He is permanent researcher at the Institute of Biophysics, Pisa, Italy. During the course of his scientific career, he has made pioneering contributions in the areas of Nanotribology, Nano-optics and Nanophotonics and Scanning Probe Microscopy, essentially Atomic Force Microscopy and Near-Field Optical Scanning Microscopy, quantum biology and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems. In 1999, he received a PhD on Nanotribology, first in Italy, from the University of Pisa. Dr D’Acunto’s scientific achievements include the first model ever proposed for Onset Wear on atomic scale; Near-Field Plasmonic behaviour of metal nanoparticles interacting with biological systems, Raman Scattering and Imaging, Super-Resolution methods for Image Analysis in Microscopy and a revolutionary solution of Proteon-DNA target identification based on quantum walk.