Paolo Falcaro received his PhD in Materials Engineering from Bologna University in 2006. Since then he has been working in the field of self-assembled materials, film deposition and crystal engineering. During the initial part of his career, he worked in applied research developing nanostructured materials for industry (Civen/Nanofab Italy) using the sol-gel method. Subsequently, he moved to an Australian national research organization (CSIRO, Australia) where he led a research team engineering porous crystals, related inorganic- and bio-composites.

In 2016, he joined Graz University of Technology at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry as a full professor in Bio-based Materials Technology. During the same year, he became an adjunct professor at the University of Adelaide (Australia). In 2017, he received the ERC Consolidator Grant, and in 2024, he was awarded an ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).

His research focuses primarily on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), mesoporous materials, and functional nanoparticles for applications including sensing, environmental remediation, and biotechnology. He works in crystal growth methodologies, sol-gel and self-assembly methods to produce novel composites, and develops positioning technologies for the fabrication of devices based on porous materials.

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