Tommaso Bellini
Curriculum Vitae
Tommaso Bellini
Full professor of Applied Physics
University of Milano
Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine
Email: tommaso.bellini@unimi.it
APPOINTMENTS:
Since 2002 Full Professor in Applied Physics, University of Milan
1999-2001 Associate Professor in General Physics, Politecnico of Milan.
1992-1999 Assistant Professor in Condensed Matter Physics, University of Pavia.
1990-1992 Postdoc at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
EDUCATION:
1990 PhD in Physics at the University of Pavia.
1985 Graduate degree (MSc) in Physics at the University of Pavia.
ROLES:
Since 2002 Group leader of the “Complex Fluids and Molecular Biophysics” Group University of Milan
Since 2004 Member of the Soft Material Research Center of the university of Colorado Boulder
2011-2020 President, ProXentia s.r.l. Spin-off company, University of Milan (www.proxentia.com)
Since 2015 Member for the board of the Italian Liquid Crystal Society
AWARDS:
2018 winner of the Cozzarelli prize of the National Academy of Science USA “For excellence in engineering and applied science”
157 publications (Scopus), H-index (Scopus) = 37; publications on Science, Nature Materials, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, PNAS.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4898-4400
The research activity is in the field of bio-soft matter and complex molecular fluids and includes studies of DNA nanotechnology, DNA supramolecular ordering, molecular interactions, liquid crystals, protein folding, polymer solutions, nanoparticles and colloids, micro and nanoconfined fluids.
The activity also includes the development of new technologies in the fields of optical microscopy and optical biosensors.
Inventor in three patents. Founder of a technological spin-off company (ProXentia srl)
