Since December 1st 2009 Guglielmo Lanzani is head of the Center for Nano Science and Technology of the Italian Institute of Technology, located in Milan. The center has about 100 people involved into three main research lines: Energy, Bio Materials and Printed Electronics. Since August 2011 he is full professor in Physics at Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches basic physics to first year students and organic photophysics to 5th grade students in engineering. From 1988 to 1991 he was graduate student at University of Pavia and University of Utah. He received his PHD from the University of Genova in 1992 presenting a thesis on non linear spectroscopy of conjugated polymers. After Post-Doc in CNR Bologna, he was researcher at University of Sassari (1994-1999). From 1999 to 2011 he was Associate Professor in General Physics at Politecnio di Milano.