Professional Activities & Awards

 
Professional Activities
 
Research Supervision
 
Postdoctoral Researchers: Elisabetta Annoni (2003-2004), Gang Lu (2004-2006), Zhemin Wang (2005-present), Shinji Ando (2006-2008), Paul Byrne (2006-2008), Shaofeng Lu (2006-2007), Hyun Sung Kim (2007-present), Hui Huang (2008-present), Sunho Jeong (2008-2009), Shiming Wang (2009-2011), Seok Min Yoon (2010-present), Pierre-Luc T. Boudreault (2011-2012), Xugang Guo (2010-current), Jeremy Smith (2011-present), Kang-Jun Baen (2012), Yu Xinge (2012-present), Hui Lin (2012-2013), Atsuro Takai (2012-present), Tobias Harshneck (2012-2013), Ferdinand Melkonyan (2013-present).
 
Ph.D. Students: Melissa Mushrush (1999-2003), Goeffrey R. Hutchison (2000-2004), Myung-Han Yoon (2001-2006), Sharon Koh (2003-2007), Joseph Letizia (2004-present), David Frattarelli (2004-2008), Sara DiBenedetto (2005-2009), Hyuk-Jin Choi (2005-2006), Hakan Usta (2005-2008), Choongik Kim (2006-2011), Young-Geun Ha (2007-2012), Jangdae Youn (2007-2012), Myung-Gil Kim (2007-2013), Jonathan Hennek (2009-2013), Brian Eckstein (2011-present), Katie Stallings (2011-present).
 
Masters Students and Visiting Scientists: Silvia Terenghi (1995), Igor Maino (1995), Maurizio Iannone (1996), Giovanni Conca (1996), Elena Scaltritti (1997), Graziano Archetti (2001). Michael A. Oar (2003), Sara DiBenedetto (2004), Jonathan Rivnay (2005), Ricio Lopez (2005), Michele Schiavo (2006), Roberto Macchi (2007), Selvaggia Landi (2007), Fabio Silvestri (2008), Antonio Carella (2008-2009), Rocio Ponce Ortiz (2008-2012), Diego Bagnis (2009), Alessandro Lunzo (2009), Gianluca Generali (2010), Alessandro Sanguineti (2010). Sara Tortorella (2011), Riccardo Turrisi (2012-current), Maria Paola Bracciale (2013).
 
International Journals Reviewed for
 
International Journals Reviewed for: Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Applied Physics Letters, Chemical Communications, Chemistry of Materials, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Journal of Chemical Physics, Langmiur, Macromolecules, Materials Science & Engineering B, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, Organometallics, Organic Electronics, Synthetic Communications, Targets in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Letters, Thin Solid Films, Macromolecules.
 
