Biography

P.D. Cozzoli received his MSc degree in Chemistry in 1999 and his PhD Award in Chemical Sciences in 2004 from the University of Bari, Italy. His PhD research activities, which were in part carried out at the University of Hamburg, focused on the wet-chemical synthesis and photocatalytic applications of shape-controlled semiconductor oxide nanocrystals. For his PhD work, he was awarded the “Semerano Award” for the Best PhD Thesis in 2004 in Italy in Physical Chemistry by the Italian Association of Physical Chemistry. In 2004-2005, as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bari, he developed electrostatically stabilized metal/oxide nanocrystal composite systems and the synthesis of shape-controlled nanocrystals of polytypic semiconductors. Since then, all his major research efforts have been oriented towards development and investigation of advanced breeds of colloidal inorganic nanoparticles, including single-phase nanocrystals and multicomponent nanocrystal heterostructures, with emphasis on their application in the hot nanotechnology areas of (photo)catalysis, photovoltaics, biomedicine, and the fabrication of functional nanocomposite materials). From 2005 to 2007 P. D. Cozzoli worked as Junior Researcher at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL) - Nanoscience Institute of CNR, Lecce, Italy. Over this period, P. D. Cozzoli started his gradual transition towards an independent research career as principal investigator and leader of a research team. From 2009 to 2014 P.D. Cozzoli led the Nanochemistry Division of the CNR Institute Nanoscience, Lecce, Italy, serving as Associate Researcher of CNR. Since 2015, he is responsible for the Nanochemistry Facility of the newly founded CNR Institute of Nanotechnology, Lecce, Italy. In 2015 he was appointed Associate Professor of Experimental Matter Physics at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. Currently, P.D. Cozzoli is serving as Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journals “Science of Advanced Materials”, “Journal of Nanomaterials", "International Journal of Photoenergy", "Frontiers in Materials", and PLOS ONE, and an editorial board member of "Science China Materials", "AIMS Materials Science", "Recent Patents on Materials Science", "General Chemistry", "SF Journal of Nanochemistry and Nanotechnology", and "Open Material Sciences". Since the beginning of his career as a chemist, his scientific activities have been devoted to cutting-edge research on functional colloidal inorganic nanocrystals, tackling many of the big challenges lying ahead in the highly competitive research community that investigates design, development and practical exploitation of nanostructures with purpose-built functionalities for innovative processes and applications. During all this time, P.D. Cozzoli has trained several master students, PhD students, postdocs and visiting scientists.

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Research Interest

So far, P.D. Cozzoli has published more than 120 scientific works (including 105 research papers, 6 invited review articles in peer-reviewed international journals, such as Nature Nanotechnology, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of Physical Chemistry B/C, Langmuir, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Small, Applied Catalysis, Nano Today, Frontiers in Materials, 1 book review, 1 commentary, 1 editorial, and 6 book chapters). His publications have attracted over 8200 citations, allowing him to earn H-index=43 (according to ISI WEB of SCIENCE). He has also edited 1 Book and an additional one is currently under preparation. He owns 4 patents. P.D. Cozzoli is regularly invited to evaluate research proposals and papers for the most important American/European scientific journals, to deliver talks, both at international conferences and at universities, research institutions and companies, to organize conferences, to write book chapters and review articles providing a critical and authoritative overview of progress made in nanocrystal development and prospects of nanocrystal exploitation in processes and devices.