Research Structure

Darwin Caldwell received his B.Sc. and Ph.D in Robotics from the University of Hull in 1986 and 1990 respectively. In 1994 he received an M.Sc in Management from the University of Salford.

From 1989 to 2006 he was at the University of Salford as a Lecturer (1989-96), S. Lecturer (1996-97), Reader (1997-99) and finally Professor of Advanced Robotics in the Centre for Robotics and Automation (1999-2006).

He is a visiting/honorary Professor at The University of Manchester, The University of Sheffield, Kings’ College, London, The University of Bangor and Tianjin University, China.

Daniele Piomelliwas born and educated in Italy, where he earned his degree of Doctor of Pharmacy in 1982. He moved to New York City in 1983, where he studied Pharmacology and Neuroscience with James H. Schwartz and Eric Kandel at Columbia University, and later with Paul Greengard at the Rockefeller University.

Both of his mentors received in 2000 the Nobel Prize for their contributions to medicine.

After working at the INSERM in Paris (France) and at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego (CA), with Nobel Prize-winner Gerald Edelman, Dr. Piomelli joined the University of California, Irvine, where he is Professor of Pharmacology and Louise Turner Arnold Chair in the Neurosciences.

Vittorio Murino is full professor at the University of Verona, Italy, and director of the PAVIS (Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision) department at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. He took the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering in 1989 and the Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 1993 at the University of Genova, Italy.

He held a post-doctoral position from 1993 to 1995, working in the Signal Processing and Understanding Group of the Dept. of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Genova as supervisor of research activities on image processing for object recognition and pattern classification in underwater environments. From 1995 to 1998, he was assistant professor at the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Udine, Italy, and since 1998 he works at the University of Verona. He was chairman of the Department of Computer Science from 2001, year of foundation, to 2007. Prof. Murino is scientific responsible of several national and European projects, and evaluator of EU project proposals related to several frameworks and programs.

Enzo Di Fabrizio is director of the Nanostructures Department at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genova since 2009. He is also full professor of Physics at the University of Magna Grecia in Catanzaro (UMG) and director of the Bio and Nano engineering for Medicine-BIONEM Laboratory at UMG.

Doctor in physics at University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1987, his research in micro and nanotechnology started more than 20 years ago. He spent several years as visiting and associate scientist at the centre of excellence for X-ray lithography (CxrL) at University of Madison-Wisconsin, US. In 2001 he became permanent senior scientist and research director at INFM, where he was responsible for advanced projects on micro and nanofabrication at TASC laboratory and ELETTRA synchroton in Trieste; there he founded the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Litography (LILIT) for which he designed and built beamlines labs for soft and hard X-ray lithography. In 2004 he became Full Professor of physics at the University of Magna Graecia in Catanzaro and in 2007, 2011, 2012 he has been appointed as visiting Professor at IUSS in Pavia.

Liberato Manna received his MSc in Chemistry from the University of Bari (Italy) in 1996 and his PhD in Chemical Sciences from the same University in 2001. During his PhD studies, and later as postdoctoral fellow, he worked at the University of California Berkeley (USA).

In 2003 he moved back to Italy, as staff scientist at the National Nanotechnology Lab of CNR-INFM in Lecce, (Italy) where he became later responsible for the Nanochemistry Division in 2006.

In April 2009 he moved to the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova as head of the Nanochemistry Department.

Alberto Diaspro was born in Genoa, Italy, on April 7, 1959. He received is doctoral degree in electronic engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1983. He is University Professor in the Applied Physics Area. He is Head of the Nanophysics Unit of the Italian Institute of Technology.

AD is member of the University advisory Commitee for PhD Courses in Biotechnology (University of Genoa) and Medical Nanotechnology (University of Milan). AD has collaborations with IFOM - FIRC Oncology Institute, Milan, the Institute of Biophysics of the National Research Council (CNR) and NBT-IIT, Italian Institute of Technology. AD founded LAMBS (Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy, Bioimaging and Spectroscopy, www.lambs.it). AD is author of more than 170 international ISI publications. He is the President of OWLS (Optics With Life Sciences) and ICO (International Commission of Optics) representative.

Fabio Benfenati
Born in Bologna, Italy, on 5 November 1954.

• 1979: University of Bologna, School of Medicine Degree: Doctor of Medicine - Field of Study: Neurochemistry
• 1983: University of Bologna, School of Medicine Postdoctoral School of Neurology Degree: Specialist in Neurology - Field of Study: Neurophysiology

John Assad received his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York and his PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard University.

For his PhD, he investigated biophysical mechanisms of mechano-electric sensory transduction in vestibular hair cells.

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