PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
11/2023-current: Assistant Professor Senior (RTD-B) of Industrial Chemistry (03/C2, SSD CHIM/04) at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Genova (DCCI, UNIGE).
03/2020-10/2023: Assistant Professor Junior (RTD-A) of Industrial Chemistry (03/C2, SSD CHIM/04) at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Genova (DCCI, UNIGE).
02/2019-02/2020: Postdoctoral Fellowship (DCCI, UNIGE) within the framework of the Project PIVOT: Sulfur- Based Polymers from Inverse Vulcanization as High Refractive Index Materials for All-Polymer Planar Photonic Crystals.
10/2018-12/2018: Teaching Assistant - Tecniche di controllo dei processi industriali - Laurea Magistrale in Chimica Industriale (DCCI, UNIGE).
12/2015-12/2018: Early Stage Researcher - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action European Training Network SYNCHRONICS; SupramolecularlY eNgineered arCHItectures for optoelectRonics and photONIC (DCCI, UNIGE).
06/2010-08/2010: Research Internship, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU, Singapore.
EDUCATION
2017 - PhD - Sustainable Earth Program (Interdisciplinary Graduate School, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Energy Research Institute at NTU, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) on polymer distributed Bragg reflectors for label-free vapor sensing. Declared equivalent to the title of Dottore di Ricerca with D.M. MIUR 0001795, 11-07-2018.
2012 - M.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry (UNIGE). Thesis on hybrid polymer-inorganic nanocomposites for the enhancement of the dielectric contrast in polymer multilayered photonic crystals.
2009 - B.Sc. in Chemical Technologies (UNIGE). Thesis on material assets and economic impacts of a new residue oil solvent deasphalting on the overall cycle of oil refining at ENI R&M.
2004 - Chief Technician Diploma in Industrial Chemistry, Industrial Institute G. Cardano, Pavia, Italy.
PROJECTS
FIS 2
LOOP Fluoride Recovery from Persistent Fluoroalkyl Pollutants with Tandem Solar Paints (Principal Investigator UniGe) - www.loop-project.it
PRIN 2022
WATERONIC Water remediation based on nanostructured photonic materials. (Principal Investigator UniGE)
POR FESR 2014-2020 - Asse 1 - Azione 1.2.4 - Bando 2020
MERITI (2021) - Materiali organici biodegradabili per lo sviluppo di packaging intelligente. (Principal Investigator UniGE)
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
MA-3803 (2018) - GI-WAXS study of vapor induced Poly(p-phenylene oxide) crystallization in photonic crystals sensors. (Principal Investigator)
MA 3272 (2017) - Vapor induced Poly(p-phenylene oxide) crystallization in selective photonic crystals sensors. (Participant)
Bando 2016 per progetti di ricerca presentati da Enti di ricerca genovesi – Fondazione Compagnia San Paolo
Polimeri a Base Zolfo da Inverse Vulcanization come Materiali ad Elevato Indice di Rifrazione per Cristalli Fotonici Planari (http://www.ismac.cnr.it/portfolio-posts/pivotita) (Participant)
Horizon 2020 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action European Training Network
G. A. 643238 - SYNCHRONICS: SupramolecularlY eNgineered arCHItectures for optoelectRonics and photONIC. (https://synchronics-etn.eu/). (Participant)
TEACHING
2025-2026
I MODULE PROJECT BASED LABORATORY ON ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC (OPV) CELL (cod. 104100) - LABORATORY ON DEVICE BUILDING- ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC (OPV) CELL - CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIE DEI MATERIALI - Advanced Materials Science and Technology
POLYMER MANUFACTURING: FROM CLASSICAL PROCESSING TO 3D PRINTING - Master Of Science - SUSTAINABLE POLYMER AND PROCESS CHEMISTRY
CIRCULAR ECONOMY PROCESSES FOR PLASTICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Master Of Science - SUSTAINABLE POLYMER AND PROCESS CHEMISTRY
2024-2025
I MODULE PROJECT BASED LABORATORY ON ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC (OPV) CELL (cod. 104100) - LABORATORY ON DEVICE BUILDING- ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC (OPV) CELL - CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIE DEI MATERIALI
MODELLIZZAZIONE DELLA RISPOSTA OTTICA DI FILM POLIMERICI E COATINGS INDUSTRIALI (cod. 108104) - CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIA DEI MATERIALI
POLYMER MANUFACTURING: FROM CLASSICAL PROCESSING TO 3D PRINTING - Master Of Science - SUSTAINABLE POLYMER AND PROCESS CHEMISTRY
2023-2024
I MODULE PROJECT BASED LABORATORY ON ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC (OPV) CELL (cod. 104100) - LABORATORY ON DEVICE BUILDING- ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC (OPV) CELL - CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - SCIENZA E INGEGNERIA DEI MATERIALI
POLYMERS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (cod. 101883) CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - CHIMICA INDUSTRIALE - UniGe
MODELLIZZAZIONE DELLA RISPOSTA OTTICA DI FILM POLIMERICI E COATINGS INDUSTRIALI (cod. 108104) - CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIA DEI MATERIALI
2022-2023
I MODULE PROJECT BASED LABORATORY ON ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC (OPV) CELL (cod. 104100) - LABORATORY ON DEVICE BUILDING- ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC (OPV) CELL - CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - SCIENZA E INGEGNERIA DEI MATERIALI
LAVORAZIONE INDUSTRIALE DI MATERIALI POLIMERICI (cod. 104853) - CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - CHIMICA INDUSTRIALE
2021-2022
POLYMERS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (cod. 101883) CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - CHIMICA INDUSTRIALE - UniGe
2020 - 2021
LAVORAZIONE INDUSTRIALE DI MATERIALI POLIMERICI (cod. 104853) CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - CHIMICA INDUSTRIALE- UniGe
POLYMERS FOR ELECTRONICS AND ENERGY HARVESTING (cod. 94802) CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - SCIENZA E INGEGNERIA DEI MATERIALI- UniGe
PRINCIPI DI SCIENZA DEI POLIMERI (cod. 98597) CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - CHIMICA INDUSTRIALE - UniGe
TECNICHE DI CONTROLLO DEI PROCESSI INDUSTRIALI (cod. 61908) CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - CHIMICA INDUSTRIALE- UniGe
2019 - 2020
POLYMERS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (cod. 101883) CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE - CHIMICA INDUSTRIALE- UniGe
FELLOWSHIP
2015 MSCA Early-Stage Researcher Fellowship.
2012 SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL AWARD (SINGA) conferred by A*STAR, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University for doctoral studies.
