Member of the US National Academy of Engineering; Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Materials Research Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the European Academy of Sciences; Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bari, Italy; Vice President of the Scientific Council of the National Research Council (CNR), President of ARTI Puglia, the regional agency for innovation and technology transfer, President of the Innovation Center in Single-Molecule Digital Assay, and Former President of the European Materials Research Society.