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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

Tom van der Pol, Simone Fabiano (2026) How ions squeeze water out of n-type ladder organic mixed conductors Nature Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Giacomo Forti, Marc-Antoine Stoeckel, Yongjoon Cho, Matteo Palesati, Mark Weber, Liwei Ye, Sein Chung, Robert M. Pankow, Brendan Kerwin, Boseok Kang, Simone Fabiano, Natalie Stingelin, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks (2026) Comparison of Direct Arylation and Zinc-Mediated Polymerizations for Naphthalenediimide-Bithiazole Polymers with Focus on Efficiency, Structure and Green Metrics Chemistry of Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Tom van der Pol, Dongxun Lyu, Zoe Truyens, Vincent Lemaur, Demetra Tsokkou, Arianna Magni, Chiara Musumeci, Hanyan Wu, Junpeng Ji, David Cornil, Chiyuan Yang, Scott T. Keene, Gabriele D'Avino, Alberto Salleo, Natalie Banerji, Clare Grey, David Beljonne, Simone Fabiano (2026) Cation-polymer interactions drive water expulsion and deswelling in n-type ladder organic mixed conductors Nature Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Hanyan Wu, Yingxue An, Luigi Fabiano, Qifan Li, Qingqing Wang, Feng Zhang, Wenlong Jin, Miao Xiong, Junpeng Ji, Ugo Bruno, Grzegorz Greczynski, Grazia Maria Lucia Messina, Xianjie Liu, Chiyuan Yang, Simone Fabiano (2026) Ultrafast Vertical Organic Electrochemical Transistors With Ion-Permeable Conductive Polymer Top Electrodes Advanced Materials, Article PMID 9885358 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Jennifer Gerasimov, Mary Donahue, Dace Gao, Deyu Tu, Simone Fabiano (2026) Electropolymerization of Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors: Fundamentals and Applications in Bioelectronics Chemical Reviews, Vol. 126, p. 28-79 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI

Research

News

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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.

Two pipettes poring liquids on to a disk.

Research for a sustainable future in ten new projects

Photosynthetic materials, two-dimensional noble metals and sustainable semiconductors are some of the projects at LiU that have been granted funding from the research programme Wallenberg initiative materials science for sustainability – WISE.

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