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Cinzia Casiraghi is a scientist who is currently Professor in Nanoscience at the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester and National Graphene Institute in the UK.

Biography
Casiraghi's undergraduate studies took place at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, where she obtained a BSc and an MSc in Nuclear Engineering. She read for a PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Cambridge in the UK, and followed this up with a postdoctoral positions both at Cambridge and at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. In 2008 Casiraghi was awarded the Sofja Kovalevskaya Award, a €1.65 million grant awarded to the highest quality junior researchers from outside Germany, for work concerning formation of graphene and carbon nanotubes.

She moved to the University of Manchester in 2010, and was appointed Professor in Nanoscience in 2016, the same year that she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.

Casiraghi's current research includes work on printing structures based on fragments of graphene for photodetection and strain measurements.

Outside of academia, Casiraghi has contributed to popular science segments for BBC Radio 4 and The Guardian.