Liberato Manna#
| Membership Number: | 7490 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.iit.it/it/people-details/-/people/liberato-manna |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4386-7985 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/liberato-manna-bab7b3196/ |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.it/citations?hl=it&user=hWWqp5MAAAAJ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - current Associate Director Italian Institute of Technology, Genova (Italy)
- 2022 - current Associate Editor – Nano Letters (American Chemical Society)
- 2018 - 2022 Associate Editor – Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry)
- 2016 - current Part-time Professor, University of Genova (Italy)
- 2010 - 2021 Part-time Professor, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, TU Delft (The Netherlands)
- 2009 - current Head of the Nanochemistry Department at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova (Italy)
- 2003 - 2009 Head of the Chemistry Division at the National Nanotechnology Lab in Lecce (Italy)
- 2003 - 2004 Visiting Scientist at the Center for Nanoscience, Munich (Germany)
- 1999 - 2003 Visiting student and then Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Fields of Scholarship
- Integration of nanomaterials in devices
- Development of composite nanomaterials by engineering of epitaxial interfaces
- Nanomaterials Synthesis
- Assembly of nanomaterials into ordered structures
- Modelling of the properties of nanomaterials6. Electrocatalysis
- Materials Chemistry
- Study of physical properties of colloidal nanocrystals
- Electrocatalysis
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Elected member of the Academia Europaea
- 2108 - 2025 Highly cited researcher (Clarivate Analytics), 8 consecutive years
- 2025 Elected member of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2025 Elected member of the Italian Academy of Engineering and Technology
- 2020 Ufficiale dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana
- 2019 Sacconi Medal in Inorganic Chemistry (Italian Chemical Society)
- 2013 American Chemical Society Early Career Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry
- 2011 Ranked #24 among the top 100 Chemists of the 2000-2010 decade by Thomson Reuters
- 2011 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Award (Royal Society of Chemistry)
- 2009 R&D 100 Award recipient for ‘Cost Competitive Solar Cells’
- 2007 “Campisano” Young Investigator Award in Materials Science (Italian National Institute of Condensed Matter Physics)
- 2002 Berkeley Lab Technology Transfer Award
- 2001 Semerano Award (Italian Chemical Society), best PhD thesis in Physical Chemistry in Italy
