Personale docente

PPaolo Cova is Professor of Electronics with the Department of Engineering and Architecture (DIA) of University of Parma. After technical education in electronics he received the MS degree in Electronic Engineering in 1992 with full grades, and the Ph.D. in Information Technology in 1996, both from the University of Parma.
During the three-years Ph.D. course he worked on the characterization and reliability evaluation of electronics and opto-electronics III-V compound semiconductor devices.
In 2000 he was enrolled as Assistant Professor, and in 2017 as Professor. Since 1996 he has also been involved in research activity in the field of high-power silicon devices.
This activity started in the framework of a three-year European project (BRITE-RAPSDRA) focusing on the reliability of IGBTs for railway traction: both accelerated life-tests and thermo-mechanical simulation were performed as a part of this effort. Paolo Cova's interest in power semiconductors has since moved to high-power P-i-N diodes and on thermal modeling of power devices and converters.
Since 1999 he has been responsible for the clean room and semiconductor processing facilities of the DIA, and has acted as a scientific coordinator for the DIA research unit in a national project on advanced space photovoltaic cells funded by the Italian Space Agency. In 2004/06 he was scientific coordinator for DIA research unit in a national project (PRIN) on power DC/DC switching converters.
Paolo Cova is coauthor of more than 200 scientific papers in international journals or international conference proceedings, in the field of both III-V compound semiconductor and power devices and converters. He is reviewer for international journals (including IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices, IEEE Transaction on Device and Materials Reliability, Transactions on Power Electronics, IEE Electronics Letters). He was one time General Chair and two times TPC chair of the European Conference on Reliability of Electron Devices (ESREF) and Guest Editor for three special numbers of the journal Microelectronics Reliability. Since 2018 he is Associate Editor of the international journal Microelectronics Reliability.
He is inventor in two international patents.
Paolo Cova has been involved in teaching with the School of Engineering of the University of Parma since 1995. At present he is teaching Industrial electronics at the Electronics Engineering Master course and Electronics at the Computer System Technologies Engineering course.
He was member of the Departmental International Mobility Commission from 2017 to 2021, and head of the same commission from 2012 to 2017 and from 2021 to now. From 2019 to he was Vicar President of the Master Course in Electronic Engineering.