Silvia Giordani

Prof. Silvia Giordani is Professor of Nanomaterials in the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University (Ireland).

Biography:

Prof. Silvia Giordani is Professor of Nanomaterials in the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University (Ireland). She received the prestigious President of Ireland Young Researcher Award in 2007 and was a Research Assistant Professor at TCD from 2007 to 2013. In September 2013 she founded the new “Nano Carbon Materials” research laboratory at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) and in December 2016 she was appointed Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Turin, Italy. She served as Head of the School of Chemical Sciences at DCU from 2020 to 2023.

Her main research interests are in the design, synthesis and characterisation of a wide range of nanomaterials for applications in smart and responsive bio-related nanotechnologies. She will be working on ‘Functional nanomaterials (carbon nano-onions) for health, energy and the environment‘ at the Institute Charles Gerhardt Montpellier.