Franco Cacialli is an Italian physicist affiliated with the University College London.[1] He was awarded the status of Fellow[2] in the American Physical Society,[3] after he was nominated by the Division of Materials Physics in 2009,[4] for "his significant contributions to the science and technology of organic semiconductors and related applications, and especially for seminal contributions to the scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) assisted lithography of organic semiconductor nanostructures.
Cacialli is a co-director of the London Institute for Advanced Light Technologies[5]