Giuseppe Maruccio (1978) is Full Professor in Physics of Matter at University of Salento and head of the Omnics Research Group which comprises researchers with different backgrounds from physics to life sciences working in close collaboration to foster research in cross-disciplinary areas with applications spanning from -onics (electronics, spintronics and magnonics) to -omics technologies (genomics, proteomics and cellomics). Omnics laboratories are the Italian node of the European Infrastructure on Magnetism. G. Maruccio is author of more than 130 publications and 4 patents (h-index 26, citations >2000). From 2014 to 2019, he was Research Delegate for the Rector for the Univ. of Salento.