Sana Ibrahim received the Ph.D. degree in Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnologies from TIMA Laboratory, UGA, Grenoble, France, in 2024. In 2025, she joined Grenoble Institute of Technology (INP), Grenoble, France, as a research engineer at Phelma within the European project FAMES. During her doctoral studies, her research focused on the design of a wideband, low-power RF front-ends in FD-SOI technology. Her current work involves on developing and contributing to a comprehensive curriculum covering both analog/RF and digital design flows, aimed to provide designers with the foundational knowledge needed to develop integrated circuits using FD-SOI technology. Photo: Ibrahim/Grenoble

Christina Hirschl is CEO of Silicon Austria Labs (SAL), a research centre for electronic and software-based systems with around 400 employees from 50 nations across sites in Graz, Villach and Linz. A physicist by training, she holds a doctorate from the University of Vienna and spent years in industry before joining CTR in Carinthia in 2010. She built up SAL's Villach site as head of Sensor Systems and has led the organisation as CEO since 2023, driven by a focus on turning applied research into industrial value.