Scientific Director

Born in Milano, Italy, on 23 December 1961.

Since December 8th, 2005, the Scientific Director of IIT has been Roberto Cingolani.

1985 Degree in Physics, Bari University.
1988 PhD in Physics, Bari University
1989 Diploma di Perfezionamento in Physics, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
1989 - 1991 staff member at Max Planck Institut for Festkoerperforschung in Stuttgart (Germany).
1992 Associate Professor of Physics, University of Lecce.
During 1997 Visiting Professor at the Institute of Industrial Sciences, Tokyo University, Tokyo Japan.
During 1998 Visiting Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond Virginia, USA
2000 Professor of General Physics at the Engineering Faculty, University of Lecce.
2001 Founder and Director of the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL) of INFM at Lecce University
Since December 2005 Scientific Director of IIT (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) - Genova

R. Cingolani is author or co-author of about 580 papers in international journals, and he holds about 30 patents.

The research activity carried over the years has been dealing with:

Structural, optical and electronic properties of quantum nanostructures of semiconductors.
Optical spectroscopy of solids and modelling of the electronic states (1985-1995).
Nanofabrication of quantum nanostructures by optical, X-ray and electron-beam lithography (1990-2000).
Molecular nanotechnologies for plastic photonics, OLED e plastic electronic devices (since 2000). Bio-nanotechnologies, biomimetic systems, biological electronic devices (since 2003). Nanochemistry, study and interdisciplinary application of nanoparticles of controlled size, shape and composition for new fluorophores, intelligent drug delivery, nanocomposite materials.

Since 2001 he has been member of various panels of the European Commission within the Sixth and Seventh Frame Programs in the field of Nanotechnology, New materials and New production systems.
From 2002 he has been member of different panels of the Ministry of Research and University (Technical Secretariat for the National Research Plan, Commission for the selection the Centres of Excellence)
From 2000 to 2003 he was executive Vice-president of the National Institute for the Physics of the Matter (INFM).
From 2003 to 2006 Adviser to the CNR "Commissaire", and coordinator of the organizing committee of the CNR Science of Matter Department

1978 National finalist of the X European Philips Contest for Young Researchers and Inventors
1980 and 1981 European finalist of the XII and XII European Philips Contest for Young Researchers and Inventors (Amsterdam and Bruxelles, respectively)
1981 Awarded of the title of Alfiere del Lavoro by the President of the Italian Republic for the scientific and school curriculum
1986 and 1990 Prize of the Italian Physical Society for young researchers
1999 Awarded of the INFM prize "Ugo Campisano", for researchers in the field of Semiconductor Physics
2000 Awarded of the "ST-Microelectronics" prize by the Italian Physical Society
2006 Awarded of the title of Commendatore della Repubblica by the President of the Italian Republic
2006 Awarded of the Premio Guido Dorso by "Senato della Repubblica" for his Research Activity