in 2011 he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow in the same group. Since October 2012, he has been appointed as Assistant Professor (Maître de conference) at the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S.), University of Strasbourg. For his doctoral work, he was awarded the Eni Award 2010 “debut research prize”.

His research focuses on design, synthesis, photophysical and theoretical characterization of self-assembling (electro-)luminescent materials based on transition metal complexes and their application in optoelectronic devices and bio-imaging. The current main goal of his research is to explore, by means of buttom-up approach, the possibility to control long-range ordered nano- and micro-meter scale supramolecular structures based on organometallic functional materials, displaying enhanced photophysical and biological properties with respect to the bulk (non-assembled) counterparts.