Awards and Services
 
2014     Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
2014     SPIE Meeting, Organic Photovoltaics XV Symposium Organizer
2014     International Advisory Board Member of the International Fall School on Organic Electronics, Moscow, Russia
2013     Editorial Advisory Board of AIMS Materials Science
2013     Associate Editor of Indian Journal of Materials Science
2013     International Advisory Board Member of the Symposium FG “Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion: Silicon and Beyond” of the 6th Forum on New Materials, Montecatini Terme, Italy
2013     Materials Research Society Fellow
2013     Co-organizer of the Symposium "Spin dynamics on organic semiconductor materials " Material Research Society Meeting, San Francisco, USA
2012     American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
2012     Funding Editor of the journal "Organic Photonics and Photovoltaics"
2012     Industrial Advisory Board, International conference on the Science and technology of Synthetic Metals
2012     Professor of Nanotechnology and Sustainable Energies, Master School, University of Palermo
2012     Co-organizer of the Symposium " Single-Crystalline Organic and Polymer Semiconductors: Fundamentals and Devices " Material Research Society Meeting, Boston, USA
2012     Co-organizer of the “International Symposium on Organic Transistors and Functional Interfaces -FET 2012”, Princeton, USA
2012     Co-organizer of the Workshop " Organic Electronics and Photonics. From Single Crystals to Amorphous Films " Okinawa, Japan
2011     Associate Editor of International Journal of Analytical Chemistry
2011     Co-organizer of the Symposium " Charge Generation/Transport in Organic Semiconductor Materials" Material Research Society Meeting, Boston, USA
2011     R&D FlexTech Award
2011     Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Applied Polymer Science
2011     Selected Among "TOP 100 MATERIALS SCIENTISTS OF THE PAST DECADE (2000-2010)", Thomson Reuters
2011     U.S. National Academies, invited for the first Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine program.
2010     Co-organizer of “International Symposium on Organic Transistors and Functional Interfaces -FET 2010”, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
2010     IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2010 Award for the Development of Organic Materials
2010     Kavli National Science Foundation Fellow
2010     US National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Member
2009     Invited Review Panelist for Binational Science Foundation
2009     Invited Nature Reader Panelist
2009     Bepi Colombo Prize Finalist
2009     SCI (Italian Chemical Society) Research Award
2008     Invited Review Panelist for Austrian Science Foundation (FWF)
2008     Invited Review Panelist for NSF
2008     Invited Review Panelist for the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong
2008     Invited Review Panelist for the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
2007     Invited Review Panelist for ACS-PRF fund
2007     Invited Review Panelist for INSTM
2007     Co-organizer of Symposium on “Polymeric and Molecular Materials for Opto-Electronics (233rd ACS National Meeting, PMSE Division), Chicago (USA)
2006     Invited Review Panelist for Austrian Science Foundation (FWF)
2006     Invited Review Panelist for NSF International Research Fellowship Program
2005     Invited Review Panelist for MIUR Research Strategic Programs
2003     INSTM Participation award
2000     Member of the examination committee of Supramolecular Chemistry and Molecular Materials University of Milano-Bicocca
2000     Member of the examination committee of Physical Characterization Methods in Organic Chemistry University of Milano-Bicocca
1996     Summer School A. Corbella participation grant
1986     Farchemia award to the best student in industrial chemistry
 

Plenary, Keynote, and Invited Lectures
 

188  2015 IUPAC-2015 48th General Assembly, Busan, Korea (Programmed August 2015)

187  2015 Fpi12 Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA (Programmed July 2015)

186. 2015 European Polymer Congress 2015, Dresden, Germany (Programmed June 2015)

185. 2015 LOPE-C Technical Conference, Munich, Germany (Programmed May 2015)

184. 2014 Fall MRS Meeting, Boston, MA USA (Programmed December 2014)

184. 2014 Materials Today Asia 2014 Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong(Programmed December 2014)

183. 2014 XII International Conference on Nanostructured Materials (NANO 2014), Moscow, Russia

182. 2014 Conjugated Polymer Workshop, Tokyo ,Japan

181. 2014 The 6th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, Kyoto ,Japan

180. 2014 Workshop on Organic Transistors and Related Ares, Osaka University, Japan

179. 2014 SID Organic Electronics UK 2014 Workshop, London, UK

178. 2014 Workshop New Opportunities in Oxides and Chalcogenides, Evanston, USA

177. 2014 International Conference on Electroluminescence and Organic Optoelectronics, Cologne, Germany

176. 2014 Organic Photovoltaics, SPIE Optics + Photonics Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA

175. 2014 Gordon Research Conference on Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, Italy

174. 2014International Conference of Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals, Turku, Finland

173. 2014 Symposium FG "Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion: Silicon and Beyond", Montecatini, Italy

172. 2014 Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), Denver, CO, USA

171. 2014 Charge Transport in Organic Materials, Bremen, Germany

170. 2014 Symposium of Conjugated Polymers for Optoelectronics and Electronics and Biosensors, Dallas, TX (USA)

169. 2014 Conference on Organic Devices: The Future Ahead. Mumbai, India

168. 2014 Department of Materials Science, University of Texas-Austin, USA

167. 2013 International Workshop on Organic Semiconductors, Tokyo, Japan

166. 2013 20th International Display Workshop, Sapporo, Japan (Programmed December)

165. 2013 Fall MRS Meeting, Boston, MA USA (Programmed December)

164. 2013 International Workshop on Flexible & Printable Electronics, Chonju, Jeollabuk-do, Korea

