Enrico Domenico Lemma

Born in 1989, Dr. Enrico D. Lemma holds an Assistant Professor position in Materials Science and Technology at the Department of Engineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma.

His academic background includes a MS degree in Materials Engineering at Università del Salento (2014) and a PhD in Materials and Structural Engineering and Nanotechnologies at Università del Salento (2018).

In 2019, he was awarded a two-year Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany), to develop novel strategies based on DNA coupling for triggering selective cell adhesion on 3D micro-structures. In 2025, he was awarded a Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS) Starting Grant from the the Italian Ministry of Research to develop a 5-year project on innovative solutions for multiphoton lithography for biomedical applications.

His main research interests include nonlinear absorption optical systems (eg, multi-photon polymerization) for studying cell mechanobiology in 3D, and (bio)chemical and mechanical properties of innovative materials for 3D printing. He currently develops models to merge 3D microfabrication with microfluidics and organ-on-chip technologies.

ace of 01.02.2026

___Postgraduate activity______________________________________________________________________

[20.12.22-Present] – Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

Assistant Professor (Fixed-term researcher ex art. 24, c. 3, lett. (a) of L. 240/2010) at Faculty of Engineering – SSD: ING-IND/22

[01.09.25-01.12.25] – RWTH Aachen University – Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany)

Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation Visiting Researcher – Institute of Bioelectronics

[01.03.22-19.12.22] – Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

Researcher at Dept. of Engineering, Division of Tissue Engineering and Chemistry for Engineering – SSD: ING-IND/34

[01.10.19-31.03.22] - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany)

Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow at Zoological Institute.

Cluster of Excellence of the German Federal and State Governments: “3DMM2O: 3D matter made to order”, External Collaborator.

[01.04.18-30.09.19] - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany)

Post-doctoral Researcher at Zoological Institute.

[01.12.14-30.11.17] - Italian Institute of Technology, IIT and University of Salento, Italy

PhD Fellow at Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies.

PhD Thesis : « Three-dimensional Microfabrication via Direct Laser Writing Technologies for Advances in Mechanobiology of Cancer Cells » defended on 21.05.2018.

___ Funding and Scholarships________________________________________________________________

• Italian Science Fund Starting Grant, Italian Ministry of Research, project funding 1 M€ - Call 2025.

• Young Researchers Fellowship of the Italian Ministry of Research, project funding €150k – Call 2022.

• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (2019-2022), project supporting funding €25k.

• Seal of Excellence for the Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship - Call 2020.

• Seal of Excellence for the Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship - Call 2018.

• DAAD Short-term Research Grant Fellowship, year 2018, total funding €7k - withdrawn for full position as post-doctoral researcher at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.

• PhD Fellowship from the University of Salento, years 2014-2017, total funding €36.

___ Distinctions and Memberships___________________________________________________________

• Best oral presentation award at the 9th Workshop of AICIng (Italian Association of Chemistry for Engineering), Ancona (I), 16―17 June 2022.

• Licensed as a Profession Engineer (as required by Italian Law), 2014.

• Intermediate Selection for the "Alfiere del Lavoro" Distinction, by the President of the Italian Republic, 2008.

• Secretary of the Italian Society for Organs on Chip (SIOOC), since 2024.

• Board Member of Associazione Italiana Alexander von Humboldt, since 2022.

• Member of SIGN eV, since 2025.

• Member of Innovitalia, since 2021.

• Member of Deutsche Gesellschaft der Humboldtianer eV, since 2019.

___Undergraduate education___________________________________________________________

[26.01.12-16.04.14] - University of Salento (Lecce, Italy)

MSc in Materials Engineering — Grade 110/110 cum laude

[01.09.08-25.01.12] - University of Salento (Lecce, Italy)

BSc in Industrial Engineering — Grade 110/110 cum laude

___Language skills____________________________________________________________________

mother tongue

English : proficiency (C2 level according to CEFR, Certificate of Proficiency in English, Univ. of Cambridge, 2007, certificate No.0018549530)

German : advanced (C1 level according to CEFR, Goethe Zertifikat C1, Goethe Institut)

French: autonomous (B1 level according to CEFR) 

The updated list of publications and citations can be found here:

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HZOY9T4AAAAJ&hl=it

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57188643149