Manna Liberato

Liberato Manna received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2001 from the University of Bari (Italy) and worked at UC Berkeley (USA) as a Visiting Student and then at Lawrence Berkeley Lab (USA) as a postdoctoral fellow until 2003. He was then a scientist at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory in Lecce (Italy) and moved to the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) in 2009 as director of the Department of Nanochemistry. He has also been a part-time professor at TU Delft (The Netherlands) since 2010. He is also currently deputy director of IIT’s Materials and Nanotechnology programs. His research interests include the synthesis and assembly of colloidal nanocrystals, the study (including modeling) of structural, chemical and surface transformations in nanoscale materials, and their applications in energy, photonics and electronics. He currently teaches theoretical chemistry and electronic structure of solids at the University of Genoa.