163. 2013 Nanofabrication Technologies for Scaled Roll-to-Roll and Print Manufacturing, Barcelona, Spain

162. 2013 University of Rome-Sapienza, Department of Chemical Engineering, Rome, Italy

161. 2013 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering

160. 2013 IMID Business Forum, Ilsan, Korea

159. 2013 Italy-US Research in Nanotechnology: Toward Sustainable Energy, New York, USA

158. 2013 European Conference of Molecular Electronics (ECME 2013), London, UK

157. 2013 Organic Field-Effect Transistors XII Symposium, SPIE Optics + Photonics Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA

156. 2013 University of Santiago, Department of Chemistry, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

155. 2013 MURI Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA

154. 2013 Symposium on Materials and Processes for Flexible Devices and Electronics, U. Mass. Amherst, USA

153. 2013 2nd Saudi International Petrochemical Technology Conference, Saudi Arabia

152. 2013 Photovoltaic Technical Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France

151. 2013 Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaic Conference, Sevilla, Spain

150. 2013 7th Solvay-COPE Symposium, Bordeaux, France

149. 2013 EMRS Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France

148. 2013 Workshop &  Spring School "NextGen Nano PV, Cargese, Corsica, France

147. 2013 Charge transport in organic materials, Bremen, Germany

146. 2013 COMPOSIT Workshop, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur India

145. 2013 Israeli Chemical Society Meeting, Haifa, Israel

144. 2013 Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Organic Chemistry, Rehovot, Israel

143. 2013 Flextech Printed Electronics and Photovoltaic, Phoenix, CA USA

142. 2012 6th Edition “ElecMol12”, Granoble, France

141. 2012 Giornata Sintesi, Italian Chemical Society, Milan, Italy

140. 2012 59th Annual Symposium of the American Vacuum Society, Tampa, FL USA

139. 2012 OTFT2012 Meeting, Princeton, USA

138. 2012 International Symposium on Organic Electronics (ISOE2012), Okinawa, Japan

137. 2012 European Optical Society Meeting, Aberdeen, UK

136. 2012 3rdConference on Organic Photovoltaics, Würzburg, Germany

135. 2012 International Conference on Flexible and Printed Electronics (ICFPF), Tokyo, Japan

134. 2012 New and Old Polymers for Sustainable Chemistry, International School, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

133. 2012 The Polymer Science of Everyday Things Symposium, 243rd ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, USA

132. 2012 Organic Field-Effect Transistors XI Symposium, SPIE Optics + Photonics Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA

131. 2012 XXI International Materials Research Congress, Cancun, Mexico

130. 2012 Organic Photovoltaics XIII Symposium, SPIE Optics + Photonics Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA

129. 2012 The 19th International Workshop on Active matrix Flat Panel Displays and Devices, Kyoto, Japan

128. 2012 Surfaces, Interfaces and Functionalization Processes in Organic Compounds Workshop, Parma, Italy

127. 2012 Pre-Seminar Tuition, LOPE-C Technical Conference, Munich, Germany

126. 2012 LOPE-C Technical Conference, Munich, Germany

125. 2012 Great Lake Chapter of the Chinese American Chemical Society Conference, Evanston, USA

124. 2012 6th Solvay-COPE Symposium, Pittsburgh, US

123. 2012 EMRS Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France

122. 2012 Workshop on Polymers for Optics and Electronics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland USA

121. 2012 Spring MRS Meeting, San Francisco, CA USA

120. 2012 International Symposium on Electronic/Optic Functional Molecules, ECUST, Shanghai, China

119. 2012 Master School on Alternative Energies, University of Palermo, Italy

118. 2011 INRS Symposium on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Varennes (QC), Canada

117. 2011 Fall MRS Meeting, Boston, MA USA

116. 2011 International Conference on Advanced Electromaterials, Jeju Island, South Korea

115. 2011 International Workshop on Flexible & Printable Electronics, Jeollabuk-do, Korea

113. 2011 IDMC (International Display Manufacturing Conference) and Asia Display, Ilsan, Korea

112. 2011 Symposium on Macromolecules, The Society of Polymer Science Japan, Okayama, Japan

