Prof. Francesco Cellesi Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Francesco Cellesi is associate professor at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering. He graduated in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pisa (IT), in 1999. He obtained a PhD in at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zurich (CH) in 2003, and in 2006 he became... read moreLecturer at the School of Pharmacy, University of Manchester (UK). In 2013 he joined the Fondazione CEN - European Centre for Nanomedicine and Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda -Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico as Group Leader in Milan.

His main research interests focus on the design and processing of nano biomaterials for novel drug delivery systems and diagnostics, as well as cell microencapsulation and tissue engineering. His areas of expertise span from applied physical chemistry, polymer chemistry, colloidal chemistry, to materials science and engineering.