Professor Giovanni Costantini

Professor Giovanni Costantini

School of Chemistry
Professor of Physical Chemistry

Contact details

Telephone
01214143155
Email
g.costantini@bham.ac.uk
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Professor Giovanni Costantini joined the University 麻豆精选 as Chair in Physical Chemistry in June 2022. Prior to this appointment he has been Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Warwick.

Professor Costantini has published over 100 research papers in scientific journals as well as reviews and book chapters in the fields of surface nanostructuring by ion etching, self-organised semiconductor quantum dots, supramolecular self-assembly at surfaces, 2D metal-organic networks, chiral recognition, electronic and structural properties of metal-organic interfaces, molecular corrosion inhibitors, structure and assembly of conjugated polymers, interaction of small biomolecules with surfaces.

He has received major grants from ERC, EPSRC, Leverhulme Trust and the Royal Society.

He leads the .

Qualifications

  • PhD in Physics, University of Genova, 2000
  • Laurea in Physics, University of Genova, 1994

Postgraduate supervision

We always welcome applications from those interested in pursuing either a PhD or Postdoc position in the group.
Please contact Professor Costantini via the contact details above.

Other activities

  • Director of the X-ray Photoemission Research Technology Platform, University of Warwick (2014-18)
  • Committee of the Solid Surfaces Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2014-)
  • Committee of the Thin Film and Surfaces Group of the Institute of Physics (2008-15)
  • Co-founder and shareholder of a still trading spinout company, Dodecon Nanotechnology GmbH (2005-)
  • Referee for Research Councils in UK (EPSRC, BBSRC, Leverhulme Trust), Germany (DFG), Austria (FWF), Italy (MIUR), Estonia (ETF)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Rosas Villalva, D, Derewjanko, D, Zhang, Y, Liu, Y, Bates, A, Sharma, A, Han, J, Gibert-Roca, M, Arteaga, OZ, Jang, S, Moro, S, Costantini, G, Gu, X, Kemerink, M & Baran, D 2025, '', Nature Materials.

Ferreira, RR, Mosca, D, Moreira, T, Wakchaure, VC, Romano, G, Stopin, A, Pinheiro, C, Luci, AMT, Perdig茫o, LMA, Costantini, G, Amenitsch, H, Laia, CAT, Parola, AJ, Maggini, L & Bonifazi, D 2024, '', ACS Applied Engineering Materials, vol. 2, no. 11, pp. 2640-2650.

Moro, S, Spencer, SEF, Lester, DW, Nu虉bling, F, Sommer, M & Costantini, G 2024, '', ACS Nano, vol. 18, no. 18, pp. 11655-11664.

Coker, JF, Moro, S, Gertsen, AS, Shi, X, Pearce, D, van der Schelling, MP, Xu, Y, Zhang, W, Andreasen, JW, Snyder, CR, Richter, LJ, Bird, MJ, McCulloch, I, Costantini, G, Frost, JM & Nelson, J 2024, '', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 121, no. 37, e2403879121.

Liu, Z, Vanderspikken, J, Mantegazza, P, Moro, S, Hamid, M, Mertens, S, Van den Brande, N, Lutsen, L, Lemaur, V, Beljonne, D, Costantini, G, Vandewal, K, Van Mele, B, Maes, W & Goderis, B 2024, '', Advanced Functional Materials. ,

Hobson, A, Hussain, H, Mousley, PJ, Duncan, DA, Braim, M, Costantini, G, Nicklin, C & Woodruff, DP 2024, '', ACS Omega, vol. 9, no. 29, pp. 32193-32200.

Surgailis, J, Flagg, LQ, Richter, LJ, Druet, V, Griggs, S, Wu, X, Moro, S, Ohayon, D, Kousseff, CJ, Marks, A, Maria, IP, Chen, H, Moser, M, Costantini, G, McCulloch, I & Inal, S 2024, '', Advanced Materials.

Mousley, PJ, Rochford, LA, Hussain, H, Moro, S, Ding, P, Bell, GR, Costantini, G, Nicklin, C & Woodruff, DP 2023, '', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 127, no. 8, pp. 4266-4272.

Ding, P, Braim, M, Hobson, AL, Rochford, LA, Ryan, PTP, Duncan, DA, Lee, T-L, Hussain, H, Costantini, G, Yu , M & Woodruff, DP 2023, '', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 127, no. 42, pp. 20903-20910.

Sohail, B, Blowey, PJ, Rochford, LA, Ryan, PTP, Duncan, DA, Lee, TL, Starrs, P, Costantini, G, Woodruff, DP & Maurer, RJ 2023, '', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 127, no. 5, pp. 2716-2727.

Vanderspikken, J, Liu, Z, Wu, X, Beckers, O, Moro, S, Quill, TJ, Liu, Q, Goossens, A, Marks, A, Weaver, K, Hamid, M, Goderis, B, Nies, E, Lemaur, V, Beljonne, D, Salleo, A, Lutsen, L, Vandewal, K, Van Mele, B, Costantini, G, Van den Brande, N & Maes, W 2023, '', Advanced Functional Materials.

Turano, M, Walker, M, Grillo, F, Gattinoni, C, Hunt, G, Kirkman, P, Richardson, NV, Baddeley, CJ & Costantini, G 2022, '', Corrosion Science, vol. 207, 110589.

Mousley, PJ, Rochford, LA, Ryan, PTP, Blowey, P, Lawrence, J, Duncan, DA, Hussain, H, Sohail, B, Lee, TL, Bell, GR, Costantini, G, Maurer, RJ, Nicklin, C & Woodruff, DP 2022, '', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 126, no. 16, pp. 7346-7355.

Marks, A, Chen, X, Wu, R, Rashid, RB, Jin, W, Paulsen, BD, Moser, M, Ji, X, Griggs, S, Meli, D, Wu, X, Bristow, H, Strzalka, J, Gasparini, N, Costantini, G, Fabiano, S, Rivnay, J & McCulloch, I 2022, '', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 144, no. 10, pp. 4642-4656.

Moro, S, Siemons, N, Drury, O, Warr, DA, Moriarty, TA, Perdig茫o, LMA, Pearce, D, Moser, M, Hallani, RK, Parker, J, McCulloch, I, Frost, JM, Nelson, J & Costantini, G 2022, '', ACS Nano, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 21303-21314.