Valerio Pruneri is an ICREA industrial professor, Corning Inc. Chair and group leader at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO). Previously he worked for Avanex, Corning, Pirelli, and the Optoelectronics Research Centre (University of Southampton).
He has more than 30 issued or filed patent families, 60 invited talks at major international conferences and 250 refereed papers. He serves on the advisory board of ACREO Fiber Optic Centre, VLC Photonics and Medlumics SL.
In recognition to his effort in industrially oriented research, he received the Philip Morris Prize for Scientific and Technological Research, the Pirelli Research Fellowship, the IBM Faculty Award, the Corning Inc. Professorship and the Duran Farell Prize for Technological Research.