We would like to invite everybody to a lecture of prof. Gianni Ciofani (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Smart Bio-Interfaces, Pontedera, Italy), which will be organized on Friday, April 26th at 11:00 am in the Centre for New Technologies Lecture Hall A (Konarskiego 22B, Gliwice). The lecture is entitled "Tuning Cellular Functions through Smart Nanomaterials".

Prof. Gianni Ciofani is Principal Investigator of the Smart Bio-Interfaces Research Unit and Coordinator of the Center for Materials Interfaces. His main research interests concern smart nanomaterials for nanomedicine, microphysiological systems, and nanomedicine in altered gravity conditions. He is coordinator or unit leader of several projects; in particular, he was awarded with a Starting Grant and three Proof-of-Concept Grants by the European Research Council (ERC). Thanks to grants from the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency, he had the opportunity to carry out four experimental campaigns onboard the International Space Station.

Gianni Ciofani is author of about 190 papers on international journals (Scopus H-index 52), 3 edited books, and 18 book chapters, and delivered about 70 invited talks/lectures in international contexts. He serves as Reviewer for many funding agencies (including ERC, Swiss National Science Foundation, French National Research Agency, National Science Center of Poland).

The visit is organized by the Centre for Organic and Nanohybrid Electronics and co-financed as part of the implementation of the task in the pro-quality program regarding investment in the development of internationalization from the funds of the Excellence Initiative - Research University program.