Ciro Chiappini is a Lecturer in Nanomaterials and Biointerfaces at King’s College London since 2016. The mission of his lab is to blend nanotechnology, bioengineering and cell biology to develop functional materials that direct cell behaviour. Ciro was Marie Curie Fellow and Newton International Fellow at Imperial College London from 2011 until 2016, and holds a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin.