Daniele Passeri (M'96) received the M.Sc. (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. Since November 2000, he has been with the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Perugia, as a Research Associate. He is also with the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Perugia. His main research interests are in the fields of modeling, simulation, and characterization of semiconductor devices and VLSI design of CMOS active pixel sensors.