On Sept. 16, an Italian delegation visited Johns Hopkins University for a technical visit and to tour the Mechanical Engineering of Wet-materials (MEOW) and Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) labs. As part of the visit, Dr. Luigi Nicolais, Professor Emeritus, University of Naples, Former President of National Research Council of Italy (CNR), and President of Materias gave a lecture titled “From Research to Business: Italy’s Perspective.” The lecture highlighted Dr. Nicolais’s success story as the initial AFOSR PI which triggered his future carrier as a scientist. This is part of a long-standing science and technology exchange collaboration between the U.S. and Italy for which the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Italian Embassy in the United States have been instrumental.
