Stefano PIOTTO PIOTTO | Curriculum

Stefano Piotto is Full Professor at the University of Salerno, Department of Pharmacy, where he teaches General Chemistry and Biomaterials. He has been the Director of the BIONAM Interdepartmental Biomaterials Center since 2020. He received the Master in Chemistry (110/110 cum laude) at the University of Rome in 1994. From 1995 to 1997, he was responsible for the Chemical Analysis Laboratory for the Italian Army, and he was a software developer at IBM (Rome). He received a PhD in Material Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in 2000.

From 2000 to 2003, he was a solid-state chemistry postdoc in Professor Reinhard Nesper's group (ETH Zurich). In the same period, he was also responsible for the project CCN@ETHZ, which was in the framework of an e-learning project of Swiss Universities. In 2004, he obtained a grant as an Advanced Researcher from the Swiss Science National Foundation to investigate lipid membranes as potential drug delivery systems, and he moved to the University of Salerno (Italy). Since 2006, he has been an assistant professor at the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Salerno, where he leads the SoftMatterLab. Since 2010, he has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Balearic Islands, Spain. In 2007, he co-founded e-Solving Srl, a company active in e-learning and advanced visualisation techniques in teaching science. He designed and developed the first European contact tracing app, www.smcovid19.org.

In 2016, he was co-founder and CEO of SmartVase Srl, a startup active in the field of biomaterials. Among several awards, the Italian President of the Republic awarded SmartVase the “Premio dei Premi” as the Best Innovative Company in Italy in 2016.

In 2019, he became co-founder and CEO of SoftMining Srl, a startup that combines Artificial Intelligence and Computational Drug Design.

SP regularly organises the Bionam conference on bionanomaterials. He is the editor of two book series by Springer and indexed in Scopus: Lecture Notes in Bioengineering and Communications in Computer and Information Science.

SP is the author of numerous scientific software.

He has authored over 100 scientific papers, five patents, three books and co-authored a scientific film ("Origin of life: what science has to say" Golden Snake, Best Science Film, 2001).

He coordinates or participates in numerous international research projects.
His research interests include AI-assisted drug discovery, the development of methods for computational chemistry, photoresponsive materials, and the study of the origin of life.

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