Alberto BiancoUniversity of Strasbourg, France
Dr. Alberto Bianco received his PhD in 1995 from the University of Padova (Italy). As a visiting scientist, he worked at the University of Lausanne during 1992, at the University of Tübingen in 1996–1997 (as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow) and at the University of Padova in 1997–1998. He is currently First Class Research Director at the CNRS in Strasbourg (France). His research interests focus on the design of multifunctional carbon-based nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene and adamantane) and other 2D materials (hBN, transition metal dichalcogenides) for therapeutic, diagnostic and imaging applications. He is also intereste on the impact of this type of materials on health. He is author and co-author of over 220 papers. He is Associate Editor of Nanotechnology Reviews and in the Advisory Board of Nanomedicine (Lond.) and the Journal of Peptide Science. In 2011 he has been appointed as Editor of Carbon.