Stefano Canossa was born in Mantova, Italy in 1986. After completing his studies in Materials Chemistry at the University of Parma in 2014, he received his PhD in Chemistry at the same university under the guidance of Prof. Alessia Bacchi and Prof Giovanni Predieri, focussing on the crystallographic analysis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their structural disorder by total scattering diffraction techniques. After graduating in March 2018, he moved to the Netherlands to work as a postdoc at TU Delft (Dr. Monique Van der Veen group, Dept. of Chemical Engineering) on the crystal engineering and structural analysis of MOFs for electronic applications.
In July 2019 he has been awarded his current FWO individual fellowship to work in the University of Antwerp (Prof. Joke Hadermann’s group, EMAT, Department of Physics), with a project focusing on the development of electron total scattering analysis for the combined determination of average structure and correlated disorder in framework nanomaterials.
Along with his enthusiasm for the crystallography of complex crystalline systems, he is passionately committed to science communication and educational initiatives. His main professional goals are to push forward the development of single-crystal total-scattering techniques and to spread this practice among researchers of any level of experience in order to make this crucial crystallographic analysis more available to the Materials Science community.
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