Expedition into the Nanoworld

1. The Integrated State of Global Production Chain.- 2. Bismarck and The German Model of Consensus.- 3. The Meiji Restoration and Value-added Industrial Focus.- 4. The New Rome and the US Exceptionalism.- 5. The Current Entrenched Global Imbalance.- 6. The Balancing Acts by the Large Industrial Economies.

Alberto Diaspro isFull Professor of Applied Physics at the Department of Physics at Genoa University, Scientific Director of the Nanoscopy research program at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), and Academic of the Ligurian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He has served as President of OWLS and EBSA and as Appointed Vice President of ICO. He founded LAMBS (Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy, Bioimaging and Spectroscopy) in 2003. Professor Diaspro is responsible for designing and realizing the first Italian multiphoton microscope (1999) and a hybrid artificial "nanobiorobot" (2000-2005). He directed the design and realization of the first Italian nanoscopy architecture at IIT (2008). His current research is on chromatin organization in the cell nucleus and multimodal optical microscopy and image spectroscopy sensing. He has published more than 350 papers, >16000 citations, and H=60 (source Google Scholar). He is Editor-in-Chief of the international peer revied journal Microscopy Research and Technique. He is SPIE fellow, Senior Member of IEEE and OSA, and Editorial Board Member of the Biophysical Journal. He received the Emily M. Gray Award in 2014 and the Award for Scientific Communication from the Italian Physical Society in 2019. Since 2016, Professor Diaspro is President of the Scientific Council of the "Festival of Science" (www.festivalscienza.it). Since 2021 he is President of SIBPA, the italian society of pure and applied biophysics.