Gaetano Scamarcio

Gaetano Scamarcio is Director of the Institute of Nanoscience (Cnr Nano) and Full Professor of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Bari (currently on leave). His research spans quantum optoelectronics, photonics, and, more recently, emergent collective phenomena in organic bioelectronics. He held full-time research positions at Bell Laboratories (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics (Germany), and completed visiting appointments at the Walter Schottky Institute (Munich), Bell Labs, and Université Paris Diderot.

Internationally recognised for inventing the superlattice quantum cascade laser, pioneering detectorless THz nanoscopy, and demonstrating that millimetre-scale electronic and optoelectronic devices can detect single molecules, he has published over 300 papers in leading journals such as Science, Advanced Materials, and Nature Communications. He holds several international patents and has coordinated large-scale national and European research consortia.