Prof Valeria Nicolosi
Professor of Nanomaterials and Advanced Microscopy Trinity College Dublin
Professor Valeria Nicolosi received a BSc (honours) in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Catania (Italy) in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Physics in 2006 from Trinity College Dublin.
In 2008 she moved to the University of Oxford with a RAEng/EPSRC Fellowship. In 2012 she returned to Trinity College Dublin as Research Professor. Now she is the Chair of Nanomaterials and Advanced Microscopy in Trinity College Dublin, and a PI in AMBER (Advanced Materials and Bio Engineering Research) and I-Form (Advanced Manufacturing) Research Centres.
Professor Nicolosi’s work includes synthesis, exfoliation and characterisation of layered materials towards a range of applications, particularly energy and ICT. Strong emphasis is given to the characterisation of materials and devices by advanced electron microscopy techniques, such as aberration-corrected TEM, STEM, EELS and EDS.
She has published more than 250 high-impact-papers and won numerous awards. Professor Valeria Nicolosi is an eight-time ERC awardee.
Every year, since 2018 she has been recognised as one of the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.
Professor Nicolosi served on the Advisory Board of the European Innovation Council (EIC) from 2019 to 2021 and she sits on the Council of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings since 2022.
She has won numerous awards: the RDS/Intel Prize for Nanoscience 2012, the World Economic Forum Young Scientist 2013, EU Woman in Technology Award 2013, SFI President of Ireland Young Researcher Award 2014, SFI Irish Early-Stage Researcher 2016, TCD ERC Awardee 2017, Women Business Forum Women of the Decade in Science & Innovation 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry Peter Day Prize 2025.
As a recognition of her career achievements, in 2021 Professor Nicolosi was conferred the honorary decoration of “Cavaliere” in the Order “Stella d’Italia” (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy) by the President of the Italian Republic, at the proposal of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.