Lionel Santinacci received a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) in 2002. His thesis has been carried out successively at EPFL (1998-2000) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität-Erlangen-Nürnberg (2000-2002) under the supervision of Prof. Patrik Schmuki. His Ph.D. work involved the AFM-scratching induced surface electrochemical nanostructuring. During this time, he also performed surface modifications of III-V semiconductors by anodic processes (oxide and porous layers) in collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada. Perfect for when you want to use just one icon as a vector on the desktop or in your own icon workflow.He performed post-doctoral studies on Li-polymer batteries by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy at Aix-Marseille University (2002-2003). In 2003, he joined the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP) as non-tenured assistant professor to investigate the localized corrosion of Cu single crystal by in situ AFM (2003-2004). In 2004, he got a CNRS researcher position at the Lavoisier's Institute of the University of Versailles to continue the work on the anodic surface structuring of III-V materials such as InP in both aqueous and non-aqueous electrolyte. The porous layers exhibiting modified physical properties have been grown and characterized by electrochemical and optical methods.

In 2009, he moved to the Center for Interdisciplinary Nanoscience of Marseille (CINaM). There, he works on electrochemically grown one-dimensional nanostructures such as TiO2 nanotubes and Al2O3 nanoporous membranes. In the present project, these nanostructures are functionalized by Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) for energy production and storage.

Additionally, he is assignment manager at the Center of Competences in Nanoscience and Nanotechnolgy of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (C'Nano PACA) leaded by Dr. Margrit Hanbucken.

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