111. 2011 Workshop on organic Transistors and Related Ares, ISIR, Osaka University, Japan

110. 2011 Department of Chemistry, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

109. 2011 Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

108. 2011 15th International Symposium on the Physics of Semiconductors and Applications, Jeju, South Korea

107. 2011 International Conference of Organic Electronics, Rome, Italy

106. 2011 International Conference of Metallic Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego, USA

105. 2011 Spring MRS Meeting, San Francisco, CA USA

104. 2011 Department of Chemistry, Southern Illinois University

103. 2011 Palo Alto Research Center Forum Seminar, Palo Alto, CA USA

102. 2010 Dept. of Computer Science & Electronics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan

101. 2010 9th International Conference on Nano-Molecular Electronics, Kobe, Japan

100. 2010 Flextech Printed Electronics and Photovoltaic, Santa Clara, CA USA

99.   2010 Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore

98.   2010 Fall MRS Meeting, Boston, MA USA

97.   2010 Summer School in Materials Science, Bressanone, Italy

96.   2010 Department of Materials Science, UCSB, Santa Barbara, USA
95.   2010 Center for the Advancement of Printed Electronics Workshop, Western Michigan University, USA

94.   2010 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Imaging Science, Irvine, USA

93.   2010 IDMC (International Display Manufacturing Conference) and Asia Display, Ilsan, Korea

92.   2010 Polydays 2010 Conference, Berlin, Germany

91.   2010, International Workshop on Flexible & Printable Electronics, Jeollabuk-do, Korea

90.   2010 National Academy of Science, 13th Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, Irvine, USA

89.   2010 IUPAC World Polymer Congress, Glasgow, Scotland

88.   2010 ACS-MRS-IEEE Organic Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Workshop, San Francisco, USA

87.   2010 INVO Meeting, Chicago, IL USA

86.   2010 Workshop on Excitonic Photovoltaic Materials and Devices, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA

85.   2010 93rd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Toronto, Canada

84.   2010 9th International Symposium on Functional π-Electron Systems, Atlanta, USA

83.   2010 4th Solvay-COPE Symposium, Leuven, Belgium

82.   2010 International Symposium on Organic Transistors and Functional Interfaces-FET 2010, Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

81.   2010 SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, Belgium

80.   2010 Spring MRS Meeting, San Francisco, CA USA

79.   2010 Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Engineering Physics Department, Montreal, Canada

78    2010 International Symposium on Transparent Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors, Suzukake-dai Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

77.   2009 Conference on Organic Photovoltaic Technologies, Sezione Umbria SCI, Perugia, Italy

76.   2009 Fall MRS Meeting, Boston, MA, USA

75.   2009 Print 09 Conference, Chicago, IL, USA

74.   2009 Faculté Des Sciences et Degénie, Université Laval, Bureau, Canada

73.   2009 University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Dep. Polymer Science

72.   2009 IDMC (International Display Manufacturing Conference) and Asia Display, Ilsan, Korea

71.   2009 AVS Meeting, San Jose, CA, USA

70.   2009 National Academy of Science, 12th Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, Kunming, China

69.   2009 Nanobusiness Conference, Chicago, IL, USA

68.   2009 NU-JNCASR Conference on Advanced Materials Research, Bangalore, India

67.   2009 Security and Defense SPIE Conference, Berlin, Germany

66.   2009 Italian Chemical Society National Meeting, Sorrento, Italy

65.   2009 LAPO-E Semiconductor Conference, Frankfurt, Germany

64.   2009 International Conference on Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers and Organic Nanostructures, Beijin, China

63.   2009 University of Greningen, Department of Chemistry, Greningen, The Netherlands

62.   2009 Holst Centre / TNO. Eindhoven, The Netherlands

61.   2009 “Master en Quimica Avanzada” Lectures, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

