Curriculum Vitae

Academic Experience

2023 - University Assistant, University of Graz, AT 
2021 - 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, Hewitt Foundation Fellowship, The Scripps Research Institute, USA (Prof. Dr. Phil S. Baran)
2020 Postdoctoral Researcher, Eli Lilly Research Award Program, University of Amsterdam, NL (Prof. Dr. Timothy Noël)

 

Education

2016 - 2020 Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), NL, cum laude
2013 - 2016 Master of Science, Organic Chemistry, University of Pisa, IT, 110/110 cum laude
2010 - 2013 Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, University of Pisa, IT, 110/110 cum laude

 

Prizes and Awards

2025SCI Organic Chemistry Research Award for Environment - Young Section
2023Habilitation for Associate Professorship in Organic Chemistry, MIUR - Italy
 Habilitation for Associate Professorship in Industrial Chemistry, MIUR - Italy
2022CAS Future Leaders
2021PhD AMCEL Award
 SCI Doctoral Thesis Award for Organic Chemistry Methodology
 IUPAC-Zhejiang NHU International Award for Advancements in Green Chemistry
 IUPAC-SOLVAY International Award For Young Chemists

Grants and Fellowships

2025ERC Get Started! Grant
2024Doctoral Scholarship Award 
2024Lilly Research Award Program
2024Unkonventionelle Forschung (UFO)
2021 - 2023Hewitt Foundation Fellowship for Medical Research

 

Conference Participation

2025Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry: A Sustainable Technology for Any Scale (Invited Speaker) - National Congress Organic Chemistry Division 2025, 21th - 25th September 2025, Cagliari, IT
2025Automated Electrochemical Flow Platforms: Enabling Technology for Chemistry Applications (Keynote Speaker) - Italian Flow Chemistry Symposium 2025, 8th - 9th May 2025, Bari, IT
2025Merging Automation and Electrochemistry to Accelerate Medicinal Chemistry Applications (Invited Speaker) - Flow Chemistry Europe 2025, 3rd - 4th April 2025, Malaga, ES
2024Merging Automation and Electrochemistry to Accelerate Medicinal Chemistry Applications (Invited Speaker) - Automated Synthesis Forum, 11th - 12th November 2024, Oxford, UK
2024Electrochemical Automation to Accelerate Medicinal Chemistry Discoveries - Biobased Chemistry and Technology Chemietage, 23st - 25th September 2024, Graz, AT
2023Electrochemical functionalization of heteroarenes through decarboxylative arylation enabled by silver nanoparticle modified electrodes - The Walter Eckhart Hewitt Fellows Symposium, 26th September 2023, La Jolla, USA
2022Electrochemical decarboxylative arylation enabled by silver nanoparticle modified electrodes - ACS Fall 2022, 21st - 25th August 2022, Chicago, USA
2021New synthetic methods enabled by photochemistry and electrochemistry in flow (Invited Speaker - Amcel PhD Award) - Amcel Symposium, 28th October 2021, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
New synthetic methods enabled by photochemistry and electrochemistry in flow (Invited Speaker - IUPAC-Zhejiang NHU International Award) - IUPAC CCCE 2021 - 48th World Chemistry Congress & 104th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, 13th - 20th August 2021, Montreal, Canada
2020Photochemical activation of gaseous alkanes in continuous-flow - The Netherlands’ Catalysis and Chemistry Conference, 2nd - 4th March 2020, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
2019Combining electrochemical methodology development with flow technology - The best of two worlds? - CHemistry as INnovative Science, 10th - 11th December 2019, Veldhoven, The Netherlands
2018Photochemical C(sp3) Oxidation in a Continuous-Flow Microreactor - The Netherlands’ Catalysis and Chemistry Conference, 5th - 7th March 2018, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands