People
Dario Pisignano |
Dario Pisignano, PhD in Physics, is Full Professor at the University of Pisa, where he coordinates an interdisciplinary group working on Nanotechnologies on Soft Matter at the Department of Physics “Enrico Fermi” of the University of Pisa, and at NEST, CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze. He was previously Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Physics “Ennio De Giorgi” of the University of Salento and at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory in Lecce. His research activity is focused on the development of advanced polymer processing and lithographic approaches, electrospinning, and soft lithographies, for realizing micro-nanostructured devices, organic lasers and functional systems. He has been International Evaluator for projects for the National Science Foundation (NSF) U.S.A., the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) and the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. He has been member of the International Advisory Committee of the “International Conference on Electrospinning” and of the Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization Committee of the “Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics” (CLEO). He serves as Referee of the main international journals in the fields of Solid-State Physics, Nanotechnology and Materials Science, including Physical Review Letters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Materials, and Laser & Photonics Reviews. He authored about 170 papers and five patents, and has been awarded the “Young researcher” Prize at the National INFM-Meeting, the International Obducat Prize for Nanoimprinting Lithography, the National Award “Future in Research” of the Ministry of Education, University and Research, the “Sergio Panizza” Award for Optoelectronics and Photonics (Italian Physics Society, SIF), and a Prize by the Erwin Schrödinger Society for Nanosciences. He is the recipient of the NANO-JETS ERC Ideas Starting Grant. |
Andrea Camposeo |
Andrea Camposeo, PhD in Physics, is senior researcher at NEST, CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze in Pisa. He was previously staff researcher at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory in Lecce. He has been visiting scientist at the University of Bonn, Toronto, Harvard and FORTH and has authored more than 75 papers. His research activities include the investigation of the optical properties of light-emitting polymers, composites, organic crystals and polymer nanofibers, the design and characterization of organic-based light-emitting devices and the development of optically-active nanostructures by electrospinning and two-photon lithography for nanophotonic applications. He is co-founder and researcher of Soft Materials and Technologies S.r.l (SM&T S.r.l.), a spin-off company of the National Research Council (Institute of Nanosciences). He has been awarded the “Applied Physics” award at the XCVI Italian Physical Society meeting in 2010, the “CNR-Start-Cup” award in 2010 and the “Start-cup Puglia” award in 2011. |
Luana Persano |
Luana Persano, PhD in Innovative Materials and Technologies (University of Salento) is staff researcher at NEST, CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze in Pisa. She was previously at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory in Lecce. She has been Marie-Curie fellow at FORTH, Greece, and visiting scientist at Harvard University and University of Illinois. Her research interests include nano-manufacturing and lithographic processes on organics and nanocomposites semiconductors, nanophotonic devices, and electrospinning. She has authored more than 60 papers on international journals, one international patent and several seminars and talks to national and international conferences. She has been awarded the International Obducat Prize for Nanoimprinting Lithography in 2005, “CNR-Start-Cup” award in 2010, “Start-cup Puglia” award in 2011 and the “Bellisario”award as Young Talent in Industrial Engineering in 2011. She is founder and researcher of the CNR high-tech spin-off SM&T S.r.l (Soft Materials and Technologies S.r.l), spin-off of the National Research Council, which focuses on the development of micro and nanotechnologies for the production of nanostructured soft materials through the exploitation of unconventional soft lithography and electric-voltage driven techniques. |
Sauro Succi |
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Vincenzo Resta |
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Maria Moffa |
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Marco Lauricella |
Marco Lauricella, PhD in Physics (University College of Dublin), graduated in Chemistry at “La Sapienza” University of Rome, is NANO-JETS post doc fellow at CNR-IAC, and member of the Complex Systems in Fluid Dynamics and Biology group working in the field of electrospinning of polymer nanofibers. His expertise is in atomistic computational methods, both quantum and classical. In particular he studied diatomic molecules containing heavy elements. He investigated relativistic effects on molecular dissociation energies via the Dirac equation, elucidating the chemical stability of many compounds of industrial interest. In the framework of statistical physics, he studied rare events via advanced sampling methods. His research interests include transition phase processes, and particularly nucleation phenomena of clathrate compounds. In this framework he also developed a new cluster analysis algorithm for the automatic recognition of clathrate structures. In 2014 he started to work on models of polymer nanofibers and electrospinning processes, in the framework of the ERC NANO-JETS project. |
Riccardo Di Corato |
Riccardo Di Corato, PhD in Science and Interdisciplinary Technologies, is a post-doc fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Physics “Ennio De Giorgi” of the University of Salento. After getting his doctorate diploma, he worked with the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova, Italy, with the Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes of CNRS in Paris, France, and with the Nanoscience Institute of CNR in Lecce, Italy. His research activities involved the development of a new procedure to obtain magnetic nanostructures based on the controlled clustering of nanocrystals (EU patented); the development of magnetic liposomes for hyperthermia treatment and photodynamic therapy; the preparation of multi-cellular scaffolds for tissue engineering; the study of the effects of cellular internalization on nanoparticles properties; the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical imaging. In 2014 he has been lecturer at Physics Department, University of Bari for a course on “Synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanoparticles”. He coauthored 26 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journal and one book chapter.
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Ivan Coluzza |
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Giovanni Morello |
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Vito Fasano |
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Luigi Romano |
Luigi Romano is currently hired as NANO-JETS research fellow at CNR-NANO. His research includes the optical characterization of light-emitting dyes and natural polymers in the form of nanofibers. He graduated magna cum laude in Medical Biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology in 2014 with a master thesis on the release studies of embedded chromophores and bioluminescent proteins in core-shell fibers produced by coaxial electrospinning, for drug delivery applications. In 2010 he graduated in Biotechnology with a bachelor thesis in organic chemistry, focused on the characterization of synthesized conjugated molecules, graphene and derived-complexes by chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques (TLC, GC, GC-MS and NMR).
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Martina Montinaro |
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Alberto Portone |
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