60.   2009 University of Malaga, Department of Chemistry, Malaga, Spain

59.   2009 STMicroelectronics Labs, Catania, Italy

58.   2009 Scuola Superiore di Catania, Catania, Italy

57.   2009 Konarka Technologies, Lowell, MA USA

56.   2009 International Forum of Printed Active Displays, Soul, South Korea

55.   2009 Samsung Labs, Advanced Materials Division, South Korea

54.   2008 Organic Semiconductor Conference, Frankfurt, Germany

53.   2008 Fall MRS Meeting, Boston, MA USA

52.   2008 International Symposium on Organic Transistors and Functional Interfaces, Sendai, Japan

51.   2008 IDMC (International Display Manufacturing Conference) and Asia Display, Ilsan, Korea

50.   2008 SPIE Meeting, San Diego, CA USA

49.   2008 Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Chemistry, Rehovot, Israel

48.   2008 Nanyang Technological University, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Singapore
47.   2008 ENEA-CNR Center, Naples

46.   2008 Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore

45.   2008 University of Kentucky, Department of Chemistry, KT, USA

44.   2008 E-MRS Meeting, Strasbourg, France
43.   2008 MRS Meeting, San Francisco, CA USA
42.   2008 SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France

41.   2008 Flexible Electronics and Display, Phoenix, AZ USA

40.   2007 University of Pisa, Department of Chemistry, Italy

39.   2007 University College London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UK

38.   2007 Imperial College, Department of Physics, UK

37.   2007 University of Cambridge, School of Physical Sciences, UK
36.   2007 University of Naples Federico II, Department of Chemistry, Naples, Italy
35.   2007 3rd Global Plastic Electronics Conference & Showcase, Frankfurt, Germany
34.   2007 4th European Conference on Organic Electronics and Related Phenomana, Varenna, Italy
33.   2007 Organic RFID Workshop, Chicago, USA
32.   2007 Summer School of Materials Science, Bressanone, Italy
31.   2007 Organic Electronic Conference-07, Frankfurt, Germany
30.   2007 Italian Chemical Society-Organic Division Meeting, Cosenza, Italy
29.   2007 University of Parma, Department of Chemistry, Parma, Italy
28.   2007 Politecnico di Milano, Department of Chemical Sciences, Milano, Italy
27.   2007 SPIE Meeting-Organic Electronics, San Diego, CA USA
26.   2007 BASF-JKS Research Solution Polymers, Ludwigshafen, Germany
25.   2007 Spring MRS Meeting, San Francisco, CA USA
24.   2007 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL USA
23.   2006 ICPOP Symposium on Photonic Materials and Devices, Lyon, France
22.   2006 USMS Workshop on Large-Area, Flexible Electronics, Gaithersburg, USA
21.   2006 CNR ISOC Bologna, Bologna, Italy
20.   2006 KIChE International Symposium on Display Materials and Processes, Daegu, South Korea
19.   2006 Seoul National University, Department of Materials Science, Seoul, South Korea
18.   2006 Pohang University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang, South Korea
17.   2006 The Catholic University of Korea, Department of Chemistry, Seoul, South Korea
16.   2006 Yeungnam University, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Daedong, South Korea
15.   2006 LG Chem Labs, Advanced Materials Division, Daedong, South Korea
14.   2006 CLEO Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization, Long Beach, USA
13.   2006 Organic Electronic Conference-06, Frankfurt, Germany
12.   2006 Organic RFID Workshop, San Diego, USA
11.   2006 Fall MRS Meeting, Boston, MA USA
10.   2006 Advanced Heterostructures Workshop, Kohala Coast, Big Island of Hawai, USA
9.     2005 University of Milan, Department of Chemistry, Milan, Italy
8.     2005 ACS/IEEE CPMT/MRS Organic Microelectronics Workshop, Newport, CT USA
7.     2005 NASA Molecular Conductor Workshop, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN USA
6.     2005 5th INSTM Meeting, Cagliari, Italy
5      2005 Organic RFID Workshop, San Diego, CA USA
4.     2005 University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Materials Science, Milan, Italy
3.     2004 IMAPS-Printing Organic and Molecular Electronic Technologies Meeting, Annapolis, MD USA
2.     2003 48th SPIE Meeting (Organic Field Effect Transistors II), San Diego, CA USA
1.     2003 IMAPS-Printing an Intelligent Future Meeting, Boston, MA USA