Massimo Spina was born in Italy, in 1986. In 2009 he received his M.Sc. degree in Micro and NanoTechnologies for Integrated Systems from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble and Politecnico di Torino.He is currently pursuing his Phd studies at the Laboratory of Physics of Complex Matter at EPFL.