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Vittorio Pellegrini holds a PhD degree in condensed matter physics and he is currently a research scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genova and director of the IIT Graphene Labs. He is the chair of the executive committee of the European flagship project on graphene. He is also leader of the grapheneflagship work-package ENERGY STORAGE. His current interests focus on the exploitation of two-dimensional crystals for energy devices and for applications in composites and on the realization of artificial honeycomb lattices by nanofabrication. Vittorio Pellegrini has published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers and he is co-inventor of several patents. He gave more than 80 invited/keynote talks. He was Fellow of the Italian Academy at Columbia University (USA) in 2008, Winner of Campisano prize for condensed matter physics of the Italian National Research Council in 2008. He has been the coordinator and local coordinator of several European projects. He is co-funder of the start-up BeDimensional (www.bedimensional.it). Vittorio Pellegrini is also active in scientific divulgation. He has published several articles for the general public in Italian newspapers and routinely gives talks at science festivals and at other public events.