Bay Area Chapter
About BAC
The Bay Area Chapter is the ISSNAF network in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, including Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz.
Founded in 2017, it currently includes 470 researchers, scholars and technologists who work in more than 200 universities, research centers and companies across the greater San Francisco Bay Area in all disciplines and at all career levels.
BAC Membership
BAC is a thriving community of over 350 members representing nearly 90 institutions in the greater Bay Area that fosters collaborations and knowledge sharing. Our members come from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines and are engaged in cutting edge research and innovation activities in universities, national labs, large corporations and startups. They bring diverse skills and experiences spanning from graduate students to post-docs, professors, department chairs as well as CEOs, corporate managers and entrepreneurs.
Executive Committee
Chair
ALESSANDRA LANZARA
Endowed Kittel Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley; founding Director of Center for Sustainable Materials and Innovation at UCB and director of Berkeley Discovery. Elected to the American Academy of Art and Sciences, European Academy of Science and American Physical Society.
ROMEO BECCHERELLI
Romeo Beccherelli earned his Master’s and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome. He worked at the University of Oxford before joining the National Research Council of Italy in 2001, where he advanced to Director of Research and was seconded to UNESCO in 2016.
He has reviewed for the European Commission, Italian ministries, and the IPCEI–Microelectronics program (€2.2B). Author of ~250 papers and two patents, he has led projects funded by the European Commission, ESA, the Italian Government, and industry.
His research spans liquid crystal technologies, photonics, plasmonics, and metasurfaces for wireless communications. Since November 2023, he has been Scientific Attaché at the Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco.
EMANUELE LUGLI
Assistant Professor of Italian Art History at Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History.
Co-Director of the Public Humanities Initiative at Stanford University.
Past chair
ALESSANDRO RATTI
Division Deputy for Accelerator Technology and system manager for electronics systems at the ALS-U project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Vice chair
LUIGI PISTAFERRI
Professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University and the “Ralph Landau” Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Affiliated with NBER, CEPR, IZA, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
GIANLUCA IACCARINO
Bosch Chair and Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and Director of Exascale Computing Engineering Center at Stanford University.
Founder of Cascade Technologies Inc (now part of Cadence Systems).
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
MARIA LUISA GORNO TEMPINI
Charles Schwab Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at UCSF; Director of the Language Neurobiology Laboratory at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center; co-Director the UCSF Dyslexia Center and UCSF-UC Berkeley Schwab Dyslexia and Cognitive Diversity Center
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For information: bac_chapter@issnaf.org