Luciano Colombo received his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Pavia (I) in 1989. In 1999, he was appointed associated professor at the University of Cagliari (I) where, in 2002, he became full professor of theoretical condensed matter physics. He has been a Fellow of the "Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere'' (Milano, I) since 2015. He has been the principal investigator of several research projects addressing solid-state and materials physics topics, and is the author or co-author of more than 280 scientific articles and nine books.