Nunzio Motta is a professor and principal research fellow at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, with over 30 years’ experience in materials science and scanning probe microscopy. He obtained his MS in physics from the Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Italy, in 1981 and his PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy, in 1986. Prof. Motta has published more than 160 papers and 4 book chapters, leading many international research projects to develop new
nanomaterials for solar cells, electronics, supercapacitors, and gas sensors. In Italy, he was the first scientist to get atomic resolution by a scanning tunneling microscope in 1991.
Francesca Iacopi is a materials scientist and nanotechnology expert with nearly 20 years’ experience in the semiconductor industry and academia. She is full professor of electronics engineering at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She obtained her MSc in physics from the Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Italy, in 1996 and her PhD in materials science and electrical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 2004. Prof. Iacopi is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and holds 8 granted patents. She has received a Gold Award for Graduate Students (Materials Research Society, Boston, USA, 2003), a Future Fellowship (Australian Research Council, 2012), and a Global Innovation Award (Tech Connect World, Washington DC, USA, 2014).
Camilla Coletti is a researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy, where she leads the 2D Materials Engineering group. Dr. Coletti obtained her MS in electrical
engineering from the Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy, in 2004 and her PhD in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA, in 2007. Her current research focuses on the synthesis of scalable 2D materials for optoelectronic applications and interface engineering of 2D heterostructures. She has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, has written 4 book chapters, and holds 2 international patents.
