Erika Covi

Erika Covi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, affiliated with the Faculty of Science and Engineering and the Bio-inspired Circuits & Systems group within the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. Her research focuses on neuromorphic engineering, leveraging emerging materials like ferroelectric and memristive devices to design bio-inspired circuits and systems. Key areas include ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs), spiking neurons, and neuromorphic edge computing. She collaborates on compact modeling for efficient circuit simulations and explores applications in energy-efficient neural networks. Her work integrates interdisciplinary approaches from materials science, electrical engineering, and computational neuroscience.

Research interests span device physics of ferroelectric materials, analog neuromorphic hardware, and neuromorphic computing architectures. She has contributed to studies on coincidence detection in spiking neurons using ferroelectric polarization and tunable synaptic working memory with memristive devices. Current projects emphasize bridging device-level innovations with system-level neuromorphic applications, aiming to advance bio-inspired computing technologies.