Andrea Giudice received the Ph.D. degree in electronic and communication engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2003. He is currently the Managing Director of Micro Photon Devices (MPD), expert in the design, validation, and characterisation of electronic devices and circuits. In 1997, he was a Summer Student with National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC now Tyndall), Cork, Ireland, where he designed and tested avalanche photodiodes for single-photon detection. Deep know-how in single-photon detectors and applications gained during his Ph.D. with Prof. Cova's Group and during his previous career in MPD, as a Senior R&D Engineer.