Hedi Mattoussi is a Tunisian-American materials scientist and professor at Florida State University.
[2] In 1992 Mattoussi joined the University of Florida, where he worked as an assistant scientist in the department of physics.
Mattoussi joined the United States Naval Research Laboratory in 1997, where he served as principal investigator.
[3] Mattoussi joined the faculty at Florida State University as a professor of chemistry, where he leads a group that study the interfaces between inorganic nanocrystals and biological systems.
[4] To this end, he designs and synthesises novel nanocrystals based on semiconductors and metallic nanoparticles, creates multifunctional ligands and studies nanoparticle-bioconjugates.