Since 2003, Paolo Samori holds a visiting professorship at the Institut de Science et d'Ingenierie Supramoleculaires (ISIS) of the Universite Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg, France, where he is director of the Nanochemistry Laboratory. He obtained his Laurea (master's degree) in industrial chemistry at the University of Bologna and went on to join the group of Prof. Jurgen P. Rabe at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, where he received his doctorate in 2000 for his work on self-assembly of conjugated (macro)molecules at surfaces and interfaces. After a further year of post-doctoral r...