Casalini Stefano

Biography

By checking my curriculum, one can get the following chronological overview of my career: 1)      01/09/1998 - 18/07/2003             Graduation in chemistry 2)      01/02/2004 - 01/01/2005             Pre-doctoral grant funded by Vinicola San Nazario s.r.l. 3)      01/01/2005 - 19/02/2008             PhD in chemistry 4)      15/06/2008 - 14/01/2009             Post-doctoral grant funded by Tetrapak s.p.a. 5)      15/04/2009 - 14/04/2012             Post-doctoral research grant funded by ONE-P European project 6)      15/04/2012 - 15/04/2015             Post-doctoral research grant funded by I-ONE European project 7)      01/06/2015 - 15/12/2015             Visiting researcher at ICMAB-CSIC 8)      16/12/2015 - 15/03/2016            Post-doctoral research grant funded by e-GAMES ERC grant 9)      16/03/2016 - 15/03/2018            TECNIOSpring2015 fellow cofounded by Marie Curie Programme.   As schematically listed, my career has not experienced any remarkable break, even though I changed different working places such as University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, two companies (viz. Vinicola San Nazaro and Tetrapak), Institute for Nanostructured Materials (ISMN-CNR) and Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC). Along the scientific education of a student, the degree graduation and the PhD defense are two natural breaks in his career. In my case, they coincided to two collaborative experiences with two industries (Vinicola San Nazaro s.r.l. and Tetrapak s.p.a.). These two contracts allowed me to make use of my scientific skills in a non-academic environment giving me the opportunity to work in the field of applied science together with their R&D teams. My first Post-Doc grant was funded by the European project “Organic Nanomaterials for Electronics and Photonics (ONE-P)”. My second Post-Doc grant was funded by the European project “Implantable Organic NanoElectronics (I-ONE)”. The former was mainly focused on Molecular Electronics, whereas the latter one on Bio-Electronics. Recently, I got the TECNIOSpring2015 fellowship with total budget equal to 133020 €. Finally, I could state that my career is well balanced by looking carefully at each skill that an independent researcher must need. i)                     I showed a good flexibility by moving my research topic three times. ii)                   I worked in two large European projects, in which I was responsible of different activities (e.g. I was responsible of several deliverables and milestones). This allowed me to work for more than 6 years at the top level in Europe. iii)                  I published 25 peer-reviewed articles and one book chapter. I was 1st author in 14 of them, once as last author and 11 times as corresponding author. I had more than 55 co-authors. This clearly shows my attitude to manage several national and international collaborations, and it also hints to my degree of independence on developing idea together with their scientific dissemination through talks and/or peer-reviewed articles. iv)                 I was part of the organizing committee of three different International Conferences and I co-supervised several students both under-graduate and PhD. The synergy between my expertise and the scientific background of Dr. Marta Mas-Torrent has yielded to the fabrication of a robust platform well-suited for bio-applications. This allowed me to publish 2 peer-reviewed papers in a very short time as well as to get funding for that (i.e. TECNIOSpring2015 fellowship, total budget 133020 €).

Research Interest

electrochemistry, organic electronics, surface engineering