Cinzia Casiraghi

Cinzia Casiraghi is a Professor of Nanoscience in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester and National Graphene Institute in the UK.

[1][2][3][4] Casiraghi's undergraduate studies took place at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, where she obtained a BSc and an MSc in Nuclear Engineering.

[7][8] She moved to the University of Manchester in 2010, and was appointed Professor in Nanoscience in 2016,[3] the same year that she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.

[11] She has focussed on ink-jet printed two-dimensional materials as well as nanotubes[12] for sensors, photodetectors and solar cells.

[13][14] Casiraghi was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant to study the Nucleation of Organic Crystals on 2D Templates.