SPEAKER'S PROFILES
Paolo Milani
Paolo Milani is Full
Professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Milano.
He graduated in
Physics from the University of Pavia (Italy) in 1984 and he received his Docteur
es Sciences (PhD) in 1991 from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne (Switzerland).
He founded in 1992 the Molecular Beams and Nanocrystalline Materials Laboratory
at the University of Milano.
His research focuses
on cluster-assembled nanostructured materials and particularly on carbon-based
and transition metal oxides systems. He is also active in the field of
nanostructured materials for biotechnology and nanomedicine. He has published more
than 180 papers on refereed journals (h index=29), several review papers and a monograph
on supersonic cluster beam deposition for the synthesis of nanostructured thin films.
Milani is the
recipient of the U. Campisano Award from the Italian Institute for the
Physics of Matter in 2000 for his contributions to the field of the synthesis
and characterization of nanostructured materials. In 2006 he received the L.
Tartufari Prize awarded by the Lincei National Academy.
Currently, Milani
serves as Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials
and Interfaces of the University of Milano, Scientific Director of Fondazione
Filarete and he is a member of the scientific board of the Leonardo da Vinci
National Museum of Science and Technology, based in Milan.
He is also
Coordinator of the PhD School in Medical Nanotechnology supported by the
European School of Molecular Medicine and the University of Milano and he has served
as a nanotechnology expert consultant for the European Social and Economic Committee
of the European Union.
He is editor of the
Springer book series Carbon Materials Chemistry and Physics, regional
editor for Europe of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research and a member
of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
He holds ten patents
and he is co-founder of two start-up companies: Tethis spa active in the field
of nanostructured systems for chemical sensing and biomedical microdevices and WISE
srl for the production of stretchable electronics and smart prosthetics.
