Professor Elisa Riedo received her B.S. in physics Summa cum Laude from the University of Milano, Italy, in 1995.She received her Ph.D. in physics in a joint program between the University of Milano and the
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France in 2000. She worked is some of the major research centers in Europe, including
ESRF,
CERN (Switzerland), CoreCom (Politecnico of Milan and Pirelli) (Italy),
Forshungzentrum of Jülich (Germany), and TASC – INFM labs, Trieste (Italy). She then worked at the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as post doctoral fellow. In 2003 she was hired as assistant professor at the
Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Physics, where she was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2009 and to full professor in 2015. From 2016 to summer 2018, she worked as Nanoscience Professor at the
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), as well as a physics professor at the
City College of New York. Since 2018, she is a professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, where she is the director of the picoForce Lab. == Research ==