Professor of Electronics, Department of Information Engineering
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Born in Montecatini Terme (Pistoia) in 1965, married with one child, Luca Fanucci graduated with honors in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pisa in 1992 where he obtained his PhD in Information Engineering in 1996.

From 1992 to 1996, he carried out his research activities at the Department of Electrical Systems of the European Space Research and Technology Centre of the European Space Agency based in Noordwijk, Holland.

From 1996 to 2004, he was a researcher for the National Research Council at the Centre for Radio Transmission in Pisa.

Since 2004, he has taught Electronics at the Department of Information Engineering, first as an associate professor and then as a full professor.

Institutional assignments

From January 2016 to October 2022, he was Rector’s Delegate for the Integration of Students and Staff with Disabilities and SLD, first for the Rector Prof. Massimo Augello and then for the Rector Prof. Paolo Maria Mancarella.

In January 2022, he was elected member of the Board of Directors of the National Conference of University Delegates for Disability (CNUDD).

Since 2007 he has been a member of the Teaching Board for the PhD programme in Computer Engineering of the University of Pisa and since 2018 he has been elected as a member of the same PhD Council.

From 2013 to 2021 he was the director of the National Laboratory AsTech (Assistive Technologies) of the National Inter University Consortium for Information Technology (CINI).

Scientific  and teaching activities

Professor Fanucci has taught in the field of microelectronic system design for the Master’s Degree Programmes in Electronic Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, Computer Engineering. He has taught in the field of inclusive teaching technologies for the Master’s Degree Programmes in Primary Education Sciences and for the Specialization school programme in teaching support activities for students with disabilities.

His main research activities focus on design technologies for integrated circuits and embedded systems, and especially on system-level design, hardware and software co-design, low power consumption. The main application areas are telecommunications, earth and space vehicles, medical systems and technological aids for disabled and elderly people.

He was the principal investigator for several regional and national projects financed on a competitive basis by the Tuscan Region, the Ministry for Research and Education, the National Research Council and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics. He was also the head scientist in numerous European Union projects on research and development platforms such as FP6, FP7, AAL, ARTEMISIA, ENIAC and H2020.

His scientific activities have resulted in more than 400 publications on peer-reviewed journals and conferences, as well as two books, several book chapters and 40 national and international patents with more than 5,000 citations and an H-index of 34 (Google Scholar 2022)

He has served on numerous technical committees at international conferences in the field of electronic system design. In particular, he was Program Chair of the DSD 2008 and DATE 2014 international conferences, as well as General Chair of the DATE 2016, HiPEAC 2020 and Spacewire & SpaceFibre 2022 international conferences.

From 2018 to 2021 he was Vice-President in the conference for IEEE CEDA(Council on Electronic Design Automation). In 2019 he was acknowledged as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions in integrated electronic system design.

He is the Associate Editor of the IOS Press Technology and Disability journal. He was Associate Editor of the Elsevier Microprocessors and Microsystems journal (2008-2017) and the IET Computers & Digital Techniques journal (2014-2017).

He directs, along with Prof. Alessandra Lischi, the scientific collection “Progetti di Vita: Storie di studenti con disabilità”, published by Pisa University Press.

Professor Fanucci contributed to the establishment and development of several entrepreneurial entities in the microelectronics field in the area of Pisa, and especially, in May 2014 he co-founded the company Ingeniars, a spin-off from the University of Pisa, which specializes in the design and production of advanced products for high-speed satellite-borne communications and telemedicine systems.