Donald Lupo

Donald Lupo is a professor in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering and heads the Laboratory for Future Electronics at Tampere University of Technology, Finland, since August 2010. He has a diverse career spanning 24 years in industrial research and development in functional materials for photonics and electronics, during which he has worked in chemical, electronic, and display industries and as an independent consultant, working for and with companies such as Hoechst AG, Sony Europe, NTera, UPM Kymmene, and Merck. During his industrial career, he led groundbreaking work in organic nonlinear optics, polymer LEDs, solid-state dye solar cells, and paper-like displays. He is author on over 60 publications and inventor on over 40 patents and applications.