Francesco Stellacci#
| Membership Number: | 5000 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://sunmil.epfl.ch |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4635-6080 |
| Twitter: | @frstella |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Director, Integrative Food and Nutrion Center, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2013 - present Full Professor, Bioengineering Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2010 - present Full Professor, Institute of Materials, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2010 - present Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST, Korea
- 2014 - 2018 Adjunct Professor, Chemistry Department, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
- 2018 - 2018 Visiting Professor, Department of Health Science and Technology, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
- 2010 - 2016 Director, Centro Europeo di Nanomedicina and Nanomedicine Group, Istituto Neurologico Besta, Milan, Italy
- 2006 - 2010 Associate Professor without Tenure (up to 2009) and with Tenure, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 2002 - 2006 Assistant Professor , Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 1999 - 2002 Post-Doc, Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Nanoparticles characterization
- Nanoscience
- Self-assembly
- Antivirals
- Solid-liquid interfaces
- Colloid science
- Nanoparticles in biology
- Nanomedicine
Honours and Awards
- 2004 MIT, Dept. of Mat. Sci. and Eng., Graduate Materials Council, “Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award”
- 2004 MIT, School of Engineering, “Finmeccanica Career Development Chair”
- 2004 3M, “Untenured Faculty Award”
- 2005 DuPont, “Young Professor Award”
- 2005 Technology Review, “Top 35 Innovators Under 35”
- 2005 3M, “Innovation Award”
- 2006 Hewlett Packard Foundation, “Fellow”
- 2007 US National Science Foundation (NSF), “CAREER award”
- 2007 MIT, School of Engineering, “Junior Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching”
- 2007 NASA, “Nanotech Briefs Nano 50(tm) Award Winners”
- 2008 MIT, School of Engineering, “Paul M. Cook Career Development Chair”
- 2008 Popular Science Magazine, “Brilliant Ten Award”
- 2011 Chinese Academy of Science, “China Nano, Pleanary Speaker Award”
- 2012 European Materials Research Society (E-MRS), “EU40 Award” (top Materials Scientist under 40, shared)
- 2013 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), “Fellow”
- 2014 Global Young Academy, “Fellow”
- 2016 Leenards Foundation Prize
- 2017 European Academy of Sciences, “Fellow”
- 2018 Northeastern Polytechnic University, Xian, China, "Consulting Professor" Award
- 2019 Italian Chemical Society "Prof. Medaglia" Prize (First Recipient, shared)
