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Simone Fabiano

Professor, Head of Unit

Principal Investigator at Organic Nanoelectronics, Laboratory of Organic Electronics.

Presentation

Simone Fabiano received his MSc degree in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Catania (Italy) in 2008, working on nanostructured materials for organic photovoltaic cells.

In 2012, he earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Palermo (Italy) with a work aimed at controlling the molecular packing of organic semiconductors for efficient charge transport in thin film transistors and solar cells. From 2010, he also worked as a visiting PhD student in the group of Prof. Maria Antonietta Loi at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands).

In 2012, he carried out postdoctoral research at Linköping University (Sweden) with Prof. Magnus Berggren, and in 2016 he joined the group of Prof. Antonio Facchetti and Prof. Tobin J. Marks at Northwestern University (USA), where he worked as a Marie Curie Fellow and a VINNEMER Fellow until December 2017.

Simone Fabiano is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Science and Technology at Linköping University, where he guides the research activities of the Organic Nanoelectronics group. Since October 2020, he is also a Docent in Applied Physics.

His research interests include the development of organic conductors and mixed ion-electron conductors for printed electronics and neuromorphic computing.

Simone Fabiano while working at Clean Room, Campus Norrköping.
Photo credit: Thor Balkhed

Publications

2026

Ugo Bruno, Matteo Farronato, Alberto Salleo, Simone Fabiano, Francesca Santoro (2026) Figures of merit for neuromorphic devices through biological emulation efficacy NATURE REVIEWS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (Article, review/survey) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44287-026-00321-7
Fabio Cicoira, Magnus Berggren, Erica Colaprico, Reverant Crispin, Isak Engquist, Drew Evans, Simone Fabiano, Jiaxin Fan, Zijing Guo, Guoying Gu, Amali G. Guruge, Ryohei Ikeda, Magnus Jonsson, Laure V Kayser, Sadaf Khoomortezaei, Chi-hyeong Kim, Jinsil Kim, Jeonghun Kwak, Renee Kroon, Junghyun Lee, Jinhao Li, Baoyang Lu, George G. Malliaras, David C. Martin, Masakazu Mukaida, Tatsuya Miyamoto, Stephen J. K. O'Neill, Hiroshi Okamoto, Tetsu Sato, Oren A. Scherman, Alexandra Sandéhn, Daniel Simon, Jeong Han Song, Eleni Stavrinidou, Jun Takeya, Jadranka Travas-Sejdic, Alessandro Troisi, Klas Tybrandt, Qingshuo Wei, Meijing Wang, Shun Watanabe, Yuhang Wu, Bicheng Zhu, Igor Zozoulenko (2026) The 2025 PEDOT roadmap FLEXIBLE AND PRINTED ELECTRONICS, Vol. 11, Article 032501 (Article, review/survey) https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-8585/ae81bf
Sen Zhang, Bingjun Wang, Nicholas Siemons, Iona Anderson, Shijie Wang, Yuxin Kong, Jin-Ting Ye, Xian-Kai Chen, Minning Wang, Xiao Yu, Chiyuan Yang, Yuxiang Li, Simone Fabiano, Jenny Nelson, Wei Ma (2026) Delayed cation dynamics enables dual-doped organic electrochemical transistors with high current sensitivity Nature Communications, Vol. 17, Article 7029 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73762-1
Jichen Lv, Annapia Fratepietro, Ming Shao, Simone Fabiano, Xugang Guo, Antonio Facchetti (2026) Synthesis and applications of conductive polymers NATURE REVIEWS METHODS PRIMERS, Vol. 6, Article 50 (Article, review/survey) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43586-026-00501-7
Dace Gao, Junpeng Ji, Simone De Pra, Miao Xiong, Wenlong Jin, Ugo Bruno, Hanyan Wu, Aleksandr Khudiakov, Andreas W. Erhardt, Chiyuan Yang, Peter J. Schwartz, Luca Sala, Iain McCulloch, Adrica Kyndiah, Mario Caironi, Magnus Berggren, Deyu Tu, Simone Fabiano (2026) An organic artificial cardiomyocyte Nature Communications, Vol. 17, Article 4181 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72584-5

Research

News

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Scientists mimic heart muscle cells with conductive plastic

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in artificially mimicking the ion signalling of heart muscle cells. To succeed, researchers at LiU have used organic electronics. The findings open up for new types of implants and sensors.

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Prestigious chemistry award to Simone Fabiano

This year’s Göran Gustafsson Prize in Chemistry is awarded to LiU Professor Simone Fabiano. His research focuses on organic semiconductors and how so‑called doping can improve conductivity and yield new properties.

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Plastic nerve cells become more advanced – and simpler

An artificial neuron made of conductive plastics that can perform advanced functions similar to those of biological nerve cells has been demonstrated by researchers at LiU.

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