Elisa Riedo#
| Membership Number: | 6495 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/elisa-riedo?page=1 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2423-8801 |
| Twitter: | @RiedoLab |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisa-riedo-919753111/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Sept 2018 - now Tenured Full Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering - New York University
- Sept 2021 - now Director of Faculty Development at NYU - Tandon School of Engineering
- Sept 2021 - now Professor of Physics NYU – College of Arts and Science
- Sept 2021 - now Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Affiliated) NYU - Tandon School of Engineering
- Sept 2015 - 2018 Professor of Nanoscience and Founding Member of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, NYC (USA)
- 2015 Tenured Full Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Tech (USA)
- 2009 - 2015 Associate Professor (with tenure), School of Physics, Georgia Tech (USA)
- 2003 - 2009 Assistant Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Tech (USA)
- 1999 - 2003 Post Doctoral Fellow, École Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL)
- 1998 - 1999 Research Assistant, European Synchrotron Research Facility (ESRF), (France)
- Feb - Jun 1998 Research Assistant, TASC – INFM labs, Trieste (Italy)
- 1996 - 1998 Research Assistant, CoreCom - Politecnico of Milan (Italy)
Fields of Scholarship
- Experimental nanoscience
- Graphene, diamene and 2D materials
- Novel nanofabrication methods for 2D materials and biomedical applications
- Thermal scanning probe lithography
- Scanning probe microscopy
- Nanomechanics of 1D and 2D materials
- Nanoscale friction
- Nanoconfined water
Honours and Awards
- 2023 NYU Tandon Excellence in Research Award
- 2017 The CNST NIST Director's office Lecture
- 2013 American Physical Society (APS) Elected Fellow, for her “atomic force microscopy studies of nanoscale friction, liquid structure and nanotube elasticity, and the invention of thermochemical nanolithography”
- 2006 GeorgiaTech Cutting Edge Research Award
- 2005 "Highly Creative Researcher in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" for the Project on Creativity Capabilities and the Promotion of Highly Innovative Research” (CREA), a joint USA/European endeavor.
- 1995 "Laurea" in Physics, Summa cum Laude, University of Milano, Italy
- 2019 - present Editorial Board Member for 2D Materials and Applications Nature Publishing Group
- 2019 - 2020 Technical Advisory Board of SwissLitho AG
- 2021 - present Advisor for Mirimus Inc.
- 2012 - 2018 Editorial Board Member for “Scientific Reports” Nature PG
- 2008 - 2010 Editorial Board Member for “Review of Scientific Instruments”
- Session Chair and Symposia Organizer at several APS, MRS and AVS Meetings
- Selected scientific News Coverage: Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, NPR Canada, Daily News (UK), Popular Science, Science Daily, EurekAlert, ANSA, La radio del Sole 24 Ore, La Repubblica, Il Venerdi di Repubblica, Corriere della Sera and others news outlets
