Sergio Pizzini coordinated at the European level the Nanophoto Project within the 6th FW. This Project dealt with the modellization and experimental exploitation of a process for the deposition of thin films of nanocrystalline silicon using the Low Energy Plasma enhanced CVD technique. This Project was considered by the Commission one of the best and successful Research projects of the 6^th FW.

He is member of the MRS and of the E-MRS and of the Scientific Committee of the GADEST Conferences. He has served as Program Co-Chairman of the Gadest 2007 Conference and as Symposium Co-Chairman of the E-MRS 2008 and 2010 Symposia on Advanced Silicon Materials. He has also served as Session Chairman at the 25th European PV Conference hold in Valencia and as Chairman of the Session on Crystalline Silicon at the LCES 2011 World Conference hold in Dalian (China), October 2011. He was invited to give a plenary lecture at the ICAM 2011 International Conference hold in Coimbatore (India) December 12-16 (2011).

Presently he is R&D consultant in the field of materials for the PV industry and is associated to the INOVA Lab (Padova-Italy).