AWARDS
2021 SCIENCE Editor’s choice (Science, 371, 6525, 138, 2021) on JACS 142, 20883,2020.
2020 National qualification as associate professor in Industrial Chemistry (Italian Law 240/2010).
2019 Italian Association for Macromolecular Science and Technologies (AIM) award forconference participation.
2020 Advanced Optical Materials Top Downloaded Paper 2018-2019 for Advanced Optical Materials 2018, 6, 1800730. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201800730
2018 Italian Association for Macromolecular Science and Technologies (AIM) award for conference partecipation.
2014 Best Poster Presentation, EMRS Spring Meeting (Lille, France) Symposium F.
2011 Honorary mention Giovane Talento Ligure, Camera del Commercio della Regione Liguria, UNIGE, Italy.
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2018-23 Scientific and Organizing Committee - MACROGIOVANI, Editions: 2023 (Catania) 2022 (Firenze) 2021 (Genova); 2020 (online), 2019 (Naples), 2018 (Salerno). (40-50 Participants).
2021 Scientific and Organizing Committee - PIVOT - Sulfur-Based Polymers from Inverse Vulcanization as High Refractive Index Materials for All-Polymer Planar Photonic Crystals (Expected participants 30).
2021 Scientific and Organizing Committee - XVII Convegno di Reologia (Expected participants 50).
2018 Organizing Committee - Polymer Crystallization Workshop (50 participants).
2018 Organizing Committee - Polymer Crystallization Workshop (50 participants).
2017 Organizing Committee - PRESENCE, Phd students as a bRidge bEtween SciencE aNd society (50 participants).
2015 Organizing Committee - 22º Convegno Nazionale AIM. (120 participants).
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2020-24 Member of the Orientation Committee of the MSc Course in Industrial Chemistry, DCCI-UNIGE.
2020-24 Board member of MSc in Industrial Chemistry and BSc in Chemical Technologies, DCCI-UNIGE.
2021 Selection committee for 2 “starting” Research Fellowship position, DCCI-UNIGE.
2020 Selection committee for the H2020-MSCA-EID "REPOL".
2020 Selection committee for a “consolidator” Research Fellowship position, DCCI-UNIGE.
ACTIVE AND RECENT COLLABORATIONS
Prof. Maddalena Patrini, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy (Links 1, 2, 3, 4).
Prof. Michele Laus, Università Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy (Link 1, 2).
Prof. Paola Rizzo, Prof. Gaetano Guerra, Dipartimento di Chimica e Biologia, Università di Salerno, Salerno, Italy (Link).
Prof. Cesare Soci, Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, SPMS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Link 1, 2, 3).
Dr. Francesco Di Stasio, Nanochemistry Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy (Link 1, 2, 3).
Prof. Frank Würthner, Center for Nanosystems Chemistry and Bavarian Polymer Institute (BPI), Wurzburg, Germany (Link).
Prof. Franco Cacialli, Department of Physics and Astronomy and London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, United Kingdom (Link).
Prof. Andrea Pucci, Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Universita` di Pisa, Pisa, Italy (Link).
Dr. Giuseppe M. Paternò, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Nano Science and Technology, Milano, Italy (Link).
Prof. Markus Antonietti, Department of Colloid Chemistry Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interface, Potsdam, Germany (Link 1, 2).
SUPERVISION
PostDoc - Dr. Andrea Lanfranchi - Polymer and Inorganics for Photocatalisys (PRIN 2022)
PostDoc - Dr. Heba Megahd - polymer materials for photonics
PhD - Andrea Escher - Bioderived and Biodegradable polymer photonic crystals for smart packaging technologies
PhD - Simone Bertucci (Co-supervision) structure for single photon emission
PhD - Mauro Garbarino (Co-supervision) structure for chiral emission
PhD - Daniela Di Fonzo (Co-supervision) polymer meta-materials
PhD - Christian Tavella - multilayered structured for pollutant sorption and recognition
MSc - Francesco Doccini - porous Bismuth oxyde thin films for water remediation
MSc - Fabiano Martorelli - porous metal oxyde alloys thin films for water remediation
MSc - Margherita Peragallo - Phtonic Crystals for water remediation
MSc - Laura Magnasco - Phtonic Crystals Sensors
MSc - Andrea Lanfranchi - Phtonic Crystals for thermal Shielding.
MSc - Simone Bertucci - High dielectric contras hybrid polymer inorganic photonic structures.
MSc - Lorenzo Friscione - High dielectric contras hybrid polymer inorganic photonic structures for light management
BSc - Giada Loscalzo - dip-flame coating of metal oxide thin films
BSc - Irene Pastorino - commercial and innovative technologies for the detection of SARS-CoV-2
BSc - Fabiano Martorelli - polymer waste up-cycling into functional photonic structures
Extracurricular Trainee - Dario Castellaro - Polymer photonic structures for the detection of SARS-CoV-2
Visiting Researcher - Dr. Giovanni Mafredi