Giuseppe Pezzotti
Giuseppe Pezzotti is a full professor (tenure) at the Ceramic Physics Laboratory of the Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan, since 2000. He graduated summa cum laude in mechanical engineering from Rome University “La Sapienza”, Italy, in 1984 and holds two doctoral degrees in engineering and in medical sciences, both obtained in Japan, the country where he has steadily lived for 25 years. From 2002 to 2012, Prof. Pezzotti served as the director of the Research Institute for Nanoscience at Kyoto Institute of Technology. From 2005 to 2011, he was an adjunct professor at the Department of Orthopaedic Research of Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA. Since 2009, he has held an invited professorship at the Department of Medical Engineering of Osaka University and since 2010 has been visiting professor at the Department of Molecular Cell Physiology of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. Prof. Pezzotti has published around 550 scientific papers and 10 book chapters and holds 8 patents, including a world patent regarding nanoscale stress microscopy in the scanning electron microscope. The spectroscopic methods and algorithms developed by Prof. Pezzotti have been so far transferred to more than 20 major industries around the world. Among other numerous awards and prizes, he was twice recipient of Official Gratitude Awards from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo. In 2010, he was chosen as one of the 80 most successful Expatriate Italians in the World by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy. He received the 2011 “150 years of Italian Science in the World” award on occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Italian Republic. In 2013, he became a member of the Academy of Science of Bologna Institute in appreciation of his advanced studies linking quantum mechanics to medical sciences.