Vincenzo Palermo

Vincenzo Palermo is a research director of the CNR Institute for Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (ISOF) in Bologna, Italy, and associated professor of Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). He uses nanotechnology and supramolecular chemistry to create new materials for electronics, aerospace and biomedical applications. He published >220 scientific articles on international journals in chemistry, nanotechnology and materials science (>13 000 citations, h-index 57), collaborating with key industrial partners in Europe (Airbus, FCA, Leonardo, BASF, Nokia, STMicroelectronics etc.). He coordinated several EU projects in the past, including being vice-director and member of the executive board of the Graphene Flagship, one of the largest research projects ever launched in Europe. He has been awarded the Lecturer Award for Excellence of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), the Research Award of the Italian Society of Chemistry (SCI) and the Science dissemination awards of the Italian Book Association. He writes as a columnist for the science magazine SAPERE and has published two books on the life and science of Albert Einstein (Hoepli, Milano, 2015) and of Isaac Newton (Hoepli, Milano, 2016).