Francesco Stellacci

Biography

Francesco Stellacci is a Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the Institute of Materials and in the Interfaculty Bioengineering Institute since 2010. He got his degree in Materials Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. In 1999, he moved to the University of Arizona as a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Chemistry. In 2002, he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he eventually raised to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure. He has held the title of Adjunct Professor at the Korean Institute of Science and Technology and at the Harbin Institute of Technology. Currently he is also the Director of the Integrative Food and Nutrition Center at EPFL. Stellacci was one of the founding editors of the RSC journal Nanoscale and is in the editorial board of the Wiley journals Small and Particle. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the Global Young Academy. His research interests are in supramolecular materials science, in nanoparticles and in nanomedicine. Specifically he is interested in solid-liquid interfaces when the solid is a complex supramolecular surface and in the morphology of the ligand shell in nanoparticles.