Tomaso Zambelli

Biography

Prof. Tomaso Zambelli is an expert of scanning probe microscopy.
He studied physics (condensed matter) at the Università di Padova (IT) and earned his PhD at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Berlin, DE) under the supervision of Prof. Wintterlin and Prof. Ertl studying catalytic reactions on metal surfaces with UHV-STM. After two years as postdoctoral fellow at the CNRS-LPLE institute in Paris (FR) with Dr. Allongue investigating local metal electrodeposition on Si surfaces with electrochemical STM, he was appointed as “Chargé de Recherches du CNRS” at the CEMES institute (Toulouse, FR) in the Nanoscience Group. Together with Dr. Gauthier and Dr. Piednoir he carried out single-molecule studies by UHV-STM and AFM obtaining the “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” de l'Université Paul-Sabatier (Toulouse) in 2006. In the same year, he joined the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics (ETH Zürich D-ITET, head: Prof. Vörös) where he initiated and coordinated the invention of the FluidFM technology. He was appointed adjoint professor in Dec 2018.
His major research interest is the further development of the FluidFM for single-cell biophysics, molecular 2D patterning, and electrochemical additive micromanufacturing.