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Francesco Stellacci

francesco.stellacci@epfl.ch http://sunmil.epfl.ch/

EPFL STI IMX SUNMIL
MXG 030 (Bâtiment MXG)
Station 12
1015 Lausanne

EPFL STI IBI-GE
AAB
Station 15
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Nanomaterials,
Nanoparticles,
Soft Materials,
Supramolecular interactions,
Solid-Liquid Interfaces,
Nanomedicine
Antivirals
Francesco Stellacci graduated in Materials Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1998 with a thesis on photochromic polymers with Prof. Giuseppe Zerbi and Mariacarla Gallazzi. In 1999 he moved to the Chemistry Department of the University of Arizona for as a post-doc in the group of Joe Perry in close collaboration with the group of Seth Marder. In 2002 he moved to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. He was then promoted to associate without (2006) and with tenure (2009). In 2010 he moved to the Institute of Materials at EPFL as a full Professor. He holds the Alcan EP Chair. Francesco was one of the recipients of the Technology Review TR35 "35 Innovator under 35" award in 2005, and the Popular Science Magazine "Brilliant 10" award in 2007. He has been a Packard Fellow starting 2005.

Awards

Technology Review TR35 "35 Innovator under 35" award

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Popular Science Magazine "Brilliant 10" award

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Packard Fellow

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Publications

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Aleksandr Poliukhin, Ding Ren, Cécilia Laetitia Carla Siri, Ekaterina Poliukhina, Anna Koptelova, Emie-Kim Ngo Tan, Hien Tran Thi

Past EPFL PhD Students

Ting Mao (2024), Francesca Olgiati (2024), Melis Özkan (2025)

Courses

Thermodynamics for materials science

MSE-204

This course establishes the basic concepts of thermodynamics and defines the main state functions. The concepts are then applied to the study of phase diagrams of various systems.