Professor Gianaurelio Cuniberti has held the Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology at TU Dresden and the Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials since 2007. He is affiliated with the Schools of Engineering Sciences, Science, and Medicine. He studied Physics at the University of Genoa and earned his Ph.D. in 1997 through a joint collaboration with the University of Hamburg. He was a visiting scientist at MIT and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, and from 2003 to 2007 led a Volkswagen Foundation Research Group at the University of Regensburg. His research is internationally recognized. He has organized workshops, schools, and conferences, contributed to international training networks, and delivered plenary and invited talks worldwide. He serves as a referee for major journals and funding bodies, including the EU, DFG, NSF, GIF, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has received several awards, contributed to multiple spin-offs, and serves on the Technical Scientific Committee of the Italian Institute of Technology. He is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea, and acatech. In 2024, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the Star of Italy.