Paolo Samori

Education

In 2000 he received his Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Professor Jürgen P Rabe).

Career

He obtained a Laurea (master’s degree) in Industrial Chemistry at University of Bologna in 1995. He was permanent research scientist at Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche of Bologna from 2001 til 2008, and Visiting Professor at ISIS from 2003 til 2008. He has published over 200 papers on applications of scanning probe microscopies beyond imaging, hierarchical self-assembly of hybrid architectures at surfaces, supramolecular electronics, and the fabrication of organicand graphene-based nanodevices.

He is using the supramolecular chemistry approach in order to generate ordered 1D, 2D and 3D architectures at surfaces and interfaces, with the ultimate goal of controlling an improving the properties of electronic devices.

He exploited supramolecular scaffolds based on H-bonding and metal-ligand interactions to control the patterning of functional groups in two-dimensions. He has fabricated the first dynamer operating at the solid-liquid interface which were monitored on the sub-molecular scale by means of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

At University of Strasbourg he showed that combining organic semiconductors with photochromic systems it is possible to fabricate optically switchable field-effect transistor as a first step towards multifunctional devices.

He is exploiting supramolecular methods to generate graphene based materials with tunable properties. His current research is focused on the architecture vs function relationship in supramolecular and graphene based materials for applications in (opto)electronics and materials science.

Advanced Materials (Wiley-VCH), 2006-now

Journal of Materials Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry ), 2008-now

Nanoscale (Royal Society of Chemistry ), 2009-now

Small (Wiley-VCH), 2012-now

ChemPhysChem (Wiley-VCH), 2011-now

ChemPlusChem (Wiley-VCH), 2011-now

Chemical Society Reviews (Royal Society of Chemistry ), 2013-now

Chemical Communications (Royal Society of Chemistry ), 2012-now.

Achievements

• Young scientist award - European Materials Research Society (1998) young scientist award - Materials Research Society (2000) International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Prize for Young Chemists 2001 the "Vincenzo Caglioti" award 2006 granted by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei the "Nicolò Copernico" award 2009 (Italy) for his discoveries in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology the award "Guy Ourisson" 2010 of the Cercle Gutenberg (France) junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (Institut Universitaire de France) 2010 the European Research Council Starting Grant 2010 Royal Society of Chemistry - Fellow (FRSC) 2011 the National Center for Scientific Research Silver Medal 2012. Elected fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) 2014 Elected member of the Academia Europaea (Macintosh Application Environment) 2014.

Membership

He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), member of the Academia Europaea (Macintosh Application Environment), and junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (Institut Universitaire de France).