Autore: Franco Cacialli

Paolo Samorì is full professor of Physical Chemistry and senior member as well as deputy director of the Institut de Science et d”Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) of the Université de Strasbourg (Ud S) & CNRS where he is also Director of the Nanochemistry Laboratory. He is also a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). After his Ph D in Chemistry from the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, he was permanent research scientist at the National Research Council in Bologna, Italy. His research interests span applications of scanning probe microscopies, supramolecular electronics and the fabrication of molecular-scale nanodevices. Paolo Samorì has received numerous awards, including the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists 2001, the Vincenzo Caglioti award 2006 granted by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei , the “Nicolò Copernico” award 2009 (Italy), the prix “Guy Ourisson” 2010 du Cercle Gutenberg, and the ERC starting grant 2010. Franco Cacialli is Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, UK. After his Ph D in Electronics at the University of Pisa, Italy, he moved to Cambridge, UK, where he held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to work on the electrical and optical properties of organic semiconductors (1996-2000). In 2001 he joined UCL, and set up a research group focusing on the exploitation of supramolecular architectures for plastic electronics, as well as fabrication and characterization of organic semiconductor nanostructures. Franco Cacialli was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2009.