Alberto Salleo#
| Membership Number: | 6515 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://salleo.stanford.edu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7448-9123 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Chair, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Stanford University
- 2019 Full Professor of Materials Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- 2016,08 - 2016,12 Visiting Professor, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Centre Microelectronique de Provence, Bioelectronics Dept.
- 2013 - 2019 Associate Professor of Materials Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- 2005 - 2012 Assistant Professor of Materials Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- 2001 - 2005 Post-doctoral Fellow and Member of Research Staff, PARC Inc., Palo Alto, CA
- 1998 - 2001 PhD student, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
- 1995 - 1998 Master’s Student, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
- 1/1994 - 6/1994 Visiting Student diplôme, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
- 1988 - 1994 Mater’s in Chemistry, University of Rome La Sapienza
Fields of Scholarship
- Organic bioelectronics
- Structural and operando characterization of organic semiconductors
- Organic bioelectronics: point of care and wearable biosensors
- Organic transistors: connecting structure to performance
- Electronic transport
- Organic semiconductors
- Structure-property relations
- Electrochemical devices for neuromorphic computing
Honours and Awards
- Honours
- 2022 Elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society
- 2021 Elected fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2020 Knighthood (Cavaliere Ordine al Merito) of the Italian Republic
- Since 2015 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% cited scientist) in Materials Science
- 2016 Walter J. Gores Award for excellence in teaching (Stanford’s university-wide highest teaching honor, awarded to 2 faculty every year out of ~2,000)
- 2013 Tau Beta Pi School of Engineering Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
- 2013 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow
- 2010 SPIE Early Career Award
- 2007 - 2009 3M Untenured Faculty Award
- 2007 - 2011 NSF Career Award
- 2003 and 2004 PARC Outstanding Performance Award
- 1995 - 2000 Fulbright Fellow
- Professorships:
- 2016 Visiting Professor, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, Gardanne campus
- Board memberships
- 2022 Elected to the Board of Directors of the Materials Research Society
- Board member and member of the Scientific Council of the Italian Scholars and Scientists of North America Foundation (ISSNAF)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Domaine d’Interêt Majeurs, Matériaux Anciens et Patrimoniaux, the French national research network for cultural heritage research
- 2018 - 2022 Member of the Users Executive Committee of the Molecular Foundry, LBNL
- 2013 - 2016 Member of the Users Executive Committee of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
- 2011 - present Principal Editor of MRS Communications
- 2008 - 2015 Associate Editor of Journal of Electronic Materials
