Ions, Electrons and Polymers: Fast Ion Insertion Towards GHz Iontronics
Prof Alberto Salleo
Professor and Department Chair
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Alberto Salleo is currently Professor of Materials Science and Department Chair at Stanford University. Alberto Salleo holds a Laurea degree in Chemistry from La Sapienza and graduated as a Fulbright Fellow with a PhD in Materials Science from UC Berkeley in 2001. From 2001 to 2005 Salleo was first post-doctoral research fellow and successively member of research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. In 2005 Salleo joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford as an Assistant Professor. While at Stanford, Salleo won the NSF Career Award, the 3M Untenured Faculty Award, the SPIE Early Career Award, the Tau Beta Pi Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford’s highest teaching award. He has been a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher since 2015 and was elected to the European Academy of Sciences in 2021, a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2022, and a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2023.