Francesco Bonaccorso

Francesco Bonaccorso

Francesco Bonaccorso is the Scientific Director of BeDimensional S.p.A. He gained the PhD from the University of Messina. In 2009 he was awarded a Royal Society Newton In-ternational Fellowship at Cambridge University, and elected to a Research Fellowship at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, where he also obtained a MA. He was responsible in defining the ten years scientific and technological roadmap for the European Graphene Flagship, cover-ing the role of Deputy of the Innovation for 6 years. He is member of the executive board of the Innovative Advanced Materials Initiative (IAM-I). He is/was involved in tens of Europe-an/National projects as coordinator or principal investigator. He is author of 17 patent fami-lies and more than 230 publications that have been cited more than 44000 times. He deliv-ered more than 230 invited presentations worldwide. He was featured as 2016 Emerging In-vestigator by J. Mater. Chem. A and in 2019 by ChemPlusChem. In 2018 he was recognized as Highly cited Scientist by Clarivate Analytics. In 2019 he received the Magister Pelorita-nus by Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti and ExAllievi Eccellenti by the University of Messina. He co-founded Cambridge Graphene Ltd and BeDimensional SpA.