Information
Membership Number: FCA3114
Membership Type: Fellow
Division: Natural Sciences
Corresponding Email: samori@unistra.fr
Homepage(s): https://nanochemistry.u-strasbg.fr/index.php/people/prof-paolo-samori
Present and Previous Positions
01/2024 – now
Deputy Director / Directeur adjoint
Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S), Université de Strasbourg & CNRS (UMR 7006), France
09/2015 – now
Distinguished Professor (PRCE) Class 2 (PRCE-2)
Senior member of Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S)
Director of the Nanochemistry Laboratory
Université de Strasbourg & CNRS (UMR 7006), France
09/2012 – 08/2015
Distinguished Professor (PRCE) Class 1 (PRCE-1)
Senior member of Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S)
Director of the Nanochemistry Laboratory
Université de Strasbourg & CNRS (UMR 7006), France
01/2012 – 12/2023
Director / Directeur
Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S), Université de Strasbourg & CNRS (UMR 7006), France
09/2010 – 12/2011
Deputy Director / Directeur adjoint
Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S), Université de Strasbourg & CNRS (UMR 7006), France
07/2010 – 09/2012
Full Professor (PR1)
Senior member of Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S)
Director of the Nanochemistry Laboratory
Université de Strasbourg & CNRS (UMR 7006), France
10/2008 – 06/2010
Full Professor (PR1)
Junior member of Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S)
Director of the Nanochemistry Laboratory
Université de Strasbourg & CNRS (UMR 7006), France
04/2003 – 09/2008
Visiting Professor
Junior member of Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S)
Director of the Nanochemistry Laboratory
Université de Strasbourg & CNRS (UMR 7006), France
In particular as:
Full Professor (PR1) Associé – Full time, 12/2006 – 09/2008
Associate Professor (PR2) Invité – Part time, 01/2006 – 11/2006
Maître de Conférences Invité – Part time, 09/2003 – 12/2005
12/2001 – 09/2008
Researcher (permanent scientist)
Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Bologna, Italy
(On leave, 12/2006 – 09/2008)
01/2000 – 12/2001
Post-Doc
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Department of Physics (group Prof. J.P. Rabe)
Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests
Nanoscience and Materials Science
Professor Paolo Samorì’s work has opened new chemical frontiers at the nanoscale exploiting the combination of sophisticated nanotools (for fabrication and characterization) and principles of supramolecular chemistry to assemble structurally controlled functional nanomaterials and nanodevices capable of exhibiting a combination of electronic, optical, and sensing capabilities. His contributions have led to the foundation of the transition from supra-molecules to supra-functions and to the development of new multifunctional materials and devices for two-dimensional (2D) and organic-based optoelectronics, sensing, and energy applications.
Prof. Samorì is a recognized leader in the interdisciplinary field at the crossroad between nanosciences, supramolecular sciences, and materials sciences. By taking full advantage of both the use of supramolecular systems as electroactive components and the application of bottom-up and top-down approaches to nanomaterials, he showed his remarkable capacity to open new chemical frontiers in the area of organic, graphene, and hybrid-based electronics, and more generally in the realm of nanostructured multifunctional materials. The originality of his approach relies on the combination of sophisticated state-of-the-art nanotools (for fabrication and characterization) and principles of supramolecular chemistry to develop structurally controlled functional nanomaterials and nanodevices exhibiting a combination of electronic, optical, and sensing capabilities. In his research endeavor, Prof. Samorì is constantly addressing technologically relevant questions with perspectives of applications in everyday life, and ultimately addressing societal challenges and contributing to the well-being of citizens, towards the advent of a true knowledge-based society.
Honors, Awards and Other Membership
Membership to Learned Societies
2024 Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (ACATECH)
2023 Elected Member of the Académie des Technologies (National Academy of Technologies of France – NATF)
2022 Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
2021 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS)
2019 Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts (KVAB)
2014 Elected Member of the Academia Europaea
2014 Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC)
2021 Socio corrispondente, Sezione di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali, Accademia Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti di Modena
2011 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
Awards / Honours
2025 Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), term 2025–2030 (France)
2024 "Prof. Luigi Tartufari" Award – Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy)
2024 Mid-Career Researcher Award – IUMRS-ICEM
2024 Frontiers of EOC Lectureship, Nankai University, 24 May 2024
2024 Molecular Science Frontiers Lecture Professorship, Institute of Chemistry – Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China), 23 May 2024
2023 Master Distinguished Lecture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 24 October 2023
2022 Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana
2022 Prix André Collet, Groupe de Chimie Supramoléculaire (Société Chimique de France)
2022 Distinguished Fellow of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI)
2020 Royal Society of Chemistry – Société Chimique de France Lectureship in Chemical Sciences
