Valeria Nicolosi is the Professor of Nanomaterials and Advanced Microscopy in the School of Chemistry in Trinity College Dublin. She is a nanotechnologist who specializes in low-dimensional nano-structures and high-end electron microscopy.

Career

She received her BSc in Chemistry from the

University of Catania The University of Catania ( it, Università degli Studi di Catania) is a university located in Catania, Sicily. Founded in 1434, it is the oldest university in Sicily, the 13th oldest in Italy, and the 29th oldest university in the world. With a ...

in 2001 and a PhD in Physics in 2006 from Trinity College Dublin. In 2017, Trinity College Dublin selected her as a Professorial Fellow. Her research has been funded with over 12 million euros since 2012, and is currently associated with Ireland's Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research (AMBER) science foundation. In addition to being a principal investigator with AMBER, she is Trinity College Dublin's Chair of Nanomaterials and Advanced Microscopy. In 2019 she was admitted as a member of the

Royal Irish Academy The Royal Irish Academy (RIA; ga, Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann), based in Dublin, is an academic body that promotes study in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is Ireland's premier List of Irish learned societies, learned socie ...

. She has previously worked at the

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where she held a

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

/ EPSRC Fellowship, and was awarded a

European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...

starting grant to expand her work. Nicolosi’s research incorporates synthesis, exfoliation and characterization of 2D materials for various applications, particularly energy storage. She is particularly active in the characterization of materials using advanced electron microscopy techniques, such as aberration-corrected TEM, STEM, EELS and EDX. She has published almost 200 papers which have been cited 43,000 times, leading to a h-index of 69. Nicolosi is currently an Ambassador for the European Innovation Council for the years 2021–2027.

References

Italian nanotechnologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Catania alumni Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Italian women scientists 21st-century Italian scientists 21st-century women scientists Fellows of Trinity College Dublin Members of the Royal Irish Academy 21st-century Italian women {{Italy-scientist-stub