Liberato Manna - Curriculum Vitae#

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Bari, Italy, 2001
  
• M.S. in Chemistry, University of Bari, Italy, 1996

• 2024 - current Associate Director for Blue-Sky Research, IIT, 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
  
• 2015 - 2023 Associate Director for Materials and Nanotechnologies, IIT, Genova, Italy
  
• 2010 - 2021 Part-time Professor of Quantum Nanoscience, TU Delft, The Netherlands
  
• 2009 - current Head of the Nanochemistry Department at IIT, Genova, Italy
  
• 2003 - 2009 Head of the Chemistry Division, National Nanotechnology Lab, Lecce, Italy
  
• 2003 - 2004 Visiting Scientist at the Center for Nanoscience, Munich, Germany
  
• 2001 - 2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  
• 1999 - 2000 Visiting student, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  

• 250 keynote, plenary/invited talks

• 500 publications, 80,000 citations, h-index 130 ‬(Google Scholar, April 2026).‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
  
• Co-inventor of more than 40 patents

• Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS2 Advanced) (awarded in March 2025)
  
• ERC Starting grant (NANO-ARCH, contract n. 240111, 2009 - 2013)
  
• ERC Consolidator grant (TRANS-NANO, contract. n. 614897, 2014 - 2019)
  
• ERC Advanced grant (NEHA, contract n. 101095974, 2023 - 2028)
  
• ERC Proof of Concept grant (HyCat, contract n. 899412)

• Since 2025 Physical Chemistry of Confined Structures (Univ. of Genoa)
  
• 2016 - 2025 Theoretical Chemistry (Univ. of Genoa)
  
• Since 2015 Electronic Structure of Solids (Univ. of Genoa, also given online to various institutions in Italy and worldwide)
  
• 2014 - 2015 Fundamentals of Crystallography (Univ. of Genoa)
  
• 2006 Physical Chemistry of interfaces (Univ. of Lecce)
  
• 2004 Polymer Science (Univ. of Lecce)

• 2024 Co-founder of Antares Electrolysis

• 2026 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)
  
• 2017 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
  
• 2013 American Chemical Society Early Career Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry
  
• 2011 Ranked #24 among the top 100 Chemists of the 2000-2010 decade (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
  
• 2002 Berkeley Lab Technology Transfer Award