Degree in Physics from the University of Genoa (IT) and the PhD from the University of Groningen (NL).
Current position: senior scientist at CNR-IOM in Trieste and spokesman of bIOMed division.
Visiting scientist
2003 Princeton (NJ-US)
2014 -2015, Molecular Foundry-Berkeley (CA-US)
2018 UC-Denver (CO-US)
Main research interests:
1992-1998 electronic properties of semiconductor heterostructures with INFM in Trieste and with SNS in Pisa, Italy.
1999-2003 scanning probe microscopy, nano-lithography and low temperature SNOM.
2003-today nanobiomechanics and nanosensors: applications to life science of miroelectromechanical systems and scanning probe microscopy with a particular focus on mechanobiology.
2007-2013 scientific coordinator of the Nano-Bio-Analysis Laboratory of the Center for BioMedicine (CBM S.c.r.l. - Trieste)
2011-today scientific board of the PhD in Nanotechnology at University of Trieste
2013-today adjunct professor - university of Trieste for nanotechnology and advanced microscopy at the master degree in biotechnology
He co-authored 123 publications on international journals.
