Michele Ferrari is a Senior Researcher at CNR-ICMATE (Institute of Condensed Matter and Technologies for Energy) in Genova, Italy. He had an EU postdoc position with the group of Dr. Miller in 1994 at Max Planck Inst. for Colloids and Interfaces in Berlin. He was a visiting researcher (2001) at MPI-KG (Golm, Germany), MPI-PR (Mainz, Germany) (2006), UNISA (Adelaide, Australia)(2009) and INFLPR (Magurele, Romania) (2013). He is a member of IN2 Universitat de Barcelona, COST European Action networks in Physics of Droplets (P21), (CM1101), (MP1106). His scientific interests include wetting, superhydrophobic and amphiphobic coatings, application in solar panels, marine environment, interfacial properties of surfactant systems and microgravity experiments (onboard Shuttle and ISS) and AFM in studies of adsorption and self-assembly of amphiphiles at the liquid–solid interface and 3D confocal profilometry for in vitro cell response screening for drug treatment.