Nathan C. Gianneschi

Nathan C. Gianneschi is the Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University,[1] the Associate Director for the International Institute for Nanotechnology,[2] and a 2010 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.[3] Gianneschi's lab takes an interdisciplinary approach to nanomaterials research, with a focus on multifunctional materials for biomedical applications, programmed interactions with biomolecules and cells, and basic research into nanoscale materials design, synthesis and characterization.[4]

Gianneschi is a Sloan Research Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering[5]. He came to Northwestern University in 2017 from the University of California, San Diego, where he was the Teddy Traylor Faculty Scholar and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Materials Science and Engineering and NanoEngineering.[6]