Vittorio Bianco (VB) received the M.S. degree (cum laude) in telecommunications engineering from the University “Federico II” of Naples, Naples, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree in materials and structures engineering, in 2016. He won the IEEE Best Doctoral Thesis in Optoelectronics 2016 Award, with the Ph.D. thesis titled “Digital Holography Microscopy at lab-on-a-chip scale: novel algorithms and recording strategies”. In 2022 he received the OSA Outstanding Reviewer Recognition from Optica (formerly OSA). In 2023 he won the Best Italian young researcher award in the category: AI, Big-data & High-Performance Computing.
VB has performed research in different labs in Italy, Germany and USA, gaining team-work skills, independence and responsibility attitudes in carrying out project activities. In 2011, he worked with the German Aerospace Centre, Munich, Germany, in the fields of SAR interferometry and tomography. In 2017, he was a Postdoc with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, working in the field of lensless inline digital holography and holographic flow cytometry for point of care diagnostics and water quality monitoring. Since 2012, he has been with the Italian National Research Council, where he is currently working at the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI-CNR) as a Senior Staff Researcher. VB’s research interests include the fields of quantitative phase imaging (QPI), optical systems engineering, image processing and computational microscopy, Digital Holography, Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy, in-flow holographic tomography, bio-speckle analysis, Line Scanning holographic microscopy, Artificial Intelligence applied to microfluidics, Lab on a Chip imaging, single-cell analysis, medical diagnostics and environmental monitoring (detection of emerging contaminants, heavy metals, microplastics, using label-free QPI, characterization of phytoplankton for taxonomy, ecotoxicology assays, evaluation of climate change effects).