Curriculum Vitae
- Education
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Sept ’02 – July ’05 BSc in Chemical Sciences ‘cum laude’, Università di Pavia, Italy Oct ’05 – March ’08 MSc in Advanced Chemical Methodologies ‘cum laude’, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Italy
Main activities: Major in Organic Chemistry. From theory to synthesis and applications of organic and organometallic compounds.
Thesis: “Immobilization of porphyrins on dendrimer through non-covalent interactions”
Jan ’11 – Dec ’14 PhD in Materials Engineering ‘with merit’, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta” under the supervision of Prof. C. Bertarelli
Main activities: Synthesis of organic semiconductors. Crystallization processes for organic semiconductors. Determination of structure-property relationships in organic semiconductors.
Thesis: “Tailoring oligo and polythiophenes for interface optimization in hybrid solar cells”
Nov ’12 Passed the Government/State Exam and licensed as Professional Chemist
- Research
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May ’08 – July ’08 Internship, Chimete s.r.l., Rivalta Scrivia (Alessandria), Italy
Main activities: Scale-up of a process for the production of an active pharmaceutical ingredient.
Sept ’08 – Feb ’09 Leonardo fellow, University of Barcelona, Spain, Faculty of Pharmacy under the supervision of Prof. M. Perez
Main activities: Elaboration of synthetic routes towards the enantioselective production of natural compounds belonging to the Madangamine family.
Mar ’09 – Mar ’10 Research collaborator, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences under the supervision of Prof. E. Iengo
Main activities: Synthesis of supramolecular porphyrin assemblies for photophysical applications. Determination of structure-property relationships.
Apr ’10 – Dec ’10 Research fellow for industrial research, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, Department of Industrial Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. E. Licandro, funded by ENI (Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi – the Italian State Energy company)
Main activities: Synthesis of metal-free luminescent solar concentrators.
Jan ’14 – Aug ’14 Research collaborator, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta”
Main activities: Continuing work on PhD topics (pls. see above).
Sept ’14 – Mar ’19 Postdoctoral fellow, Università di Padova, Italy, Department of Chemical Sciences under the supervision of Prof. E. Menna and Prof. M. Maggini
Main activities: Functionalization of carbon nanomaterials and integration in functional nanocomposites for energy related applications (mainly photovoltaics) and biomedicine (tissue engineering). Full physico-chemical characterization. Analysis of functional properties through collaborations with physicists, engineers and biologists.
Apr ’19 – Present Junior Research Group Leader, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Research Group of Prof. B. Smarsly