Alberto Diaspro (born April 7, 1959, in

Genoa, Italy Genoa ( ; ; ) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy. As of 2025, 563,947 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 818,651 inhabitants ...

) is an Italian scientist. He received his doctoral degree in

electronic engineering Electronic engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering that emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current flo ...

from the university of

, in 1983. He is full professor in

applied physics Applied physics is the application of physics to solve scientific or engineering problems. It is usually considered a bridge or a connection between physics and engineering. "Applied" is distinguished from "pure" by a subtle combination of fac ...

university of Genoa The University of Genoa () is a public research university. It is one of the largest universities in Italy and it is located in the city of Genoa, on the Italian Riviera in the Liguria region of northwestern Italy. The original university was fou ...

. He is research director of Nanoscopy

Italian Institute of Technology The Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) (in English: Italian Institute of Technology) is a scientific research centre based in Genoa (Italy, EU). Its main goal is the advancement of science, in Italy and worldwide, through projects and discove ...

. Alberto Diaspro is President of the Italian

biophysical Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. B ...

society SIBPA. In 2022 he got the

Gregorio Weber Gregorio Weber (4 July 1916 – 18 July 1997) was an Argentinian scientist who made significant contributions to the fields of fluorescence spectroscopy and protein chemistry."Biophysical Journal, Volume 75, July 1998, pages 419-421" Weber was ele ...

Award for excellence in

fluorescence Fluorescence is one of two kinds of photoluminescence, the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation. When exposed to ultraviolet radiation, many substances will glow (fluoresce) with colore ...

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Alberto Diaspro - Top Italian Scientist in Physics

Alberto Diaspro è stato eletto Presidente della Società Italiana di Biofisica Pura e Applicata

{{DEFAULTSORT:Diaspro, Alberto 1959 births Living people Electronic engineering Engineers from Genoa 20th-century Italian educators University of Genoa alumni