Elisa Riedo - Curriculum Vitae#

Professor and Director of Faculty Development at the New York University (NYU)

Education

• B.S. Physics 1995, Summa cum Laude, University of Milano, Italy
  
• Ph.D., Physics 2000, University of Milano, Italy

Positions

• Sept 2018 - now Tenured Full Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, NYU - Tandon School of Engineering
  
• Sept 2021 - now Director of Faculty Development at NYU - Tandon School of Engineering
  
• Sept 2021 - now Professor of Physics NYU – College of Arts and Science
  
• Sept 2021 - now Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Affiliated) - Tandon School of Engineering
  
• Sept 2015 - 2018 Professor of Nanoscience and Founding Member of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), NYC
  
• Sept 2015 - 2018 Director of Surface Science Facility CUNY ASRC
  
• Sept 2015 - 2018 Tenured Full Professor, Physics, City College of New York (USA)
  
• 2015 Tenured Full Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Tech (USA)
  
• 2009 - 2015 Associate Professor (with tenure), School of Physics, Georgia Tech (USA)
  
• 2006 - 2015 Adjunct Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech
  
• 2003 - 2009 Assistant Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Tech (USA)
  
• 1999 - 2003 Post Doctoral Fellow, École Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
  
• 1998 - 1999 Ph. D. student at the, European Synchrotron Research Facility (ESRF), France
  
• Feb - Jun 1998 Ph. D. student, TASC – INFM labs, Trieste, Italy
  
• June 1998 Visiting Research Assistant, Forshungzentrum of Jülich, Germany
  
• 1996 - 1998 Ph. D. student, CoreCom (Politecnico of Milan and Pirelli), Italy

Riedo’s key contributions in the field of nanoscience include the discovery of the exotic viscoelastic properties of nano-confined water, the invention of thermochemical scanning probe lithography for applications in nanoelectronics and biomedical research, the development of novel atomic force microscopy methods to study the elastic properties of nanomaterials, and the first observation of the exceptional mechanical properties of diamene, single layer diamond, obtained from pressurizing graphene.