and LJMU. She is Guest Editor of Micromachines (IF: 2.53) for the Special Issue: Amorphous oxide semiconductor-based memristive devices and thin film transistors.
In terms of international recognition, it was my honour to serve as a jury member of the PhD defense of Dr. Carlos Rosario, whose work was under supervision of Prof. Rainer Waser, from RWTH Aachen, who is the leading scientist in oxide memristor technology world-wide.