Gianni Ciofani is a Senior Researcher Tenured at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Principal Investigator of the Smart Bio-Interfaces Research Unit (since 2017) and Coordinator of the Centre for Materials Interfaces (since 2021). He has been an Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Torino (Torino, Italy; 2015-2019) and a Visiting Professor at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan; 2021) and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 2024).

His main research interests concern smart nanomaterials for nanomedicine, microphysiological systems, and nanomedicine in altered gravity conditions.