Alberto Bianco

Dr. Alberto Bianco received his PhD in 1996 from the University of Padova. As a visiting scientist, he worked at the University of Lausanne, the University of Tübingen (as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow), the University of Padova and Kyoto University. He is currently Distinguished Research Director at the CNRS in Strasbourg. His research interests focus on the design of multifunctional carbon and 2D nanomaterials, and soft nanoparticles for therapy, diagnostics and imaging. He is also interested on their health impact, particularly on the immune system. He has published more than 390 articles (h-index: 105, > 60000 citations). In 2017 he has been elected Fellow of the European Academy of Science and in 2020 of the Academia Europaea, and in 2019 he has obtained the CNRS Silver Medal. Since 2011 he is Editor of the journal CARBON.