Michele is a Professor of Chemistry at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, NY, which is part of the larger City University of NY system. He’s the Director of the M.S. Program in Nanoscience at the CUNY Graduate Center and leads the Energy Nanotechnology and Materials Chemistry team. Michele received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Padua in Italy and has over 20 years of experience in energy materials research.