Dr. Antonio Facchetti obtained his Laurea degree in Chemistry cum laude and a Ph.D in Chemical Sciences from the University of Milan. In 2022 he joined the School of Material Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern and a Guest Professor at Linkoping University. He is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Flexterra Corporation.Prof. Facchetti has published more than 670 research articles, 14 book chapters, and holds more than 120 patents (H-index 132)
Dr. Facchetti’s research mainly focuses on Printed/Flexible/Stretchable/Sustainable Organic Electronics, Organic and Thin-Film Photovoltaic Cells, Transparent/Solution Processable Metal Oxide (MO) Electronics, Polymers for Energy Storage, using organic semiconductors as SERS-active platforms and investigate their integration into different sensor architectures, Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors and Bioelectronics, exploring new organic semiconductors, dopants, and catalysts to elucidate the mechanism of the catalytic n-doping process and expanding the scope to other type of catalysts and integrate catalyzed-doped materials into devices.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2023 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2023 2023 CAS REGISTRY® Innovator
2023 Highly Cited Researcher 2023
2022 Highly Cited Researcher 2022
2021 Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
2021 Highly Cited Researcher 2021
2021 Industry Era 10Best CTOs
2020 Highly Cited Researcher 2020
2019 Advanced Materials Hall of Fame
2019 Highly Cited Researcher 2019
2018 Highly Cited Researcher 2018
2017 Giulio Natta Gold Medal of the Italian Chemical Society
2017 Chemistry of Materials 1K Club Member
2017 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
2016 National Academy of Inventors, Fellow
2016 Chemistry of Materials Reviewer Award
2016 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
2016 American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Creative Invention
2016 Fellow of the ACS Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering
2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
2013 Fellow of the Materials Research Society
2013 U.S. National Academy of Engineering, invited talk to the US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2011 R&D FlexTech Award
2011 Selected Among “TOP 100 MATERIALS SCIENTISTS OF THE PAST DECADE (2000-2010)”, Thomson Reuters
2011 U.S. National Academies, invited talk to the first Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Program.
2010 IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2010 Award for the Development of Organic Materials
2010 US National Academy of Science, invited to the Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Imaging Science
2010 Fellow of the Kavli National Science Foundation
2009 Bepi Colombo Prize Finalist
2009 SCI (Italian Chemical Society) Research Prize
2003 INSTM Participation Award
1996 Summer School A. Corbella Participation Award
1986 Farchemia Award to the Best Student in Industrial Chemistry