2020 Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), term 2020–2025 (France)
2020 Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies (USIAS), University of Strasbourg
2019 "Les Étoiles de l’Europe" Award – French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation
2019 Molecular Science Forum Lecture Professorship, Institute of Chemistry – Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 9 September 2019
2019 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant
2018 Grand Prix Pierre Süe (Société Chimique de France)
2018 Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science (EURASC)
2018 Surfaces and Interfaces Award (Royal Society of Chemistry)
2018 Advisory Professorship – Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China
2018 Advanced Materials Hall of Fame
2017 Grignard Wittig Lecture (German Chemical Society)
2017 Catalan-Sabatier Award (Spanish Chemical Society)
2017 Inaugural Class of Hall of Fame, Advanced Materials
2017 Honorary Member of the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2012 CNRS – Silver Medal
2010 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
2010 Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), term 2010–2015 (France)
2010 Prix “Guy Ourisson” du Cercle Gutenberg, Alsace (France)
2010 Prize of Scientific Excellence – Prime d'excellence scientifique – PES, awarded by the French Department of Research, period 2010–2015 (France)
2009 "Nicolò Copernico" Award for Experimental Physics of Nanotechnology (Italy)
2006 "Vincenzo Caglioti" Award – Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy)
2002 Georg-Manecke Award – Berlin-Brandenburgische Verband für Polymerforschung
2001 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists
2001 Best Poster Presentation, 5° Congresso Nazionale di Chimica Supramolecolare, Frascati (Roma), Italy
2000 Finalist, Semerano Award – Division of Physical Chemistry, Italian Chemical Society
2000 Graduate Student Award, MRS’00 Spring Meeting
1998 Graduate Student Award, E-MRS’98 Spring Meeting
1997 Marie Curie Fellowship (2 years individual fellowship)
Other Professional Appointments
01/2011 – now
Member of the Advisory Board of the Joint Research Network on Advanced Materials and Systems “JONAS” (BASF, UNISTRA, University of Freiburg, ETH Zurich)
01/2011 – 12/2020
Member of the Steering Committee of the LabEx “Chemistry of Complex Systems”, UNISTRA, France
2017
Honorary Member, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
01/2017 – 08/2023
Deputy Director of the LabEx “Chemistry of Complex Systems”, UNISTRA, France
01/2017 – now
Member of the Steering Committee of the Foundation J.-M. Lehn, UNISTRA, France
01/2019 – 06/2023
Scientific Advisory Board Member of the German Cluster of Excellence “Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS)”, University of Freiburg, Germany
01/2020 – now
Member of External Advisory Board of the Australian Carbon Materials Centre, Sydney
01/2021 – now
Officer, Materials Science Division, European Academy of Sciences
01/2020 – now
UNESCO Chair holder – Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux: Énergie, Environnement, Santé, Strasbourg
01/2021 – 08/2023
Deputy Director, Institut thématiques interdisciplinaires (ITI) – Chimie des systèmes complexes (SysChem), Strasbourg
03/2023 – now
Deputy Director, Foundation Jean-Marie Lehn, Strasbourg
09/2023 – now
Director, Institut thématiques interdisciplinaires (ITI) – Chimie des systèmes complexes (SysChem), Strasbourg
Editorial Activity
2023 – now Associate Editor, ACS Nano (ACS, i.f. 18.1)
2018 – 2022 Associate Editor, Nanoscale (RSC, i.f. 8.3)
2019 – 2022 Associate Editor, Nanoscale Advances (RSC)
2006 – 2020 Member, Advisory Board of Advanced Materials (Wiley-VCH, i.f. 32.1)
2021 – now Member, Executive Advisory Board of Advanced Materials (Wiley-VCH, i.f. 32.1)
2008 – now Member, Advisory Board of Journal of Materials Chemistry (RSC, i.f. 8.1)
2009 – now Member, Advisory Board of Nanoscale (RSC, i.f. 8.3)
2011 – now Member, Advisory Board of ChemPhysChem (Wiley-VCH, i.f. 3.5)
2011 – now Member, Editorial Board of ChemPlusChem (Wiley-VCH, i.f. 3.2)
2012 – now Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Small (Wiley-VCH, i.f. 15.2)
2012 – now Member, Advisory Board of Chemical Communications (RSC, i.f. 6.1)
2013 – now Member, Advisory Board of Chemical Society Reviews (RSC, i.f. 60.6)
2016 – now Member, Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Omega (ACS, i.f. 4.1)
2017 – now Member, Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Nano (ACS, i.f. 18.1)
2018 – now Member, International Advisory Board of ChemNanoMat (Wiley-VCH, i.f. 3.8)
2018 – now Member, Editorial Advisory Board of ChemSystemsChem (Wiley-VCH)
2019 – now Member, Advisory Board of Nanoscale Horizons (RSC, i.f. 11.7)
2019 – now Member, Editorial Advisory Board of BMC Materials (Springer Nature)
2020 – now Member, Advisory Board of Materials Advances (RSC)
2020 – now Member, Editorial Board of SmartMat (Wiley-VCH)
2022 – now Member, Executive Advisory Board of Advanced Sensor Research (Wiley-VCH)
2023 – now Member, Inaugural Advisory Board of RSC Applied Interfaces (RSC)
2023 – now Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Chemistry Europe (Wiley-VCH)
2023 – now Member, Editorial Board of Responsive Materials (Wiley-VCH)
2023 – now Member, Editorial Board of Science Bulletin and Chinese Science Bulletin
In addition, Guest Editor of numerous books and special issues of top international journals (Advanced Materials, Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Functional Materials, etc.).
Selected Publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QYhE_bEAAAAJ&hl=it
Other Information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Samor%C3%AC