Prof. Paolo Samorì
Distinguished Professor, Université de Strasbourg
Interim Administrator, Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS)
Director, Nanochemistry Laboratory
Prof. Paolo Samorì is a Distinguished Professor at the Université de Strasbourg, where he serves as Interim Administrator of the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) and Director of the Nanochemistry Laboratory.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), a Member of the Academia Europaea, a Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB), a Fellow of the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS), a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), a Member of the National Academy of Technologies of France, and a Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).
Prof. Samorì earned his Laurea (Master’s degree) in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Bologna (Italy) in 1995, and his PhD in Chemistry from the Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) with Prof. J. P. Rabe in 2000. He subsequently worked as a Permanent Research Scientist at the Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) in Bologna from 2001 to 2008, while also serving as Visiting Professor at ISIS from 2003 to 2008.
He has authored over 510 publications in the fields of nanochemistry, supramolecular science, materials chemistry, and scanning probe microscopiy. His research focuses on graphene and other 2D materials, as well as functional organic, polymeric, and hybrid nanomaterials for applications in optoelectronics, energy, and sensing.
Prof. Samorì’s contributions have been recognised with numerous prestigious prizes, including the E-MRS Graduate Student Award (1998), theMRS Graduate Student Award (2000), the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (2001), the Vincenzo Caglioti Award (2006), the Nicolò Copernico Award (2009), the Guy Ourisson Prize (2010), the ERC Starting Grant (2010), the CNRS Silver Medal (2012), the Catalán–Sabatier Prize (2017), the Grignard–Wittig Lectureship (2017), the ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2017, 2020), the RSC Surfaces and Interfaces Award (2018), the Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science (2018), the Pierre Süe Prize (2018), the ERC Advanced Grant (2019), the “Étoiles de l’Europe” Prize (2019), the RSC/SCF Joint Lectureship in Chemical Sciences (2020), the André Collet Prize (2022), the IUMRS-ICEM Mid-career Researcher Award (2024), the Luigi Tartufari Prize (2024), and the Amedeo Avogadro Medal (2025).
He serves as Associate Editor of ACS Nano and sits on the Advisory Boards of numerous leading journals, including ACS Omega, Advanced Materials, Advanced Sensor Research, BMC Materials, Chemical Communications, Chemical Society Reviews, Chemistry Europe, ChemNanoMat, ChemPhysChem, ChemPlusChem, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Materials Advances, MGE Advances, Nanoscale Horizons, Responsive Materials, RSC Applied Interfaces, Small, and SmartMat.
Key Figures:
- 510+ publications
- 28,000+ / 36,600+ citations
- h-index = 84 / 99
Source: Web of Science / Google Scholar (13/10/2025)