Luis Azevedo Antunes earned his bachelor’s degree in Physical Engineering and a master’s degree in Micro- and Nanotechnology from the Munich University of Applied Sciences. During his master’s program, he spent a semester abroad at Clemson University in the USA. He received the Georg-Simon-Ohm Award for his master’s thesis titled “The Effects of Oxygen Defects on the Formation of the Ferroelectric Phase in Doped HfO2, Based on Density Functional Calculations.”, providing the motivation to pursue a Ph.D. in the same field. He is part of the team which secured second place at the Merck Innovation Cup for their work on neuro-inspired AI inference acceleration.

Luis has recently joined LENSIS as an external collaborator from the Munich University of Applied Sciences, a project partner of the D3PO initiative, “Dopant and Defect Physics for Device Optimization in Hafnium Oxide-based Devices.” This bilateral ANR-DFG project is in collaboration with CEA/LETI (Grenoble) and NaMLab (Dresden).