Istituto Italiano di Technologia (Italian Institute of Technology, IIT), was established by the Italian government in 2003 and started to work in October 2005. It has been listed as one of the top 100 rising stars scientific institutes in the world by the journal Nature in 2016 and ranked as the leading national scientific research centre for computer science - mathematics, biology, industrial engineering, and psychology by the scientific evaluation agency Anvur of Italy’s Ministry of Education in 2017.

IIT@Center for Life Nano and Neuro-Science (CLN2S) was born in 2010 and coordinated by the supervisor Prof. Giancarlo Ruocco, who focuses on developing new technologies to investigate neurosciences, from molecular to systems. The laboratory has provided research facilities for 7 ERC project recipients and more than 20 research projects in the national research foundation of Italy and European Commission H2020. It hosts different state-of-the-art facilities and development labs, such as different types of microscopes, in-vivo Brillouin microscopy instrumentation, a wet lab (about 500 square meters), biochemistry fluorophores development, cells, and tissues culture labs, etc.