Assistant Professor
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Research Interests
Polymer and nanocomposite functional materials. Soft/stretchable conductive materials. Stimuli-responsive materials and interfaces. Applications in organic (bio)electronics, soft robotics and biomedicine.
Main areas:
- Polymer nanosheets, conformable/skin-contact organic (bio)electronics, ink-jet printing and laser-induced synthesis of functional materials;
- Electro Active Polymers and other stimuli-responsive polymeric materials for soft actuators and sensors;
- Micro/nanostructured and bioinspired functional surfaces with tunable properties, biointerfaces.
Dr. Greco has been also involved in several industry-funded projects, about materials and devices for energy harvesting and bioelectronics.
He is the author of around 50 ISI papers, 3 book chapters, and of several communications to international conferences. He is coinventor of 7 international patents/patents applications. He serves as reviewer for several international journals in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanotechnology, Microrobotics.
Education
- 2009 – PhD in Chemical Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy
- 2004 – M.Sc. in Materials Science, University of Pisa, Italy
Academic Experience
- Aug 2017 – today Assistant Professor at TUGraz
- Jan 2018, Jan 2020 – Visiting Lecturer Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
- 2018 – today Habilitation as Associate Professor (Italian National Habilitation, ASN) in: Experimental Physics of Matter, (02-B1), Chemical Foundations of Technologies (03-B2), Bioengineering (09-G2)
- Jul 2017 – Jul 2019 Visiting Scientist/Researcher (external PI) Center for Micro-BioRobotics – Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy (CMBR-IIT)
- Sep 2013 – Jul 2017 Researcher (Team Leader) CMBR-IIT, Italy
- Jan 2016 -Sep 2017 Associate Professor Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (Top Global University Program, Unit for Energy and Nanomaterials)
- Sep 2009 – Sep 2013 Postdoc Junior/Senior CMBR-IIT, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
- May – Sep 2009 Postdoc Center of Research in MicroEngineering of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Current Teaching
- Soft Matter Physics (PHT.303UF Course Description, TUGraz Online)
- Laboratory Course Semiconductor Processing and Nanotechnology (MAS.301UF Course Description, TUGraz Online)
- Research Laboratory Semiconductor Devices (PHT.311UF Course Description, TUGrazOnline)
- Research Laboratory Applied Materials Physics (PHT.707UF Course Description, TUGrazOnline)
Extra Activities
- Guest Associate Editor Frontiers in Materials – Research Topic
- Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Member of the Materials Research Society (MRS)
- Member of EuroEAP Society
Latest News
Different Roles of Surface Chemistry and Roughness of Laser-Induced Graphene: Implications for Tunable Wettability
“Different Roles of Surface Chemistry and Roughness of Laser-Induced Graphene: Implications for Tunable Wettability” Dallinger, Alexander, Felix Steinwender, Matthias Gritzner, ...
Emerging technologies in wearable sensors
” Emerging technologies in wearable sensors “ Greco, Francesco, Amay J. Bandodkar, and Arianna Menciassi. “Emerging Technologies in Wearable Sensors.” ...
Paper on sweat analysis featured in a SciLight by AIP
AIP SciLight The latest publication on “Sweat analysis with a wearable sensing platform based on laser-induced graphene” was featured in ...
Sweat analysis with a wearable sensing platform based on laser-induced graphene
“Sweat analysis with a wearable sensing platform based on laser-induced graphene” Vivaldi, F., A. Dallinger, N. Poma, A. Bonini, D ...
Published chapter in Nanoporous Carbons for Soft and Flexible Energy Devices
LAMPSe was invited to contribute a chapter to the book “Nanoporous Carbons for Soft and Flexible Energy Devices“.The chapter with ...
Third place at TU Graz SciPix audience vote
LAMPSe is proud to anounce that Francesco Greco and Matthias Gritzner won the third price in the audience vote of ...