Giuseppe Battaglia

Beppe (short for Giuseppe) Battaglia is an ICREA Research Professor and group leader at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia, part of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology. Beppe is an honorary professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University College London (UCL) and visiting professor at West China Hospital Sichuan University. Beppe holds a Laurea in Chemical Engineering from the Univerisity of Palermo and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Sheffield. Before moving to Barcelona, Beppe held positions at UCL (Professor of Molecular Bionics 2013-2022) and the University of Sheffield (Professor of Synthetic Biology (2011-2013), Senior Lecturer (2009-2011) and Lecturer (2006-2009) in Bionanotechnology. Beppe’s research focuses on how molecules, macromolecules, viruses, vesicles, and whole cells traffic across the body barriers. The group combines novel microscopic tools with theoretical and computational physics to study biological transport from single molecules, cell membranes, and whole organisms. The acquired knowledge is thus translated to bioengineer novel nanomedicines, combining soft matter physics with synthetic chemistry. Beppe is the co-founder and CSO of the UCL spin-out Somaserve ltd based in Cambridge, UK.