Felice Simone

I am a Senior Researcher of the Environmental Nanotechnology and Nanosafety Group at the Institute for Science and Sustainability of Materials (ISSMC) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). I develop experimental methods for the investigation of the interaction of nanoparticles with biological membranes. I developed statistical and theoretical methods for ranking nanomaterials according to their hazards. I have been working for decades on physical-chemistry and characterization of nanostructured systems, nano-chemistry, nano-interphases. I received a PhD in nano-electrochemistry from the University of Ulm (Germany), Kolb’s group; I was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard University (USA) in the G. Whitesides group. I worked in several international projects about nanosafety, which include regulation of nanomaterials (NanoDefine), experimental methods for assessing the hazard of nanomaterials (PATROLS), and the Safety-by-Design of nanomaterials (ASINA, SABYNA).