Andrea Falqui

Andrea Falqui is born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, in 1969. Over there, in 1987 he earned his high-school Diploma at the public classical high-school “Giovanni Siotto-Pintor” with the highest marks. Then he got his master degree in Physics with the highest marks and honors in 1993 at the University of Cagliari, discussing a dissertation on SEM and EDXS quantitative analysis. Since 1993 and for the following five years he taught Mathematics and Physics in the public Italian high-schools. He earned the PhD degree in Physics with the highest marks at the University of Cagliari in 2001, with a Thesis on the Magnetic Properties of Nanocomposite Materials. He was a Marie Curie PostDoc Fellow at CEMES/CNRS, Toulouse (France), carrying out a research project based on investigations of magnetic nanocomposites by Conventional and High Resolution Transmission Microscopy and EEL Spectroscopy (2001-2002). He worked as Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry at University of Cagliari, from 2002 to 2014. In this capacity has taught Physical Chemistry, Solid State Physical Chemistry, Physics of Materials and Mathematics. Andrea Falqui was Visiting Researcher and Professor at INSA (Institut National de Sciences Appliqués) in Toulouse, France, (2006-2007 and 2009), where taught General Physics and carried out research on nanomaterials by conventional and High Resolution Transmission and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy, and concomitant EDXS-based compositional studies. He was founder and director of the Electron Microscopy Laboratory of the Italian Institute of Technology of Genoa (Italy) from 2008 to 2014, where he learnt plenty of things upon several points of view. From 2014 until 2020 he was Associate Professor of Bioscience and Materials Science at Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. In this capacity he taught basics and advanced electron microscopy imaging and led a research team constituted by Research Scientists, PostDoc fellows and PhD students. From October 2020 Andrea Falqui is Associate Professor of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics at Physics Department of University of Milan, Italy. His research deals with advanced electron microscopy techniques applied to both nanomaterials and biomaterials, even interacting between them, in view of different aims, basic science advances and applications. He is also expert of magnetic behaviour of nanomaterials, studied by SQUID magnetometry. He is member of the editorial board of "Scientific Reports", "Journal of Nanomaterials", and "Frontiers in materials". Andrea Falqui is co-author of four book chapters and about 200 papers published in international scientific journals. His current h-index is 59, with more than 10000 citations. (Source: Google Scholar, September 2023). Andrea likes reading, writing, making street photography, traveling, watching movies of any kind, laughing and discussing about almost whatever and even politics, the latter possibly around the table, and in front of good food and wine.