Nanotechnologist Valeria Nicolosi has received more than €10 million in funding since 2006 and is now a principal investigator at a €60m centre for advanced materials at Trinity College Dublin. She tells Safya Khan-Ruf how winning European funding kick-started her career.
What do you study?
I work with nanomaterials, which are so flat we say they are two-dimensional. There are more than 500 materials that can be thinned down to the thickness of one atom and that then behave differently and unexpectedly—their properties change. For example, when you thin down graphite, it becomes extremely conductive and stronger than steel.
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